Small events grow in importance — the rescue of a lamb, the leaking of a roof, the preparation of a special lobster dinner, what the novelist Charles Baxter has called "the markers of time moving through stillness".
Overall, the main prey of owls was small mammals, followed in importance by birds, insects and reptiles.
Stories that invite people to take small actions will grow in importance next year.
She settled onto a blanket at the side, where a tumble of small toy cars felt equal in importance to the lapping dance she had not interrupted.
Public activities rise in importance from small for elementary-school children to nearly a third of that in groups for high-school upperclassmen.
In his depiction, the hulking castle-like building sits uncomfortably amid far smaller buildings, its walls dwarfing them in importance.
For instance, while the heavily sequenced Gamma-proteobacteria were indeed present in the role category solution sets of A. aeolicus, their contribution was limited to a few categories and was similar in importance to much smaller groups such as the Epsilon-proteobacteria.
Firstly, we verified that the horizontal inertial forces in the radial direction are of no less importance (no smaller in terms of their magnitude) than the forces in the tangential direction, and that their maximum values can easily be a few times greater than the nominal centrifugal force.
The variation in variable importance was smaller in the resampled case study data set, compared with experiment 2. The BRT model, such as the CART model, also chose variables R1 and R2 as relatively important in predicting missingness.
Dr. Barden continued, "As technological advances allow more smaller babies to survive, their brain development increases in importance.
