`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

The relative size of each atom in the mix plays a primary role in determining which mechanism will occur.

Strings whose Kolmogorov complexity is small relative to the string's size are not considered to be complex.

Amdahl's law is a model for the relationship between the expected speedup of parallelized implementations of an algorithm relative to the serial algorithm, under the assumption that the problem size remains the same when parallelized.

Predators tend to have larger brains than their prey, relative to body size.

About 90 % of women's breasts are asymmetrical to some degree, either in size, volume, or relative position upon the chest.

Nearly all the descriptive words used to justify the genus division were relative terms without a reference measure, and the argument did not take into account the size differences between the species, which can be considerable.

Quantitative symbols give a visual measure of the relative size / importance / number that a symbol represents and to symbolize this data on a map, there are two major classes of symbols used for portraying quantitative properties.

Sometimes the space savings is given instead, which is defined as the reduction in size relative to the uncompressed size:

Taiko are also characterized by a high amount of tension on the drums heads, with a correspondingly high pitch relative to body size.

The double bass's large size and relative fragility make it cumbersome to handle and transport.

Elton defined ecological relations using concepts of food chains, food cycles, and food size, and described numerical relations among different functional groups and their relative abundance.

The hallmarks of a fighter are its speed, maneuverability, and small size relative to other combat aircraft.

After the American Civil War, the federal government increased greatly in influence on everyday life and in size relative to the state governments.

The engineering properties of soils are affected by four main factors: the predominant size of the mineral particles, the type of mineral particles, the grain size distribution, and the relative quantities of mineral, water and air present in the soil matrix.

Because of the greater size and relative efficiency of the Salvadoran and Guatemalan industrial sectors, however, Honduras bought far more manufactured products from its neighbors than it sold to them.

Ebbinghaus is also credited with discovering an optical illusion now known after its discoverer — the Ebbinghaus illusion, which is an illusion of relative size perception.

Stating it this way allows the relative toxicity of different substances to be compared, and normalizes for the variation in the size of the animals exposed ( although toxicity does not always scale simply with body mass ).

Furthermore, the size of the industry relative to the minimum efficient scale may limit the number of companies that can effectively compete within the industry.

:* Rat ( Rattus norvegicus )-particularly useful as a toxicology model ; also particularly useful as a neurological model and source of primary cell cultures, owing to the larger size of organs and suborganellar structures relative to the mouse.

Slightly expanded they are called buttons, once again because of the relative size and shape.

Mergers are generally differentiated from acquisitions partly by the way in which they are financed and partly by the relative size of the companies.

The French Navy won some important victories near the end of the 17th century but a focus upon land forces led to the French Navy's relative neglect, which allowed the Royal Navy to emerge with an ever-growing advantage in size and quality, especially in tactics and experience, from 1695.

Furthermore, unexpectedly rapid progress or a technological break-through on any one weapon system, in itself, often diminishes the relative importance of other competitive systems.

For the purposes of this discussion, the problem of relative prices is encompassed in these two variables, since GNP includes other prices.

Thus every part and plane of the picture keeps changing place in relative depth with every other part and plane ; ;

This is the notion that particular cultures should not be judged by one culture's values or viewpoints, but that all cultures should be viewed as relative to each other.

It is distinguished by its high level of firepower, mobility and armour protection relative to other vehicles of its era.

Similarly, arbitrage affects the difference in interest rates paid on government bonds issued by the various countries, given the expected depreciations in the currencies relative to each other ( see interest rate parity ).

However, although these enzymes can produce oxidants, the relative importance of the electron transfer chain to other processes that generate peroxide is unclear.

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

A backplane ( or " backplane system ") is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors forming a computer bus.

The next morning, Boaz discusses the issue with the other male relative, Ploni Almoni (" so-and-so ") before the town elders.

The other male relative is unwilling to jeopardize the inheritance of his own estate by marrying Ruth, and so relinquishes his right of redemption, thus allowing Boaz to marry Ruth.

The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context.

This is likely to have exchange rate implications: a sharp loss of value in the deficit economy ’ s exchange rate with the surplus economy ’ s currency will change the relative price of tradable goods, and facilitate a return to balance or ( more likely ) an over-shooting into surplus the other direction.

It is one of five arguments from the " properties, causes, and effects " of true motion and rest that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space.

In other words, it is not the relative motion of the pail and water that causes concavity of the water, contrary to the idea that motions can only be relative, and that there is no absolute motion.

Except in the case of the isotopes of hydrogen ( which differ greatly from each other in relative mass — enough to cause chemical effects ), the isotopes of the various elements are typically chemically nearly indistinguishable from each other.

As with the isotopes of other elements, a variety of processes fractionate, or alter the relative abundance of, calcium isotopes.

In 2005, a reassessment of residential property values resulted in a disproportionate number of houses owned by non-affluent people jumping in value relative to other houses, with hundreds having their property tax increased by over 100 %; this forced many homeowners in Cambridge to move elsewhere.

While people may gain celebrity status as a result of a successful career in a particular field ( primarily in the areas pertaining towards sports and entertainment ), in other cases, people become celebrities due to media attention for their extravagant lifestyle or wealth ( as in the case of a socialite ); for their connection to a famous person ( as in the case of a relative of a famous person ); or even for their misdeeds ( as in the case of a well-known criminal ).

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

Examples of such properties are structure ( i. e. the expected positions of the constituent atoms ), absolute and relative ( interaction ) energies, electronic charge distributions, dipoles and higher multipole moments, vibrational frequencies, reactivity or other spectroscopic quantities, and cross sections for collision with other particles.