Sentence examples for lifespan large from inspiring English sources

However, these methods have problems such as a high pressure drop, short lifespan, large site, economics and formation of secondary pollutants.

The free-living soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has become one of the most powerful biological research tools available today because of its ease of handling, short lifespan, large brood size, and amenability to molecular as well as classical genetics [1].

The higher parasite fitness (estimated as the production of spores, the parasite's transmission stage) recorded in female hosts may be explained by a combination of female Daphnia's longer lifespan, larger body size and higher spore production rate in the first 20 days of infection.

"In these times of financial stress every extra cost is a concern," said Linda Shelton, the spokeswoman for Lifespan, a large health care system in Rhode Island.

The Naval Law stipulated that the lifespan of large warships was to be reduced from 25 years to 20 years; this was done in an effort to force the Reichstag to allocate funds for additional ships.

To unravel the mechanisms underlying the evolution of long lifespan, a large number of natural and genetically tractable systems have been employed in ageing research [1].

Because of the extreme levels of depletion of whales that had occurred, and because of the long lifespan of large whales, the effects of whaling even 100 years previously were important to an understanding of the current state of whale populations.

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is ideal for studying sperm competition because its short lifespan and large brood size make the animals easy to work with in the laboratory.

Substituting the size and lifespan for large and average dogs with M = 3 gives an RR of 0.94, that is, the lifetime cancer risk of the larger dog is less as a result of their shorter lifespan.

Previous studies from our group indicate that TP53 codon 72 polymorphism does not affect the human lifespan, when large cohorts of subjects from young people to centenarians are analysed [ 46].

The decreased lifespan of large dogs is predicted to decrease the incidence of cancer and could easily mask a substantial increase in cancer risk due to their increased body size.