Sentence examples for proportion of decay from inspiring English sources

(5) The proportion of decay attributed to catabolism of organic molecules by saprophytic organisms will be minimal in this form of litter, as the dry canopy environment is not conducive to mineralization by fungi and bacteria.

For each specimen for each sample decaying characters were scored 0.5 and lost characters scored 1.0; the sum of these was divided by the number of observed characters to give the proportion of decay.

(6) In contrast, the proportion of decay attributed to comminution by detritivorous insects and mites will be greater than in other forms of litter due to a greater length of time that these detritivores can feed on the dead materials.

Perey then attempted to determine the proportion of beta decay to alpha decay in actinium-227.

Exact McNemar's test and Chi-square tests for homogeneity of proportions determined that there was no statistically significant difference in the proportion of untreated decay, sealants, gingival signs of disease, dental injury, restored or missing teeth between athletes participating in both SO events 2012 and 2013 (Fig.  1).

There is also a wide variety of isotopes for PET, which only have a small proportion of the decays leading to positron emission (called low branching ratio).

For these calculations, we used p = 1, r = 1.2 and o = the average of the proportion of nests in decay stage A and decay stage B that were detected (as most new nests were in those stages).

The accuracy of this estimate increases with the proportion of the total decay that is associated with the slow decay processes.

Anomalous proportions of their "decay products" — the elements they transmute into, isotopes of magnesium and nickel — indicate that our young system was sprayed with these hot nuclei.

We used Chi-Square-test to analyze compositional differences between young and old stands in respect to proportions of different decay stages of dead wood.

Additional file 1: Proportion of characters exhibiting decay through the experiment.