Sentence examples for a preference of small from inspiring English sources

It is shown how high discount rates lead to a preference of small fixed-bed volumes, and accordingly, a high number of refills.

In addition to recent shifts in herd composition from cattle to a preference of small stock (goats and sheep), per capita livestock has also declined, threatening economic hardship and food security issues in these pastoral communities (Lamprey and Reid 2004).

On minimizing data aggregation delay, we have discovered that constructing an aggregation tree with a preference of links with small sleeping delays is beneficial to reduce aggregation delay.

To get an intuitive idea of how a preference for small objects can be generated on the basis of the same type of synaptic transmission characteristic we have a closer look.

Different characteristics of the functions of synaptic transmission of the inhibitory and the excitatory synapses are thus not essential and not a genuine functional principle of the circuit underlying a preference for small objects.

In several recent analyses the distribution of amino acids at helix-helix contact sides has been analyzed, and e.g. a preference of amino acids with small side chains has been identified.

With increasing width of the spatial filter a preference of the FD-cell for small objects emerges.

With regards to male mate choice for female body size, Joyce et al. (2009) did not find any male preference in C. marginiventris but males of C. flavipes showed a preference for smaller females.

Although a previous smaller study reported a preference of PB for transcribed genes with 70 out of 104 insertions being intragenic [ 13], our study found that just 45.6% of total insertion sites were located within transcribed gene sequences.

Comparative analysis revealed a positional preference of the small RNA clusters mapping with respect to the 3' end of the lncRNAs (Additional File 5).

Stratifying by preferences would help the power of a trial if either the trial was small or the proportion of patients with a preference was small; if, for instance, 10% of participants had a preference and the trial only had 100 participants, all 10 (or at least eight or nine) participants with a preference might end up in one group.