In theory, smaller banks could fail as defaults piled up.
Those companies then get those detailed profiles, offering an opportunity to get a better look at a (in theory smaller) set of candidates that are the best for the job.
In figure 4, as expected by population genetic theory, smaller population sizes exhibit more stochasticity and a greater role for drift.
Although there is some indication that in Aristotle's chemical theory smallest particles played a role, it was certainly not a very important one.
In theory small, nimble low-cost companies could move in, using innovative techniques to extract the 24 billion barrels of oil (about 40 years' production at current rates) still remaining on the continental shelf, though mainly in smaller deposits.
I guess, it's like the broken car windows theory—small infractions lay the groundwork for bigger problems.
To test this theory, small amounts (0 10 wt%) of MWCNTs were added to methyl methacrylate styrene copolymer (MMA-co-Sty), a chief component of commercial bone cement.
According to this theory, small acts of deviance -- littering, graffiti, broken windows -- will, if ignored, escalate into more serious crime.
In theory, small ICUs could adopt new staffing models and hire more nurses.
The use of linearisation of nonlinear dynamic systems to obtain a linear model, with a limited range of validity, which facilitates theoretical analysis is a very common approach in engineering fields such as systems and control theory, electrical circuit theory (small signal analysis), rotating machinery and vibrational analysis.
Supporting the theory, small cancer stem cell populations are strongly implicated in leukaemia (Furth and Kahn, 1937; Kavalerchik et al, 2008) and tumour-initiating side populations have also recently been identified in solid tumours of the breast, colon and prostate, for example (Al-Hajj et al, 2003; Boman and Huang, 2008; Kakarala and Wicha, 2008; Maitland and Collins, 2008; Price et al, 2008).
