Sentence examples for increase body size from inspiring English sources

One hopes that this leads to a review of the increasing pyramid of injuries -- minor and major -- resulting in recent years from more professionalized training, the pressure to play hurt, the taking of drugs to increase body size and the more general social glorification of violent competition.

Epidermal cells were largest around the time of moult, reflecting an uptake of water to increase body size before the hardening of the new cuticle.

The yellow coloured Limpurg cattle were not only frequently crossed with Simmentaler cattle [ 19], but also occasionally with Braunvieh and Gelbvieh cattle [ 15] in order to increase body size.

The new side-effect-free allele helps the population increase body size in response to sexual selection, i.e. to reach a further streetcar stop; still the changed average body size results in an increased frequency of side-effect-associated alleles and therefore decreased average viability of the population.

Tooth length scales isometrically with increasing body size (slope = 1.02).

"Clearly, the increased body size typical of these positions is contributing to this substantial risk," the federal study states.

However, this is likely due to a phenotypic decrease of relative Umax with increasing body size.

Activities of MDH, CS and SOD decreased with increasing body size (metabolic scaling effect).

All told, the study concluded, the increased body size of the larger population accounted for between 0.4 and 1.0 gigatons of additional carbon dioxide equivalents per year.

The lower temperatures and increased seasonality drove increased body size of mammals, and caused a shift towards increasingly open savanna-like vegetation, with a corresponding reduction in forests.

Nakayama K, Ishida N, Shirane M, Inomata A, Inoue T, Shishido N et al. Mice lacking p27(Kip1) display increased body size, multiple organ hyperplasia, retinal dysplasia, and pituitary tumors.