Sentences with phrase «with smaller fragments»

Not exact matches

Fragments of branching coral — the type that looks like animal horns — were attached with fishing line to skeletal branches of PVC pipe, creating a small forest of life in the middle of an otherwise desolate patch of ocean floor.

Before that, the fragments get worse, until the oldest of all, P52, which was discovered in an Egyptian trash heap in, is nothing more than a credit card sized piece of papyrus with a small piece of John Chapter 18 on it.

And, with the exception of the smallest fragments, no two of these manuscripts match one another.

This bi-directional belt underneath the rollers then provides the option to either process the small tobacco fragments separately or keep them combined with the product over the rollers.

In that time more than 500 tons of limy sand and dead coral have been jetted away with hoses and sucked and resucked through the maws of dredges, each cubic foot of it tediously searched for the small trinkets and fragments of the wreck.

Like precious family heirlooms, from time to time I reverently unpack the memories of your daddy gently swinging you on his arm during fussy periods of the day, how one of your big sisters would interact with you, the way you calmed when I held you, the seriousness with which you would watch light dancing on the wall, and other fragments of the time when you were the smallest big thing in my world.

Each venomous snake species produces a unique venom, a mixture of around 50 - 200 toxic proteins and protein fragments that co-evolve with the typical prey of the snake, such as the smaller reptiles eaten by the eastern coral snake or the rodents preferred by rattlesnakes.

Dr. Satish Rattan, Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Jefferson's Sidney Kimmel Medical College, together with Drs. Jagmohan Singh and Ipsita Mohanty, used altered copies of the body's own genetic make - up — small RNA fragments (microRNAs) that regulate the target gene RhoA / ROCK — in order to strengthen or weaken the muscle tone of the sphincter.

The radiotracer combines a small amount of the radioactive material zirconium - 89 with a fragment of an antibody called a minibody.

The populations are fragmented and small, with the biggest thought to be found in Algeria.

The study indicates that square fragments may shrink over time, she says, with smaller patches shrinking faster.

When they compared how HtrA1 degraded ApoE4 with ApoE3, they found that the enzyme processed more ApoE4 than ApoE3, chewing ApoE4 into smaller, less stable fragments.

Such edge fragments are also highly unstable, with one species replacing another in rapid succession, and the trees themselves remain generally smaller than their undisturbed, towering brethren in the interior.

Archaeologists found several fragments of history buried with Archer: a captain's leading staff, a small silver box, and a journal.

Use sticky tape or duct tape to pick up smaller fragments; then, on hard surfaces, wipe down the area with a damp paper towel or a wet wipe.

The sites — including locations in the Crane Naval Surface and Warfare Center, Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge, and state parks — varied in habitat size and form, ranging from small to large forest fragments with varying degrees of tree cover.

Initially the crash left behind some 1,500 pieces of wreckage bigger than four inches in diameter, along with hundreds of thousands of smaller fragments, estimates Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist of the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

To detect this sort of enzyme, the researchers designed nanoparticles coated with small protein fragments called peptides that can be cleaved by particular proteases called MMPs.

Innovators arriving with a constant rate help induce fragmented, small and local adoption clusters of vulnerable users in far apart areas of the network.

Forest ecologist Juan Armesto of the Universidad Católica de Chile, who collaborates with Weathers, says that the country's modern coastal rain forest represents small fragments of what must have once been a contiguous forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Mountains.

VIC - 008 is a fusion protein combining an immune - activating protein from the tuberculosis bacteria with a small antibody fragment targeting mesothelin, a protein expressed in several types of tumor — including mesothelioma, pancreatic and ovarian cancer.

Under the rubric of «artificial artificial intelligence,» it's a venue in which a «requester» (in the Mechanical Turk terminology) with a task can break it up into fragments called human intelligence tasks (HITs), offer a price per task, and then see if any of the cloud of «providers» — workers looking to pick up some small quantity of micropayment labor, akin to the «content producers» waiting for new jobs from Demand Media — will take them up.

The sequencing technology works by first chopping the genome into single - stranded DNA fragments and combining them with snippets of known synthetic DNA so that they form small circles of about 400 bases.

The difficulty in measuring such a small increment in chromosome 21 DNA concentration has recently been overcome with the use of massively parallel genomic sequencing.20 This technique can identify and quantify millions of DNA fragments in biological samples in a span of days.23 Three cohort studies have shown the feasibility of using the technique to identify fetuses with trisomy 21 by analysis of maternal plasma DNA.24 25 26 The sample numbers studied were small because, typically, only a few samples could be analysed in each sequencing run.

Lothagam Man: the Lothagam fossil is a small jaw fragment with one tooth, about 5 to 6 million years old.

Pancreas were removed quickly using asceptic methods and the tissue was minced into small fragments and digested in DMEM medium containing collagenase V (0.5 mg / mL) at 37 °C for 30 min with constant shaking as described by the method described earlier [25].

To test for Plasmodium falciparum DNA, PCR primers were designed that specifically amplify small subtelomeric variable open reading frame (STEVOR), apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1), and merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1) gene fragments with sizes of 100 to 250 base pairs (bp).

With longer (> 50 bp) fragment - end reads and / or paired - end libraries, it's possible to detect small insertion / deletion variants (indels) in next - gen sequencing data.

They started with the AAV9 virus and modified a gene fragment that codes for a small loop on the surface of the capsid — the protein shell of the virus that envelops all of the virus» genetic material.

They were surprised to find that the samples contained a small number of fragments of variola virus — the genetic remains of infection with the virus that causes smallpox.

The search list is divided into smaller fragments, so you can see multiple profiles at once, which prompts you to cover more people with fewer sweeps.

That we are able to discern so much about a character from about 25 minutes of exposition, composed simply of fragments of daily life — no high drama, no overt statements of purpose or desire — has to do with the meticulous attention paid by the director and his leading actress to rhythms, textures, and small details of behavior.

Gritty and involving, this small British thriller is like Memento crossed with The Bourne Identity as it reveals its secrets through a fragmented structure that involves espionage and memory.When a woman (Reid) wakes up on...

To achieve this the session will be fragmented into two halves with the second half of sessions then further broken down into smaller groups.

Micro-learning is learning in smaller fragments and goes hand in hand with traditional methods of learning.

As many of us have experienced with our own children, parents sometimes only receive a small, fragmented picture of their children's school work.

A related study found this is better achieved in small high schools — including charter and site - run pilot schools in L.A. — compared with the more fragmented social organization of large and traditional high schools.

Under its «school - led» policy, the infrastructure is becoming increasingly fragmented, with a massive expansion of School Direct, the accreditation of vast numbers of new small - scale training providers and a rather chaotic and rigged new recruitment system.

To get yourself heard above all the white noise is increasingly difficult and coupled with that is the issue that readerships are fragmenting, so you have to work harder to reach an ever - smaller audience.

Another issue is that the Android tablet sector is fragmented and divided, with different companies all fighting one another over what is arguably a small piece of a very large pie - most of which belongs to Apple.

It's surprising the market's still so fragmented today (vs. other sectors)-- but with busier lifestyles, longer commuting & working hours, fewer family meals & smaller households, plus a relentless trend towards eating on - the - go, arguably even the most basic petrol / convenience retailing model has remained compelling for today's consumer.

From the manufacturer's standpoint, you can prepare to deal with small, fragmented shipments as well as collection problems and transactional costs.

The project revealed several PET capabilities for equine imaging: • identified small areas of bone remodeling at the attachment of tendons or ligaments missed with other modalities • showed increased activity in bone adjacent to joints, where degenerative changes are known to occur, before morphological changes were present • revealed increased activity in some joint fragments whereas other joint fragments appeared quiet • demonstrated that some areas of bone proliferation were active, whereas others were quiescent.

The dog is injected with a small, but weakened dose of fragments of the the actual disease, that it is going to prevent.

That is because of the small diameter of their urethra and ureters and their tendency to obstruct (block up) with stone fragments.

Lithotripsy is a procedure whereby urinary tract stones are broken up (fragmented) into pieces small enough to pass out of the pet's body, either naturally or with assistance.

A comminuted fracture is when the bone is splintered or fragmented, with a minimum of three fracture fragments (fragments may be small or large), where the fracture lines interconnect.

With only three super airlines controlling the majority of the US market, instead of being fragmented across 6 legacy carriers and several smaller carriers, airlines are now free to screw the consumer every which way till Sunday.

With typical economy, he did «something else» with the wax work, creating six smaller, exquisite two - sided relief fragments in bronze, aluminum and even silver that conflate painting, sculpture and printmaking in a new With typical economy, he did «something else» with the wax work, creating six smaller, exquisite two - sided relief fragments in bronze, aluminum and even silver that conflate painting, sculpture and printmaking in a new with the wax work, creating six smaller, exquisite two - sided relief fragments in bronze, aluminum and even silver that conflate painting, sculpture and printmaking in a new way.

I enjoy the juxtaposition of small - scale found objects with the fragmented figure as a way to speak to the vulnerable states of life and the body.