Although the North Aral Sea is currently rising, the South Aral Sea is still dropping, thus expanding the size of the desert.

He retreats to Maicheng, where he is heavily surrounded by Sun Quan's forces, while his army gradually shrinks in size as many of his troops desert or surrender to the enemy.

* Desert pavement, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments of pebble and cobble size

The desert form is paler and called pallida, vernayi of the Eastern Ghats is brighter while parvula of the Western Ghats is smaller in size.

The Chinese mountain cat ( Felis bieti ), also known as the Chinese desert cat and the Chinese steppe cat, is a wild cat of western China that has been classified as Vulnerable by IUCN, as the effective population size may be fewer than 10, 000 mature breeding individuals.

It is the world's second largest shifting sand desert with about 85 % made up of shifting sand dunes ranking 18th in size in a ranking of the world's largest non-polar deserts.

* Sandworms of varying size are common threats native to the fictional desert planet Motavia in Sega's original Phantasy Star series of JRPGs.

While the North Aral Sea is presently rising thanks to a dike, the South Aral Sea kept dropping, thus expanding the size of the desert, until 2010, when the South Aral Sea was partly reflooded.

It is about 155, 000 square kilometres ( 60, 000 square miles ) in size, making it the 5th largest desert in Australia, after the Great poo, Great Victoria, Tanami and Simpson deserts.

However, desert Lepidoptera often show great natural variations in population size in response to climatic conditions, and surveys may more accurately reflect population status in years with above-normal rainfall.

Because of its compact size, plus its low water use and low maintenance, Huachuca agave is considered a good landscaping plant for desert residential landscaping.

He comes from the swamp planet of Manpha, and joins the band on Tatooine, but he confines himself to Jabba's palace due to the unpleasant desert environment, even though his small size places him in constant danger of being eaten.

the athlete of by-gone years who wears a size 46 suit and puffs when he has finished a sentence of any length then, it is time to break it up and move on.

recommend to the Congress from time to time authorization for construction and operation, or for participation in the construction and operation, of a demonstration plant for any process which he determines, on the basis of subsections ( A ) and ( B ) above, has great promise of accomplishing the purposes of this Act, such recommendation to be accompanied by a report on the size, location, and cost of the proposed plant and the engineering and economic details with respect thereto ; ;

In addition, land has been purchased to permit doubling the size of the plant in the future.

The graphite was National Carbon NC 60, which has a porosity of 50% and an average pore size of 30.

The importance of particle size in such aerosols has been thoroughly demonstrated.

For 10 years Sponsor has issued an annual survey of the size and characteristics of the Negro market and of successful techniques for reaching this market through radio.

And I've been told that just about every town, no matter what its size, has its Lucille Warren.

: Generally, the more carefully the areal factor has been investigated, the smaller the size of the residue open to the genetic explanation has tended to become.

AES is a variant of Rijndael which has a fixed block size of 128 bits, and a key size of 128, 192, or 256 bits.

C. crocodilus, the Spectacled Caiman, has the widest distribution, from southern Mexico to the northern half of Argentina, and grows to a modest size of about 2. 2 meters.

Therefore, given any positive integer n, it produces a string with Kolmogorov complexity at least as great as n. The program itself has a fixed length U. The input to the program GenerateComplexString is an integer n. Here, the size of n is measured by the number of bits required to represent n, which is log < sub > 2 </ sub >( n ).

These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

As a unit of measure, an acre has no prescribed shape ; any perimeter enclosing 43, 560 square feet is an acre in size.

Given the United States ' large size it has numerous regional variations.

It has the thinnest soundbox and the smallest overall size of the major styles, making it very comfortable to play but also one of the quietest.

As the size of the Australian diaspora has increased, so has the number of clubs outside Australia.

In the end firing data has two components: quadrant elevation and azimuth, to these may be added the size of propelling charge and the fuze setting.

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

These were increased both in number and in size, contained prominent nucleoli, and were distributed throughout the fiber ( Figs. 2 - 5 ).

For private suits the minimum jury size was 201 ( increased to 401 if a sum of over 1000 drachmas was at issue ), for public suits 501.

While still tightly linked to the court culture and absolutism, with its formality and emphasis on order and hierarchy, the new style was also a cleaner style — one that favored clearer divisions between parts, brighter contrasts and colors, and simplicity rather than complexity, and the typical orchestra size increased.

The Orchestra increased in size and range ; the harpsichord continuo fell out of use, and the woodwind became a self-contained section.

This oxygen level probably increased wildfire activity, as well as resulted in insect and amphibian gigantism -- creatures whose size is constrained by respiratory systems that are limited in their ability to diffuse oxygen.

Given a fixed budget, this can allow an increased sample size.

As the basis set size is increased, the energy and wave function tend towards a limit called the Hartree – Fock limit.

For siege warfare the size of crossbows was further increased to hurl large projectiles such as rocks at fortifications.

Greater body size implies increased muscle mass and increased oxygen stores.

The size of the typical cruising boat has increased over the years and is currently in the range of 10 to 15 metres although smaller boats have been used in around-the-world trips, but are generally not recommended given the dangers involved.

The draugr's ability to increase its size also increased its weight, and the body of the draugr was described as being extremely heavy.

As soon as you do this, the String class becomes larger, and people who don't need to use regex still have to " pay " for it in increased library size.

A class size experiment in the United States found that attending small classes for 3 or more years in the early grades increased high school graduation rates of students from low income families.

The need for the amplified guitar became apparent during the big band era as orchestras increased in size, particularly when guitars had to compete with large brass sections.

The most significant of these adaptations are 1. bipedalism, 2. increased brain size, 3. lengthened ontogeny ( gestation and infancy ), 4. decreased sexual dimorphism.

A class size experiment in the United States found that attending small classes for 3 or more years in the early grades increased high school graduation of students from low income families.

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

With only five or six human generations in 150 years, time for natural selection has been very limited, suggesting that increased skeletal size resulting from changes in population phenotypes is more likely than recent genetic evolution.

Each size has merits and shortcomings ; a smaller handgun usually sacrifices ammunition capacity, recoil damping and / or long-range accuracy for increased concealability and ease of use by smaller-framed shooters.

By 1775, Washington had doubled the size of Mount Vernon to, and had increased its slave population to over 100.

In the 1990s, bananas were booming again, particularly as new European trade agreements increased market size.

Extraction of an additional electron from iron by oxygen is required to explain both iron's smaller size and observed increased oxidation state, and oxygen's weaker bond.

With the German colonization, the Empire increased in size and came to include the Duchy of Pomerania as well as Bohemia and the March of Moravia.