By comparison, Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there.

Inside the body, artificial heart valves are in common use with artificial hearts and lungs seeing less common use but under active technology development.

A more or less typical monocotyledon, the species can be recognized by its shortly branched inflorescence covered with branched hairs ( giving rise to the common name of Lamb's-tail ).

An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".

The debate is interesting enough, however, that it is considered of note when a theorem in ZFC ( ZF plus AC ) is logically equivalent ( with just the ZF axioms ) to the axiom of choice, and mathematicians look for results that require the axiom of choice to be false, though this type of deduction is less common than the type which requires the axiom of choice to be true.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

Abalone are mostly taken in depths from a few inches up to 10 m ( 33 ft ); less common are freedivers who can work deeper than 10 m ( 33 ft ).

This is particularly important for light, modern anchors designed to bury in the bottom, where ratios of 5 – 7 to 1 are common, whereas heavy anchors and moorings can use 3 to 1 or less.

The scientists found that stress fractures were " significantly " less common in Albertosaurus than in the carnosaur Allosaurus.

The practice of reading to oneself without vocalizing the text was less common in antiquity than it has since become.

These names make it evident that the American broccoli, carrot, and onion are not indigenous to China and therefore are less common in the cuisines of China.

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

As Apple abandoned many of these product categories, and all new systems were based on IP, AppleTalk became less and less common.

The most common of the stressors are the easiest for people to identify, but there are many other, less recognizable abiotic stress factors which affect environments constantly.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

The term is less common in modern texts, and was originally derived from a dichotomy with major tranquilizers, also known as neuroleptics or antipsychotics.

A characteristic application is to the protection of ships ' bottoms, but more modern methods of cathodic protection have rendered its use less common.

3D beading is less common than 2D beading, largely because free 3D beading patterns are not well distributed on the internet.

In general, the difference between a statistics program and a biostatistics program is twofold: ( i ) statistics departments will often host theoretical / methodological research which are less common in biostatistics programs and ( ii ) statistics departments have lines of research that may include biomedical applications but also other areas such as industry ( quality control ), business and economics and biological areas other than medicine.

The most common options are either a rear hub or multiple chain rings combined with multiple sprockets ( other combinations of options are possible but less common ).

Of the capabilities present in the BBC Micro but absent from the Electron, the teletext-style mode 7 was particularly conspicuous because of the very low memory usage in that mode ( just less than 1 kB ) and the high number of BBC programs that used it.

While non-native users know of the spiritual applications of ayahuasca, a less well-known traditional usage focuses on the medicinal properties of ayahuasca.

* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

Patrick Wormald interpreted it as " less an objectively realized office than a subjectively perceived status " and emphasized the partiality of its usage in favour of Southumbrian rulers.

fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; equipment is old and outdated, and connections with many parts of the country are unreliable ; mobile-cellular usage, in part a reflection of the poor condition and general inadequacy of the fixed-line network, increased more than 6-fold between 2002 and 2007 reaching a subscribership base of 25 per 100 persons

The introduction of gradient pumps resulted in quicker separations and less solvent usage.

The modern usage of the term carbine covers much the same scope as it always had, namely lighter weapons ( generally rifles ) with barrels less than 457. 2 mm ( 18 inches ).

Some authors have used " basal " differently to mean a clade that is " more primitive " or less species-rich than its sister clade ; others consider this usage to be incorrect, and many now discourage the use of that term altogether to avoid such implications.

This leads to the second usage of the word divine ( and a less common usage of divinity ): to refer to the operation of transcendent power in the world.

has gradually become less common and studies outside theology and medicine have become more common ( such studies were then called " philosophy ", but are now classified as sciences and humanities – however this usage survives in the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ).

Two other terms are spirant and strident, but their usage is less standardized.

Something might be a kludge if it fails in corner cases, but this is a less common sense as such situations are not expected to come up in typical usage.

Precise definitions have varied over time, and the term originally had a broader and less well defined usage.

The increased usage comes as doctors search for an opioid drug that can be dosed less frequently than shorter-acting drugs like morphine or hydrocodone.

These tracks are in use where a daily usage of less than five vehicles is expected.

The usage share of Netscape had fallen from over 90-percent in the mid 1990s to less than one-percent by the end of 2006.

* Sometimes it refers to XSL-FO: this usage can be justified by the fact that the XSL-FO specification carries the title Extensible Stylesheet Language ( XSL ); however, the term XSL-FO is less likely to be misunderstood

In a less common usage, the term may also refer to non-political, cultural Zionism, founded and represented most prominently by Ahad Ha ' am ; and political support for the State of Israel by non-Jews, as in Christian Zionism.

Feminist writers have suggested that the less prejudicial usage of the Old English sources reflects more egalitarian notions of gender at the time.

Higher exhaust velocity has both benefit and tradeoff, increasing propellant usage efficiency ( more momentum per unit mass of propellant expelled ) but decreasing thrust and the current rate of spacecraft acceleration if available input power is constant ( less momentum per unit of energy given to propellant ).

In 2003, Consumer Reports, based on complaints about 2002 model new cars that in general are less than one year usage, ranked Hyundai's reliability tied with Honda's ; however, J. D.

Although different meanings are often ascribed to the terms yaoi and Boy's Love ( with yaoi generally said to be more explicit and BL generally said to being less so ), there is conflicting information on their usage.

** Enclosing a phrase between two asterisks is used to denote an action the user is " performing ", e. g. < tt >* pulls out a paper *</ tt >, although this usage is also common on forums, and less so on most chat rooms due to / me or similar commands.