Sentence examples for smaller than optimal from inspiring English sources

As samples size was smaller than optimal information size, the quality of evidence was downgraded once again for imprecision.

Those crossbills, for which we have evidence of their either exerting selection on their key conifers, or evolution of increased crossbill defenses in their key conifers, are the crossbills having smaller than "optimal" bills (the Douglas-fir [call type 4], ponderosa pine [call type 2], and South Hills [call type 9] crossbills; Benkman et al. in press).

On the contrary, for cells smaller than optimal diameter, they have a tendency for revisable infiltration (migration) through the depth of scaffold profile (see Figure 1(a)).

With regards to optimal hospital size, most district hospitals (75.0%) are not operating at an optimal size and are thus scale inefficient (bigger or smaller than optimal).

Still, the proportion of women who reported being provided with information and at least consulted in decision-making was considerably smaller than optimal for several procedures (e.g., ultrasound scans, blood tests, vaginal examinations, fetal monitoring, and episiotomy).

The tree length values for the most of the land plant datasets were smaller than optimal (< 1; Table 2 and Additional file 2), hence the number of cases with detected positive selection in land plants may be underestimated.

Moreover, micro stimulation at low current intensities has been shown to yield saccades with smaller-than-optimal amplitudes (Van Opstal et al. 1990), which cannot be explained by an ideal center-of-gravity computation.

Units constructed with smaller-than-optimal gaps often exhibit significant U-factor change due to temperature-induced reduction in gap width.

As a result, centripetal saccades require smaller torques, have less SDN and a shorter optimal duration than centrifugal saccades.

In order to evaluate the derivative result, we compare the correct estimation probability in terms of different threshold values: the theoretical optimal, larger and smaller than the optimal value, respectively.

It is obvious that the optimal function value of problem (4) is not smaller than the optimal function value of the problem min x, y, λ { C 1 T x + C 2 T y : ( x, y, λ ) ∈ T }. (6).