Proportion
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We finally settled on a shape that was the
proportion
of the Concertgebouw with the sloping outside walls, which the acoustician said were crucial to this and later decided they weren't, but now we have them.
The population isn't out of
proportion
to its area, but Africa leads the world in deaths from often preventable causes: malnutrition, simple infections and birth complications.
And the flagship target there was to halve the
proportion
of people living in poverty by 2015.
Although, the
proportion
of translated books published in many other countries is a lot higher.
Then, in the second generation, where the two heterozygous kids marry, their babies could have any of the three possible genotypes, showing the two possible phenotypes in a three-to-one
proportion.
This is far more than expected for their relative brain sizes, which scale in
proportion
to body size.
Letting just a small
proportion
of cells signal at any one time, known as sparse coding, uses the least energy, but carries the most information.
Worse, if a big
proportion
of cells never fire, then they are superfluous and evolution should have jettisoned them long ago.
The solution is to find the optimum
proportion
of cells that the brain can have active at once.
It's also called the upside-down tree, simply because the
proportion
of roots to shoots is so great that it looks like the tree has been planted upside down.
All of this implies there's a reason that evolution has produced this small
proportion
of lefties, and maintained it over the course of millennia.
Here, the hidden factor is the relative
proportion
of patients who arrive in good or poor health.
By 1990, a mere decade later, this
proportion
stood at 80 percent.
Although Roman culture was never fully lost, its influence declined and new art styles arose focused on religious symbolism and allegory rather than
proportion
and realism.
For example, in these attitudes in the United Kingdom, the public believed that levels of asylum were a greater
proportion
of immigration than they were, but they also believed the levels of educational migration were far lower as a
proportion
of overall migration than they actually are.
Use these in
proportion
to this.
If you've got a harmful organism, a high
proportion
of the people are going to be symptomatic, a high
proportion
of the people are going to be going to get antibiotics.
Now you are just looking at about 7.4 billion people with the map drawn in
proportion
to those people.
Their brains are in the same
proportion
as chimpanzee brains are.
Sixty years later, Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov furthered our mathematical understanding of turbulence when he proposed that energy in a turbulent fluid at length R varies in
proportion
to the 5/3rds power of R. Experimental measurements show Kolmogorov was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics.
And if I write a story that I'm enjoying while I'm writing it and I can't wait to see what happens next, then I'm hoping that a large
proportion
of the public will feel the same way, and they'll enjoy it too.
If you look at the
proportion
of prime working-age men, in the United States at least, who work now versus in 1960, we have three times as many men not working.
But these are completely crazy, when you actually remember your sense of
proportion.
We need to give our best guess as to the time frame, in order to give people a sense of
proportion
so that they can assess their priorities.
We’re capable of experiencing severe pain out of
proportion
to an actual injury, and even pain without any injury, like the builder, or the well-documented cases of male partners of pregnant women experiencing pain during the pregnancy or labor.
So, for roughly 300 years, the hot debate in architecture was whether the number five or the number seven was a better
proportion
to think about architecture, because the nose was one-fifth of your head, or because your head was one-seventh of your body.
The
proportion
in your approach to those things is who you are, and they have reassembled who we are in the form of for-profit companies.
Most mutations will have no effect, or even prove detrimental; but a small
proportion
may enable the pathogen to better infect a new species.
In Adam Smith's earlier work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," which I think is just as important, he made the observation that the value of any government is judged in
proportion
to the extent that it makes its people happy.
And there's a phenomenon called Henry's law, that says gases will dissolve into a fluid in
proportion
to the partial pressures you're exposing them to.
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