Sentences with phrase «smaller than the control»

After about a week, the tumor treated in this manner was two - thirds smaller than the control tumor.

Moreover, the number of dogs that exhibited these reactions was significantly smaller than control.

Not exact matches

«ISIS - K controls virtually nothing other than a small segment of territory.

One of Canada's most dynastic companies, the Irving group got its start back in the 1920s, when K.C. opened a small service station in Bouctouche, N.B. Nearly 100 years on, the family controls more than 250 enterprises scattered across Canada and the northeastern United States.

Sales plunged and KFC overhauled quality controls, cutting ties with more than 1,000 small poultry suppliers.

The top five chipmakers control more than 90 percent of the global NAND chip market after years of boom - and - bust squeezed out smaller players.

It also means that there is some positive selectivity into fatherhood, thus the bonus with human capital controls is slightly smaller than the bonus without the controls.

Consolidation among smaller carriers could be a boon for passengers, if it means they can make enough money to invest in better services, rather than focus solely on controlling costs.

While this means they can control a larger amount of assets with a smaller amount of money, traders have the ability to lose more than the value of their assets and cash.

As we reduce the small business tax rate to 9 percent from 11 percent, we will ensure that Canadian - Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC) status is not used to reduce personal income tax obligations for high - income earners rather than supporting small businesses.

(Reuters)-- Action - camera maker GoPro Inc's first - quarter revenue beat expectancies and it reported a smaller - than - expected loss on Thursday, profiting from competitive advertising of its cameras and controlling bills.

Since you can control large amounts of a commodity with a relatively small amount of money on margin, you can leverage your portfolio to take advantage of price swings in the commodity without having to actually take delivery of thousands of gallons of gasoline — something that is impractical for everyone other than institutions (such as refiners, airlines, transportation fleets, gasoline retailers, etc.).

Smaller than 150, it gets overly controlling — this is where the «cult» rep comes from.

Socialism and communism are based on the principle that the means of producing goods and providing services — such as all factories and companies — should be owned publicly and controlled and planned by a centralized organization rather than being controlled by members of a small class of wealthy people.

In its spread, Christianity was given much smaller financial assistance by governments, and was less under state control than in the preceding period.

If it is objected that production in and for small communities would be less efficient than large - scale centralized production, it could be answered, first, that when the true costs of transportation are calculated, this may not be true, and second, that efficiency in that sense is less important than a good life in a self - reliant community that has some control over its own destiny.

I probably want to say more, but I have to go help my wife with her treatments for cancer where something smaller than her and inside is trying to control her and we are seeking to put things back in balance.

Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small - scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don't appear to reduce red tape for small - scale commercial farmers, nor homesteaders or hobbyists, and yet they make it easier than ever before to set up a 1000 - cattle feedlot.

Team this with the dwarfing average attendances, youth dependency, the «50 + 1 rule» (which consists of members having to own at least 51 % of a club so that a single entity can not take control), clubs paying less than 50 % of their revenue on player wages and the sheer attraction of football quality to the fans, and it is clear to see why the Germans can breathe easily, creating a yearly turnover of around $ 2bn with small annual losses now and again (two since 2003).

Verbal IQ deficits among children of mothers with lower education compared with those who completed university were somewhat smaller in the intervention group than in the control group: 5.2 (95 % CI: 3.1, 7.3) vs 6.5 (95 % CI: 5.6, 7.4) points deficit among mothers with partial university education and 10.7 (95 % CI: 8.4, 12.9) vs 11.7 (95 % CI: 10.2, 13.2) points among those with secondary education or less.

No socioeconomic inequalities were observed in the control group, whereas a small gradient was seen in the intervention group (RD = 0.06, 95 % CI: 0.03, 0.09 for mothers with partial university education; RD = 0.10, 95 % CI: 0.06, 0.14 for mothers with no more than secondary education).

The differences were small, though — in the latter study, the babies spent eight minutes less in REM sleep, on average, in those first few hours than babies in the control group did.

I'm going with the Baby - led Weaning research that shows that kids do better with bigger pieces at first that they can control and put in the fronts of their mouths, than with small pieces or purees that are shoved into the back.

I feel that I have better control than I would with a baby bath tub where I have to hunch over on the floor bathing her (we don't have really much counter space to put a baby tub on because we have a small house).

A small 2013 study reported that infants with colic showed lower diversity and stability in their gut microflora than the control group.

Its political system is actually similar to ancient Roman Republic's system: a small group of elites, rather than just one dictator, controls the entire country.

While control can shift in a single election, it tends to do so in smaller increments than in the House.

Supporters of New York's gun control measures — among the most restrictive in the U.S. — held a smaller event inside the Statehouse to announce several new bills, including one that would prohibit anyone from buying more than one gun a month.

Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a small dam less than 20 miles from New York City two years ago, sparking concerns that reached to the White House, according to former and current U.S. officials and experts familiar with the previously undisclosed incident.

If the leaders remain as they are now at the next election (which YouGov ask as a control question) people's voting intentions would be CON 34, LAB 41, LDEM 9 (when asked this way it consistently shows a slightly smaller Labour lead than usual — probably the effect of mentioning Ed Miliband in the question).

By smaller margins, they want to keep and improve, rather than repeal and replace, Obamacare (by 18 points); consider themselves gun control supporters, rather than 2nd Amendment supporters (by 15 points); and, want the federal government to do more to stimulate the economy, rather than lessening its role (by nine points).

Voice Coil Size: A larger voice coil offers better audio, has better control over the audio cone, and can handle greater power than a smaller one.

Now, using ultrasonic speakers, they can levitate things with more control than ever before, moving small objects in three dimensions even with the whole array turned upside down.

After controlling for size — big dogs tend to die younger than small ones — Careau's team found the most obedient breeds, such as German shepherds, poodles and bichon frises, tended to be the longest lived, while hard - to - train dogs such as pomeranians and beagles were more likely to die younger.

When injected with cancer cells, animals housed there developed tumors 80 % smaller than those in control mice, or no tumors at all.

«The shift in assertiveness is small — HEART participants were 5 percent more assertive than the control group — but one of the key findings here is that a short, one - time intervention can have a measureable impact on behavior,» Widman says.

Now, one of the first randomized, controlled tests of a large - scale economic aid program has shown small but encouraging effects for people living on less than $ 1.25 per day.

Using circuits that control photons rather than electrons, individual components can be made far smaller and support immense information bandwidths.

They managed to switch this plasmon propagation on and off, simply by applying an electrical voltage, demonstrating the control of light guided in channels smaller than one nanometer.

«This experiment is remarkable because the magnetic forces created by the nuclei are millions of times smaller than the electrostatic forces that usually drive currents,» yet they were able to control currents, he says.

And because graphene is essentially a two - dimensional material, building smaller devices with it and controlling the flow of electricity within them are easier than with three - dimensional alternatives like silicon transistors.

The results showed patients who received metoprolol had much smaller infarcts than those who received the control treatment, and that this smaller infarct size was linked to greater heart contractility.

The mean physical function score was 6 points higher in the GES group than in the control group, consistent with a statistically significant but relatively small effect.

Fetuses from zinc - deficient mice in the study were 38 percent smaller on average than those from the control group fed a diet with zinc included.

These metamaterials incorporate components much smaller than the wavelength of light, which allows them to control the light waves and gives them optical properties beyond those...

The brains of the mice were smaller than normal and had fewer neurons in areas that controlled the affected behaviors.

The discovery suggests that this level of organisation and genetic control is common to all living cells, from the largest to the smallest, and can be achieved with little more than a handful of DNA binding proteins and the structural properties of the DNA itself.

Engineering a particle that is 10 million times smaller than the size of a football is not easy: although nanoparticles like these have been made elsewhere in the past using different methods, they lack the level of control and purity offered at the Nanoparticles by Design Unit.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Fewer eggs can cause early menopause in women Even before puberty the egg reserve was smaller in the exposed animals than in the control animals.