Immediately following maturation, individuals devoted a proportion of energy to reproductive tissues, so that the body length l a +1 at age a + 1 was given by 2 where GSI was the gonado-somatic index (gonadic mass divided by somatic mass) estimated for anadromous females.
One can even imagine a national decision to devote a larger proportion of national resources to the care of the old, given that a larger proportion of the population will be old — preferably to be paid for by taxing something we'd like to see less of (like fossil-fuel consumption) instead of something we'd like to see more of (like jobs).
Governments and health care providers around the world devote a large proportion of their budgets to maintaining quality of care.
It also provides a focus for the parents, predominantly mothers, to devote a significant proportion of their time to the development of their children, in addition to improving the learning and development potentials of the children.
For example, although the radar might devote a substantial proportion of its duty cycle to a pre-defined mode of ionospheric observation, a fraction of its observing time could be simultaneously devoted to other applications such as space debris, while some of its receiver beams could be used for radio astronomy observations, e.g. for solar wind studies via interplanetary scintillation.
In comparison to yeast and human cells, Toxoplasma appears to devote a greater proportion of its transcriptional energy to a relatively lower number of genes.
Noting that smallholders play a key role in food security, MPs urged the Department for International Development (DfID) to devote a greater proportion of its budget to supporting agricultural extension services (the provision of training and advice to smallholders).
Her salary was $50 each month, less than she had been earning in Oakland, but her duties were light enough that she was able to devote a greater proportion of her time to writing, and she signed on as sometime staff of Charles Fletcher Lummis's The Land of Sunshine magazine.
They have a fixation about Israel and devote a high proportion of their meetings to the country.
The House of Lords passed a bill recently to make Premier League football clubs devote a small proportion of their vast resources to making the necessary changes to their grounds.
