Dr. Smith argued that even if by world standards the damage caused by the alga is small, it adds a layer of stress to corals already dying fast because most of the algae-grazing fish that kept the reef ecosystem healthy have been eaten, leading to a much higher coral mortality when global warning sends water temperatures up.
Although the SSR and EST sequencing effort from most of these projects has been small it is useful to have added their sequences to GenBank to compare in the future to larger EST collections from Ramirez et al. [ 17], Melotto et al. [ 18] and Thibivilliers et al. [ 19] as well as future genomic sequences for common bean or related species.
He added: "It's small, it's tough.
Although this effect was reported to be small, adding to Eq. (3) a term for roll-off compensation [ 14] may further increase attenuation estimation accuracy.
Since this group was small, adding it to the multivariate model instead of 'Contact with the police or child welfare committee' did not change the results concerning the risk of convictions for violent crime and psychiatric diagnoses, we decided to use the broader construct in accordance with most violence risk assessment instruments.
Cape Cod "has a loyal following, but its following is small," he adds.
"One thing no editor in any newsroom in this country can avoid saying is that it will be smaller," he said, adding that if his bosses asked him how many people he needed to put out the paper, "the chances are we wouldn't say 630 people".
Since the museum's advertising budget is small, Mr. Gluck added, it has relied largely on word of mouth to draw people to its current exhibition, "NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America".
The sums are small, but add up quickly when multiplied by millions of users: Zynga says it has been profitable since shortly after its founding.
Given stepped-up monitoring, the likelihood of another melamine incident is small, adds David Goldfarb, a nephrologist at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.
