Is hope a lesser form of faith?
The traits that most likely have been selected during the domestication of tomato were fruit weight and, to a lesser extent, shape.
Throughout her career, she had been the purest pro: always on time, like a perfect schoolgirl, with her lines down pat and a ready jab at anyone who arrived in lesser shape.
The body parameters are easily obtained in extant species, but different methods should be applied in order to approach the body size and, to a lesser degree, body shape for extinct species from their bones.
In a study of the intermediate-to-large size nodules (NODCAT 3 and 4), especially size and to a lesser extent irregular shape and margin were found to increase the likelihood of malignancy.
The results have indicated that in the surface layer, the temperature and dissolved oxygen are the predominant drivers, whereas salinity contributes to a lesser extent to shaping the structure of microbial communities [2].
The first two axes in SRAP scatterplots clustered some taxa by morphology, including flesh color, as well as shape, to a lesser degree (e.g., "heart-shaped" varieties), whereas AFLP markers clustered accessions by region of origin.
There is also correlation with the variance of the energy distribution (standard deviation of the spectral roll-off at 95% r = 0.7); the distance between the spectrum of successive frames (mean spectral flux r = -0.7); and to a lesser degree with the shape of the spectrum in terms of its "width" (mean spectral spread r = -0.61).
Furthermore, given (a), there is no way to avoid this combinatorial explosion by determining the correct protein shape from a lesser part of the amino acid sequence.
While making her name alongside Mr. Brown, Ms. Whitney was becoming a lesser star on her own, shaped by Mr. Brown's heavy production hand.
