For China, the issue is not primarily hydrocarbons — the deposits are valuable to smaller countries but marginal to China's needs.
Pastoralists have been pushed to small marginal parcels of land that have not been leased to private individual ranchers (Muhereza 2001).
If natural fitness landscapes are actually more rugged than those used here the potential evolutionary advantage to small, marginal, or fragmented populations may be further enhanced, and this may somewhat mitigate risks to threatened populations of animals and plants.
Nevertheless, human predation of large South American mammals had a marginal role, affecting only to small isolated populations [ 31].
Selecting distributions that will often place high prior density in large regions of parameter space with low likelihood can lead to small marginal likelihoods of parameter-rich models even if they are correct.
"We deployed our platform to help the foundation target over $8m of investments to small and marginal farmers in Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh," she says.
Yet, common bean is essential for micronutrient nutrition and is adaptable to marginal areas for small-scale farm agriculture despite problems of low phosphorus soils or other abiotic constraints [ 9, 10] and a range of diseases and pests [ 11].
Ask Gelacio Iiguez how technology has made possible great leaps forward in the cement business, and he makes an interesting observation: "One thing that we believe creates a competitive advantage [in cement] is to observe marginal, small practices from other industries.
As in Chisari et al. (2013), we expect this effect to be marginal in environmentally small economies, relative to the emissions generated by large economies.
Similarly, although the statistical significance was marginal due to the small number of cases, there is intriguing evidence that those choosing a civil marriage and hence embracing more secular values and less subject to the church's influence had lower birth transition rates than those who were married in church.
