Sentences with phrase «when small fractions»

On the other hand, the potential is clearly there to bias the temperature readings in / around urban centers when small fractions of a degree are considered significant.

Not exact matches

Our failure rates are a fraction of what they used to be when we were a small private company.

As a businessman, Pinault is known for his «predator» tactics, which include buying smaller firms for a fraction of the cost when the market crashes.

What it's about: When a father dies, his spoiled son inherits only a fraction of his small fortune while his autistic savant brother inherits the bulk of it.

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

Only a tiny fraction of assistance is ever directed to research and even that small sum tends to be the first on the chopping block when budgets are cut.

Founders effect is when the establishment of a new population is founded by a few original individuals that carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population.

As a Fan I know that a fraction of the money I spend as a supporter goes to buy players, unfortunately it seems a very small fraction, so I will continue with my own little contribution, as I know the owner will rather see us in the relegation battle than dig into his pockets to reinforce the squad, but also would like to see a gesture from WENGER, whom we all know is going nowhere, as a Man of principles that he claims to be and that he will HONOR his Contract till the end, as the ARSENAL lover he claims to be cut your wages give back some of that money that you did not earn and contribute to the future glory of the Team, like each one of us Fans do when we spend our well and hard earned money, do this buy players.

As part of the settlement, the speaker has agreed to pay a $ 7,000 fine for accepting the services, a small fraction of the $ 25,000 statutory maximum she faced when the inquiry was first launched.

She traces those anomalies back to a fraction of a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, when our universe was so small that it behaved like a subatomic particle, dominated by quantum physics.

«When we analysed the smaller fractions, which are called fluff and fragment, the plastic leakage was more than a hundred times greater than when we only counted the pellWhen we analysed the smaller fractions, which are called fluff and fragment, the plastic leakage was more than a hundred times greater than when we only counted the pellwhen we only counted the pellets.

Since 1979, when the National Academy of Sciences undertook its first major study of global warming, «Americans have been alerted to the dangers of climate change so many times that reproducing even a small fraction of these warnings would fill several volumes,» writes Elizabeth Kolbert.

Back when the Universe was only 380,000 years old it would have been a fraction of that size, too small to allow big fluctuations.

In early 2010, when physicists announced the creation of the superheavy element ununseptium, even the handful of atoms that were made decayed into smaller ones in a fraction of a second.

Even though it is a small planet, GJ 1214 b blots out a relatively large fraction of its star's light when it transits, thanks to the host star's diminutive size, just one - fifth the diameter of the sun.

This is a problem, says Frangioni, because when fluorescent molecules are injected into the blood, only a small fraction is taken up by the tissue of interest; the rest continue to circulate through the blood until filtered either by the kidneys or liver and excreted from the body.

It might be that only a fraction of cases exhibits abnormalities, which can hence go undetected when sample size is small.

View of the dilution refrigerator that will lower temperature to a small fraction of a degree above absolute zero when connected.

When you are dealing with an enormous energy source such as the Sun, or even the small fraction called photosynthesis, the oil field analogies aren't helpful, I think.

When speaking about the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the Earth's atmosphere, Goreham correctly told NEPPA members that greenhouse emissions only make up a small fraction of the atmosphere, but wrongfully deduced that this means they could not have any significant impact on the planet.

Every PrEn marker present in our data set increased in the differentiated V+S − cells and importantly showed small but consistent increases when the V+S + fraction was compared to V − S + cells.

That's just a small fraction of the number of possible combinations available when cells make proteins.

Well to most there is no problem but of course I'm the small fraction of people that can't stand when my polish chips.

This is just a small fraction of the fun you can have when finding love online with eHarmony.

The benefit to the small is that they can live in luxury for a fraction of the price it takes when you're big.

When you hear that, you have to wonder why training professionals put so much of their time and effort (and budget) into such a small fraction of the training experience.

... When these factors are statistically controlled... it appears that differences between schools account for only a small fraction of differences in pupil achievement.

A mathematician I know who teaches at a small college told me that a graduate of his education school caused much embarrassment when, during the interview for a job in an elementary school, the job seeker was unable to add two fractions when asked to do so.

When these factors are statistically controlled, however, it appears that differences between schools account for only a small fraction of differences in pupil achievement (pp. 21 - 22).

Since 1992, when Minnesota became the first state to pass a charter - school law, the numbers of charter schools and the numbers of kids the schools serve have exploded, but they still make up a small fraction of overall public - school student enrollment.

When you consider how such a small fraction of books accounted for an outsize percentage of bestsellers, you begin to realize something special is happening here.»

The incredible thing about the «truth» is that it waits to be revealed in small pieces and fractions at different stages of our lives and presents itself to you when that time is ready.

As long as you make a monthly minimum payment, generally a small fraction of the outstanding balance, you enjoy some freedom in when you pay back all the money you've borrowed on the card.

When Gulf's stock rose handsomely as the nation emerged from the Depression, Evans used his profits to buy Porter bonds, then selling for a small fraction of their face value.

In 2007 when post-hurricane flooding exposed residents to lepto risk, 2.3 million people were safely immunized at a small fraction of the cost of vaccination.

One character can roll under gunfire, for instance, but as useful as that is in theory, it's difficult to build it into your game plan for a level when it's only available a small fraction of the time.

When we asked how much it cost to put the 3x3 meter stage together, the team told us it was around the price of a small smart car — a fraction of what a major studio would pay.

This blue often appears in Byzantine frescos, when it was made from Azurite and a small fraction of coal.

By including paintings and collages from 1959 - 65, the heyday of Pop Art, and from 1988 - 89, when many were lamenting painting's fallen status, the exhibition suggests that Drexler has been painting all along, and that we know only a small fraction of her work.

Why would a 7 % decrease in UV from the sun result in it being 7 % cooler, when UV is only a small fraction of the energy put out?

Each of these options costs a small fraction of the cost to build a school, even when one considers the additional expense of retrofitting.

When particles are dispersed in water at ambient temperature, energy is directed primarily to vaporization of water into steam, with a much smaller fraction resulting in heating of the fluid.

While these forgotten gases account for only a small fraction of total greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, nitrous oxide is up to 300 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when compared to carbon dioxide over a 100 - year time period.

That's true, when the addition to OHC is only a small fraction of the total change in forcing, because essentially the same factor affects the correction.

I wish to make it clear that my own preference for estimating TCR is the approach of Otto et al., i.e. comparing temperatures over an interval at a time when human influence was only a small fraction of the present with the recent data.

Electricity generated this way might be reduced when its least convenient, its also non linear in power, with half the wind speed reducing a very small fraction.

I've pointed out several times that I've never seen lolwot concede a single point... not give up the smallest fraction of an inch on any issue... which is pretty telling when you think about it.

In other words, the OISM signatories represent a small fraction (~ 0.3 %) of all science graduates, even when we use the OISM's own definition of a scientist.

There's also the question of whether the current White House is up for big, wonky crossover ideas — especially when recent polling suggests that only a small fraction of Trump voters even believe in human - caused climate change.

The ice cap is now only a fraction smaller than in 1980 — when it was at its largest.