Sentence examples for normal background rate from inspiring English sources

We are causing species destruction at between 1,000 to 10,000 times the normal background rate of about five species per year, killing off dozens per day.

Given that the current extinction rate is 1000 times the normal background rate, how can we justify continuing this aspect of globalization?

Thus, the simulated outbreaks are generated from a distinct process, which occurs in addition to the normal background rate of disease that is not associated with factors responsible for the amplification in disease spread.

Antigen-dependent diversity is generated by somatic hypermutation in the periphery in a manner dependent on activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID); during this process, mutations in the Ig genes are accumulated at rate of up to 10 times the normal background rate (Muramatsu et al., 2000).

A number of factors may explain the noddies' limited ability to increase provisioning rates beyond normal background rates, including differences in foraging ecology between offshore foraging black noddies and these more pelagic species [49] or access to variety in prey types [50], [51].

The extinction rate now is 1,000 times the normal background extinction rate.

This will be followed by a return to the "normal" or background rate of evolutionary change as the new species grows in numbers.

In the most heavily affected area, 4 times the normal background dose rates were recorded.

Grade ≥3 PH occurred in 15 patients (0.7%), a rate considered by the authors to be in the normal background range.

A calculated three-sigma criteria count rate was calculated for each target tissue by the methodology popularized of Thurston [ 23, 24], based upon taking the standard deviation derived from the normal background tissue count rate and multiplying that standard deviation by a factor of three and then adding that number to the normal background tissue count rate.

The three-sigma statistical threshold criteria was calculated by taking the standard deviation derived from the normal background tissue count rate and multiplying that standard deviation by a factor of three, and then adding that number to the normal background tissue count rate [ 70, 75- 77].