Sentences with phrase «vast numbers of»

Vast numbers of bacteria and plankton occur both at the surface and in deep ocean waters.

Vast numbers of marine «jelly balls» now appearing off the Australian east coast could be part of the planet's mechanism for combating global warming.

An ANN that could predict the habitability of vast numbers of planets, therefore, could save scientists time and help them focus on only the most promising targets.

Vast numbers of corals died suddenly during a record - breaking El Niño that raised sea - surface temperature 1 °C over a 3 - month period.

The program also allowed the researchers to address aspects of cell behavior that emerge from vast numbers of interacting factors.

During the first close approach just prior to four billion years in the future, the sky is ablaze with new star formation, which is evident in vast numbers of emission nebulae and open young star clusters (Image: NASA / STScI)

Now, that chance encounter has ended up forcing flower sellers on two continents to destroy vast numbers of petunias.

Jupiter and Neptune may have collected their Trojans about 3.8 billion years ago, at a time when the orbits of these planets were shifting and their gravity was flinging vast numbers of comet - like objects around the solar system (see The solar system, but not as we know it).

For example, in very large scale integration (VLSI) technology, vast numbers of electronic elements are packed into a tiny space, and it is the mass of electrical connections between them that limits performance.

The MIT researchers, along with their collaborators at MGH and other hospitals, were interested in taking advantage of the vast numbers of patient scans, which would allow them to learn much more than can be gleaned from smaller studies that produce higher - quality scans.

Worldwide, such statistics suggest that vast numbers of amphibians and reptiles are traded for medicines and food.

Yet vast numbers of the rural population live on the brink of starvation, unable to find a patch of land of their own to cultivate.

A database that records the vast numbers of sightings routinely made by dedicated birders around the globe, eBird has been growing steadily since its launch in 2002.

Besides, in most cases it will not be at all obvious which gene - alleles are to be preferred — so you'll have to wade through vast numbers of magazines with articles debating the virtues of various traits.

The soil in Britain for example, already provides a home for vast numbers of aliens imported by the invaders and explorers of past generations.

Even the famed Lourdes, with over 1 million visitors annually, boasts only a few dozen «miracle cures» ever, according to the Vatican — leaving vast numbers of pilgrims to cope otherwise with cancer and other serious illnesses.

Mapping the structure of the human brain is a daunting task: Billions of cells make vast numbers of connections, and tracing these tangled fibers is so labor - intensive that analyzing just one square millimeter of tissue takes years.

Since the human body plays host to vast numbers of bacteria, particularly our gut microbiome, this effectively means that there is a bacterial war going on inside us.

Thus, the vast numbers of farmers in the Indo - Gangetic Plain and in China's Yellow River Basin will most likely face severe disruptions in water availability.

The potential for epidemics to occur in parts of Africa and the Asia - Pacific region is particularly concerning given that the vast numbers of people who could be exposed to Zika virus are living in environments where health and human resources to prevent, detect, and respond to epidemics are limited.

But the discovery of vast numbers of immature eggs dying in the ovaries of mice led Tilly's team to find what they claim are hidden ovarian stem cells that can sprout new eggs to replace

The researchers conclude this technique could eventually lead to new ways to prepare vast numbers of cells for the coordinated manufacture of gene therapies.

If, as independent geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon argues, there is a «georeactor» at Earth's core, it would emit vast numbers of antineutrinos.

Self - assembly enables nature to build complex forms, from multicellular organisms to complex animal structures such as flocks of birds, through the interaction of vast numbers of limited and unreliable individuals.

The militia killed and displaced vast numbers of people in what would later be called genocide.

If vast numbers of advertisements are sent to newsgroups, people will no longer be able to filter out what they want to read, says Howard Rheingold, a journalist based in San Francisco who has written extensively about electronic communities.

The key lies not in individual reactions between neutrinos and electrons, but in the way the vast numbers of neutrinos affect wave - like fluctuations in the density of electrons in the plasma, known as «plasma waves».

The rest, says Dutilh, is a black box, both because of the vast numbers of unknown viruses out there and because of the rapid evolution of the viruses we do know.

New results suggest free - floating giant planets are less common than previously believed, but hint at vast numbers of smaller castaway worlds

If there are vast numbers of other universes, all with different properties, by pure odds at least one of them ought to have the right combination of conditions to bring forth stars, planets, and living things.

GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — A pair of cosmic radio beacons known as pulsars keep switching off and on, suggesting that there might be vast numbers of undiscovered pulsars hiding in our galaxy.

They found they could capture the essential features of these complicated materials, containing vast numbers of interacting electrons, with just a single rule: Electrons can move randomly from one atom to another within a given sample, but they can only move in pairs.

Astronomers expected them to be the tip of the stellar iceberg, their light overwhelming the faint glow emitted by vast numbers of more...

In 1993, between the first and second years of his MBA program, Kreiner interned at Affymetrix, a then - new company that used technology from the semiconductor industry to analyze vast numbers of genes.

Hundreds of thousands of people died, and most buildings within 20 kilometres of the epicentre were severely damaged or destroyed, including the presidential palace, UN headquarters and vast numbers of homes.

In the painstaking work of synthesizing vast numbers of compounds and identifying those that are the best candidate drugs, researchers have cultivated a capable new lab assistant: DNA.

There will soon be vast numbers of casualties staring shell - shocked and limbless into the lens of the Sky News camera, all of them looking for Clegg's phone number.

It was first put in place when in 2007 when Cuomo was attorney general and Eliot Spitzer was governor, and when it was technologically much more difficult to store vast numbers of emails.

She acknowledged that Jeremy Corbyn's campaign had «mobilised and enthused vast numbers of people in a way we haven't seen for decades».

Mann revealed that Unite general secretary Len McCluskey had told him that «vast numbers of our members voted Ukip».

However my long experience in the Tory Party taught me that vast numbers of party members rank expressions of anti laissez - faire sentiment with the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

It was first put in place when Cuomo was Attorney General, and Eliot Spitzer was governor, back in 2007, when it was technologically much more difficult to store vast numbers of emails.

The Trump administration's far - reaching plan to arrest and deport vast numbers of undocumented immigrants has been introduced in dramatic fashion over the past month.

But we also need to act on the vested interests that squeeze the living standards of vast numbers of people across the country.

On Friday senior Lib Dem figures were privately saying that the party needed to energise itself in order to make an ambitious play for the vast numbers of «voiceless» voters in the country.

They won't change the fundamental situation that vast numbers of New Yorkers can't afford rent.

We applaud the Comptroller's Office for taking this step, and look forward to seeing them publish all of the vast numbers of tables embedded in their various reports in a version that the public can actually use.

Cabinet fury with David Cameron over gay marriage has been blown into the open after the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, criticised Downing Street for wasting parliamentary time on the issue and angering vast numbers of people.

His hard work in attending vast numbers of meetings and assimilating copious amounts of information has made him an intriguing candidate.

But he said of No 10's attempts to introduce equal marriage: «I have just never felt that this is what we should be focusing on... There was no huge demand for this and we didn't need to spend a lot of parliamentary time and upset vast numbers of people in order to do this.»