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He and his colleagues studied minnows swimming in water rich with carbon dioxide and found that the fish don't respond as quickly to alarm signals released by other minnows.
It is hardly being brought to its knees by minnows.
Giant tech companies may anyway prey on both whales and minnows.
Uber and Airbnb are minnows that don't even make the top 300.
Beleaguered farmers, more used to dealing with political minnows, are perking up.
The minnows are still swimming It is not just Iceland making magic.
Latin America's other state oil champions are minnows next to Petrobras and Pemex.
Being a whale in a pool with four minnows isn't a great situation.
This week, our winnowed minnows headed into the primaries and began to caucus.
Both remain minnows compared with Tether: USD Coin has a market capitalisation of $297m.
Just over six months later, Mourinho was coaching Primeira Liga minnows União de Leiria.
But also bad news for lake trout, which relied on the minnows as prey.
The minnows' share has fallen to a tenth, while the whales have boosted theirs.
Dividing funds purely between relative minnows would have achieved this in the short term.
Confused and distracted, they sieved every stream with their fingers for minnows or frogs.
Fifty yards from the campsite, they saw some minnows they wanted to show little DeOrr.
Which is to say that the Albanians are minnows in Europe's great big soccer pond.
The proliferation of tools for developers, and more specifically those aimed at helping developers work with APIs, will inevitably lead to more consolidation, with bigger fish swallowing up some of the minnows, or the minnows coming together for a stronger proposition to the market.
Tier three are the minnows, mostly happy to just be invited, if they are at all.
The big fish were awarded scores of 4.9 on average, compared with 4.7 for the minnows.
The result of all this is that carriers will only be fully effective against military minnows.
The fetid water smells like rotten eggs and has brought with it tadpoles, minnows and algae.
Uruguay is now doing to Russia what Russia did to the group's minnows: Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Big players like Ethiopian Airlines are the obvious winners from that process, leaving little room for minnows.
Sixty percent of the minnows pay less than $252 per month, and 249 percent spend between $30-223.
Both plan to base more flights at bigger airports in the next few years, worsening the minnows' woes.
You might feel more fortunate than colleagues who have picked minnows Albania or Hungary out of the hat.
Unlike some of his peers, Lerer reckons these minnows can have mutually beneficial relationships with giants like Facebook.
State of the Art In the technology industry, the sharks have never long been safe from the minnows.
While bass typically eat smaller fish like perch and minnows, this one was clearly hankering for something more substantial.
If there is to be any Brexit dividend, it is most likely to go to minnows such as these.
But that is a terrifying prospect: Not only is Italy's debt huge, but Italy's banks are not minnows, either.
About 50 yards away from the campsite, Kunz spotted some minnows that he thought his son would love to see.
Which kind of firm is best placed to deal with slower growth: giants, minnows or medium-sized firms like Zegna?
But uneven enforcement has allowed industry minnows to outcompete larger rivals and raise production, say industry and environment ministry officials.
"We have menhaden, glass minnows, sand eels, bunker," he said before reeling in a bluefish in less than a minute.
It lay down on a portion of the sculpture painted to look like water, but found no tuna or minnows.
Kunz says they made it 50 yards from the site before discovering some minnows he thought DeOrr would love to see.
The point is that a similar dynamic could affect a huge number of content creators, from the whales to the minnows.
Minnows are pitted against whales, which means people around the world have found themselves cheering for Iceland for the first time.
Ladbrokes does not offer odds on all the minnows, and the likes of Andorra or Liechtenstein would have even longer odds.
The high-punching feats of Iceland and Wales at the Euros told a similar story of minnows not knowing their place.
There was competition, basically, and relative minnows rarely last long when they go swimming with sharks, however hilarious their own bite.
The colorful minnows who survive the early rounds give the tournament its (well-marketed) charm, but this year there aren't any.
FIFA now plans to expand the tournament to 48 teams, raising the prospect of more minnows like Panama among the sharks.
What this also means is that Bharara and prosecutors like him have set their nets to trawl for minnows, not sharks.
The other finals have included one win for plucky minnows Chelsea, and two for happy-go-lucky overachievers Manchester City, the scamps.
The teams spray houses, put larvicide in water sources or even drop tilapia minnows, which eat mosquito larvae, into pools of water.
The last Club World Cup, which pitted Europe's Real Madrid against minnows from other continents, generated a measly $37 million in revenue.
So you have this big chart here, so sharks and minnows, meaning either you are going to buy or get bought. Meantime.
Such mini-tournaments could also be held for teams from the lower divisions from different confederations, creating a sort of 'minnows World Cup'.
It is still a big fish among the opposition minnows, and the only likely rallying point for a serious challenge to the BJP.
Unfortunately, there is little reason to believe that the other financial minnows of English football will be able to replicate Leicester City's success.
Pretty much all the minnows are in favor of everything EU because it stands up for their interests against the bigger bully-boys.
The hitches go behind the eye of a standard hook or through the thin plastic tubes that make some salmon flies resemble minnows.
A vast majority of these are small boats with playful names like Fin N Tonic and Swim Lessons — the minnows of the category.
But the fact of the matter is, I think media is undergoing a big layer of what I would call sharks and minnows.
That deal is seen as test case for Hebei's ambitious experiment, hastening sector consolidation, ousting inefficient minnows and creating mega-mills to compete globally.
On current form and on a neutral ground, those minnows would have around a one-in-eight shot of knocking out Germany or Argentina.
Pletsch retired from football in 2010, having also played for FC Kaiserslautern, Serbian side Vojvodina, Greek club Panionios G.S.S. and Cypriot minnows AC Omonia.
In a wet spring, the water'd run clear and high, minnows mouthing the sand and silt, a crawdad shadowed by the shore's long reeds.
Yet the experience is a relative joy ride for the Haitians, who are the underfinanced minnows swimming among pampered sharks in this month's tournament.
Though they consist largely of minnows, the public and co-operative sectors are serious rivals, accounting for most deposits, mortgages and lending to companies.
The dead fish were mostly minnows, but state inspectors also found smaller numbers of catfish, suckers, darters, gar and small largemouth bass, Mura said.
But he struggled to break through in their talent-congested squad, moving on to Werder Bremen before settling at Bundesliga minnows Freiburg in 2015.
The environmental damage should deeply trouble a state that has moved to shut down an entire industry in order to protect delta smelt minnows.
The other games this week match up comparative soccer minnows: Benfica versus Zenit St. Petersburg on Tuesday and Belgium's Gent against Germany's Wolfsburg on Wednesday.
They're also spraying larvacide and planting thousands of minnows in the waterways to gobble up the mosquito larvae before they can grow into dangerous adults.
That's why Neymar and Mbappé have been brought to Paris — not merely to swat aside some of the competition's relative minnows in the group stages.
That is pretty standard for the Coupe de France, a tournament that is designed, in many ways, to encourage the minnows to overthrow the mighty.
This provided a lifeline to minnows such as BC Iron , but at the same time kept supply in the market that should have been closed down.
But Denmark is much more highly regarded than South Africa and Iraq, the minnows against which Brazil could not muster a win, let alone a goal.
This provided a lifeline to minnows such as BC Iron, but at the same time kept supply in the market that should have been closed down.
And one fish grazes against him, rips the sack, and his body tumbles out, and a bunch of minnows come and eat little bits of him.
But although reaching that lucrative group stage is nearly impossible for Europe's minnows, the prize money they receive merely for participating can have a transformative effect.
The All Blacks' recent purple patch, however, included World Cup fixtures against minnows Namibia, Georgia and Tonga, and a three-match home series against an ailing Wales.
Europe must have an intervention force limited to members able and willing to deploy assets, including Britain, not one burdened by minnows in the name of "inclusivity".
It's fair to say that they fulfilled their incredibly low hopes, mainly by losing to France, drawing with Switzerland and then losing again to fellow minnows Albania.
While Pepsi's soda business continues to be profitable, it faces steep competition from both minnows and titans in fighting for a hold on brands that are growing.
Against this supersized backdrop Viacom, a content provider with a market value of nearly $11bn, and CBS, a television network worth some $17bn, look like flailing minnows.
Manchester United also needed the intervention of an ageing great to beat minnows Zorya as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who turns 35 on Monday, headed home a second-half winner.
His name is bait and we are the minnows nipping at it, even if we only manage to grab the most miniscule chunk of worm meat a.k.a. content.
We stood there for a few seconds before my boy decided he wanted to walk off the path to the creek to look for rocks, minnows, and bugs.
This season, there is an incongruous presence in the little league: an expansion team from the largest city in Canada mixing it up with minnows of English rugby.
Perhaps even more alarming, Canadian scientists conducted a seven-year experiment on a lake in Ontario, adding endocrine disrupting chemicals and then observing the impact on fathead minnows.
I think there's a lot of questions about some, and there's always in the sharks and minnows game a Megalodon that lurks in the back, which is Liberty.
Countless people, from AM radio minnows in Binghamton to ex-players in Bristol, have their loud jobs to do before Sunday's conference championship games, and they will do them.
The discrepancy has helped minnows raise output by nearly a quarter in the first five months of this year, CISA data showed, against 6.2% by the association's own members.
It is time the big fish of global finance diverted their gaze from the gadding of the minnows to take a look at their own reflections in the aquarium.
UEFA could invite "Big Five" teams who miss out on qualification spots in their domestic leagues to compete against the minnows in an expanded playoff before the pool stages.
But it was not only the big names that shone, with European minnows getting their chance to showcase their skills and potentially qualify for the European Championship in 2020.
I stare down into that other kingdom below me, at the minnows darting through the duckweed, and feel deeply free — no one's watching; no one knows where I am.
In contrast, long term rival Cristiano Ronaldo has managed 33 goals, however almost a quarter of those (7) came in the space of two games against international minnows Lithuania.
Larger Chinese tyremakers are also spending to make bigger tyres but most of China's minnows, after years of competing furiously on price, have precious little spare cash for such investment.
Pre-match forecasts gave the continent's perennial minnows barely a 1% chance of toppling mighty England before their meeting in the Six Nations on February 26th, and with good reason.
In UMBC's one regular-season game against a nationally competitive opponent, the Retrievers were crushed by Arizona, 103-78; the remainder of their schedule consisted of matchups against other minnows.
Russia, who won silver in Athens eight years ago, were unexpectedly pushed by minnows Angola, who went toe-to-toe with them in the first 20 minutes of the game.
The two dozen states that want a legally binding ban on fully autonomous weapons are mostly military minnows like Djibouti and Peru, but some members, such as Austria, have diplomatic sway.
His potential gradually tailed off during his time in Italy, and he was packed off on a couple of loan spells before permanently joining Sport Recife and then Turkish minnows Sivasspor.
TUVALU and Nauru, lonely miniature outposts in the western Pacific, are just two of the minnows that enjoy making a splash when they swim with the big fish of the Commonwealth.
A new Super League could be designed to exclude such minnows, and allow the continent's best teams to play each other every week, with domestic competitions acting as a second tier.
This European championship, which begins Friday night with France facing Romania, has understandably been labeled the tournament of minnows after the field was expanded to 2000 teams this year from 21986.
Through heat-jellied water, my diver's mask reveals an aquarium of striped fish and fish with long Hitchcockian faces and tiny minnows hungrily scrumming at a scratch on my boy's knee.
History suggests that Australia's mining minnows are like the canaries in the coal mine for broader commodity markets, chirping enthusiastically when prices are rising but dying off faster when the market turns.
But most either have lots of TIEAs with the countries where their clients live (Hong Kong, for instance) or are minnows that even Mr Saint-Amans won't lose sleep over (like Dominica).
After rescuing 10,000 endangered silvery minnows from drying up with the river, the federal government had to lease $2 million of groundwater from Albuquerque in order to keep the Rio Grande flowing.
MOSCOW — They are largely minnows in the soccer world, countries that have far fewer people and far less money than the countries they had to beat to get to the World Cup.
The organization tested the material on minnows and birds with no ill effects, according to data provided in its research paper, but still needs to evaluate how it would affect marine mammals.
San Marino are the plucky minnows, standing up to the fearsome German shark that is circling them, and media outlets in Britain and beyond are more than happy to indulge the narrative.
Finally, to reduce the distorting effect of hapless minnows like the Cayman Islands and Bhutan, we whittled down our results to the 2002 countries that have played at least 150 matches since 1990.
Finally, to reduce the distorting effect of hapless minnows like the Cayman Islands and Bhutan, we whittled down our results to the 126 countries that have played at least 150 matches since 1990.
Until very recently, Western Europe looked a lot like the United States, with Samsung commanding more than a third of the market, Apple in a close second spot, and minnows picking up the scraps.
While it's true that South Africa and Ukraine are minnows in the overall China iron ore story, it's instructive that the four big miners have been unable to knock them out of the game.
The region is home to more than 640 million people, many of whom follow soccer avidly even if their national teams are relative minnows with none having ever qualified for the World Cup finals.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Real Madrid thrashed Deportivo La Coruna 6-2 to stay level with Barcelona at the top of La Liga on Wednesday after the Catalans crushed Osasuna 353-1, condemning the minnows to relegation.
Toyota's Lexus division and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), a British-based Indian-owned firm with, not coincidentally, a former BMW executive in charge, have mounted the most successful challenge but are still minnows in comparison.
In August 2014, between 2,000 and 3,000 fish—including bullhead, minnows, chub, and dace—were found dead in Widemarsh Brook, a small stream connected to the Yazor Brook watercourse, which runs through parts of Herefordshire.
Birds were represented by Japanese quail; brown shrimp, pink shrimp and oysters were used to represent shellfish; houseflies and moths joined the cockroaches to represent insects; and guppies and minnows were used to represent fish.
The battle for survival in the iron ore sector, in other words, looks set to resume with the "big three" saturating a shrinking market and forcing out plucky but ultimately doomed minnows such as Atlas.
When they slapped the handcuffs on me and dragged me off, he actually thought I'd been kidnapped by a gang posing as cops, since real police wouldn't throw away the marlin in favor of the minnows.
In 2013-14, for example, investigators found that nearly 90 percent of DraftKings' customers lost money, suggesting a major gulf between the casual players — or "minnows," in betting parlance — and the professional players known as sharks.
The proposed groups of eight would exacerbate the problem of uncompetitive fixtures if too many minnows reach them—few fans want to see an underdog struggle through 14 drubbings—or if two potential qualifiers quickly pull ahead.
The Russians as hosts did not need to qualify for the World Cup and their ranking of 70 in the world was the lowest among all teams in Russia, even lower than international football minnows Saudi Arabia.
Minnows that have very little chance of beating a top opponent in 90 minutes would be incentivized to play very defensively and hope for penalty shootouts, where their chances of winning would be close to 50 percent.
So you go from six qualifying regions to three, which means the 48 teams that qualify are more likely to be the best teams in the world rather than stacked teams from powerhouse regions and minnows from others.
While the sheer number of small companies that "don't make any money" in the Russell might make the index less than enticing, O'Leary said it's well worth searching for the biggest fish in a lake filled with minnows.
This documentary follows the wildlife filmmaker Charlie Hamilton James to Wisconsin, where he meets three orphaned river otter cubs who are learning how to swim, chase minnows and master other skills for their eventual release into the wild.
And now, a lost summer looms as teams like Poland — as well as minnows such as Wales, Albania, Northern Ireland and Iceland — prepare to take part in an expanded European Championship while the Dutch, somehow, have to stay home.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - New tech and resources for studying opponents are letting World Cup minnows cramp the style of bigger teams, Roberto Martinez said as his Belgium side prepare to try and break down a well-organized Tunisia on Saturday.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Armed with Beijing funds and friends in the right places, Chinese drug minnows are thriving, luring money from 'Big Pharma' majors struggling to restore the strong growth they once enjoyed in the world's second-largest medicine market.
China wants to host and win the World Cup but is currently only No. 81 in FIFA's rankings, below sporting minnows like Curacao and the tiny island nation of St Kitts & Nevis, with a population of just 56,000 people.
Rafinha rounded off the most comfortable of Barca victories with a curled finish in the 64th minute, although Gabriel Appelt salvaged a goal for the Madrid minnows in the 80th with a free-kick whipped into the top corner.
Last year, both companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ads that promised pay-outs for everyday fans, though the Schneiderman's office found that 94% of users lost money as a result of the "sharks and minnows" problem.
The long-stymied foreign banks are still minnows compared with China's state-owned giants, but their assets in the country have increased by 40% in the past two years to almost $650bn, a third more than the total in Japan.
They have suffered head-scratching losses on their home court to minnows like the Dallas Mavericks and Detroit Pistons, and are allowing their opponents to score more points per possession than the league average for the first time since 2012.
"It doesn't matter if you know how to fish when there are only minnows to be caught," I tell her, while thinking about all the other things that have handicapped foreign-born, non-Caucasian women like the both of us.
Another was that having just three firms would actually limit the dominance of the biggest fish—usually the former monopoly, such as Deutsche Telekom or British Telecom—because the two smaller players would challenge the biggest, not scrap with other minnows.
But he may still have to rely on independents and small parties (two minnows, Bob Katter and Cathy McGowan, say they will back the prime minister), who are also likely to hold the balance in the Senate, the upper house.
In New Mexico, stretches of the Rio Grande — another one of North America&aposs longest rivers — have already gone dry as biologists have been forced to scoop up as many endangered Rio Grande silvery minnows as possible so they can be moved upstream.
Little wonder then that the great powers spend so much time courting the minnows, and showering them with aid, to keep them on side when resolutions come up before the UN. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
Analyzing 700,20113 drug arrests using this data for 2004, 2008 and 2012, the authors of the "Sharks and Minnows" paper found that about 40 percent of those arrests were for possessing or selling a quarter of a gram or less of drugs.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane denied his side were facing a crisis after they drew 1-1 at home to La Liga minnows Eibar and racked up a fourth consecutive draw for the first time in more than 10 years.
In "Kanini & Kanino," the Academy Award-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi ("The Secret World of Arrietty") tells the story of two crab brothers who encounter menacing minnows and stampeding raccoons (the crab boys are very, very small) on a quest to save their dad.
What this tells you is that small-capitalisation resource stocks have been the outperformer, but if you believe history is a guide then it is worth noting that the minnows have in the past rallied and peaked prior to major companies and overall commodity prices.
They say the claim is beyond the jurisdiction of the court in The Hague Nobody expects the Marshall Islands to force the three powers to disarm, but the archipelago's dogged campaign highlights the growing scope for political minnows to get a hearing through global tribunals.
So, basically, the United States will host one normal-sized World Cup, including all the matches that will be actually interesting once the minnows get eliminated, while Mexico and Canada get to host a few scrappy contests between, like, Morocco and Australia or some such.
In addition to the minnows, it will have to keep in line the 53 MPs of the Democrat Party, Thailand's oldest, and the 51 of the Bhumjaithai Party, an openly transactional operation, to maintain its slim majority of 255 of the 500 seats in the lower house.
OU KRALANH, Cambodia/TOLAKCHUIN, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Phally Chhiv placed a pot of simmering soup filled with fish and greens on a wooden platform outside her one-room home in northwestern Cambodia - using nutrient-packed minnows that experts hope can help to end global hunger.
Rugby fans rejoiced when tiny Japan vanquished South Africa at the 2015 World Cup, and when minnows Kenya and America won their first seven-a-side tournaments in the last year (both have an outside chance of collecting an Olympic medal at the Rio games this summer).
" Left in the care of her drunken father, 6-year-old Kya quickly learns how to placate this violent man, a lesson taught by the minnows in a nearby stream: "Just keep out of the way, don't let him see you, dart from sunspots to shadows.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Atletico Madrid became the surprise table toppers on Sunday after beating Valencia 2-0 following a thrilling day of La Liga action which saw champions Barcelona lose 4-3 at Celta Vigo and Real Madrid held to a 503-1 draw at home to minnows Eibar.
France 245, Iceland 22 | European Championships ST.-DENIS, France — For the last three weeks, Iceland's men's soccer team played with will and whimsy and wonder, the tiniest among the minnows at this European Championships stunning the soccer world as it wrote a fairy tale that kept getting better.
While it's true that suppliers such as Brazil and the United States are minnows compared to Saudi Arabia and Russia when it comes to meeting China's oil needs, the point is that they seem able to take up the slack of any lower shipments from producers that may be restricting output.
But what I think should happen, I think that in that world, if they were like sharks and minnows like media, then you think there is Amazon and Apple, and we haven't even talked about repatriation of cash, which is relevant to a lot of your political interest as well.
That's the sharks and minnows, but if you think about our world, the world you and I cover a lot all the time, social media or internet overall, rather than it looking like it's coming to some finite end of some kind of whatever, all of a sudden AI pops up.
"We've gotten so used to the idea that this is normal to arrest so many people for tiny amounts of drugs, but it's not normal," said Joseph E. Kennedy, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law who was an author of a paper titled Sharks and Minnows in the War on Drugs: A Study of Quantity, Race and Drug Type in Drug Arrests.
Nobody comes out of the revelations well: not Infantino, craven and crawling; not UEFA, willing to prosecute the minnows while the sharks swim free; not the clubs, led by Bayern Munich, who talked of leaving not only UEFA but FIFA itself in search of more money; not Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, who has called for those guilty of "dirty tricks" to be punished, which would coincidentally help several of the teams in his competition; not the clubs or organizations who should be righteously angry at flagrant rule breaches but who have maintained the silence of the complicit; and certainly not City — or, for that matter, Paris Saint-Germain — who signed up to a set of rules and promptly searched for ways to break them.

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