narrow

Examples of narrow in the following topics:

• Scoping Your Topic

  • Once you have generated a variety of ideas, it is time to narrow the topic to ensure it fits the scope of your speech.
  • Now the goal is to narrow your aim and find the bull's-eye !
  • If you have a shorter amount of time, you will need to narrow the scope of your speech.
  • Use time constraints to your benefit, let them guide you to narrow the scope of your speech.
  • Narrowing your topic is like finding the right spot on the target to aim at.

• Pelvic Structure and Childbearing

  • The human pelvis has evolved to be narrow enough for efficient upright locomotion, while still being wide enough to facilitate childbirth.
  • The human pelvis is narrower and smaller than that of our closest living relatives, the apes.
  • This narrowing of the pelvis has also affected the way humans give birth, as a narrow pelvis makes it more difficult for an infant to move through the birth canal.
  • Male pelves are not constrained by the issue of childbirth, and thus are narrower and more optimal for bipedal locomotion .
  • The male pelvis is narrower than that of the female, as can be seen by the less than 90 degree angle of the pubic arch.

• Spectrum of Antimicrobial Activity

  • The range of bacteria that an antibiotic affects can be divided into narrow spectrum and broad spectrum.
  • Narrow spectrum antibiotics act against a limited group of bacteria, either gram positive or gram negative, for example sodium fusidate only acts against staphylococcal bacteria.
  • A broad spectrum antibiotic acts against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, in contrast to a narrow spectrum antibiotic, which is effective against specific families of bacteria.
  • Broad spectrum antibiotics are also used for drug resistant bacteria that do not respond to other, more narrow spectrum antibiotics and in the case of superinfections, where there are multiple types of bacteria causing illness, thus warranting either a broad-spectrum antibiotic or combination antibiotic therapy.

• Organizing Your Research Plan

  • Narrow the scope of your argument by identifying the specific subtopic you will research.
  • If you narrow your focus, however, you can find targeted resources that can be synthesized into a new argument.
  • After narrowing your focus, think about key search terms that will apply only to your subtopic.
  • Develop specific questions that can be answered through your research process, but be careful not to choose a focus that is overly narrow.
  • Then in step two you may narrow it down to 19th-century British science fiction, and then narrow it down even further to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

• Gas Vesicles

  • They provide more buoyancy per unit of protein than narrow gas vesicles.
  • Different species produce gas vesicles of different diameters, allowing them to colonize different depths of the water column (fast growing, highly competitive species with wide gas vesicles in the top most layers; slow growing, dark-adapted, species with strong narrow gas vesicles in the deeper layers).
  • This will select for species with narrower, stronger gas vesicles.

• Comparison of Female and Male Pelves

  • A wide pelvis is beneficial for child birth, however a narrow pelvis is beneficial for locomotion when walking upright.
  • The female pelvis is larger and broader than the male pelvis which is taller (owing to a higher iliac crest), narrower, and more compact.
  • The male sacrum is long, narrow, straighter, and has a pronounced sacral promontory.

• Measuring the Money Supply: M2

  • Instead there are several measures, classified along a continuum between narrow and broad monetary aggregates.
  • Narrow measures include only the most liquid assets, the ones most easily used to spend (for example, currency and checkable deposits).
  • Narrow measures include those more directly affected and controlled by monetary policy, whereas broader measures are less closely related to monetary policy actions.

• Vascular Spasm

  • Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels, which reduces blood loss during injury.
  • Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the smooth muscle wall of the vessels, particularly in the large arteries and small arterioles.

• Reform Darwinism

  • While Darwin himself chiefly used the term "Reform Darwinism" in its narrow sense for his own special purpose, he warned his followers against committing the error (which he seems once to have committed himself) of overrating its narrow meaning.
  • "Those communities," he wrote, "which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring. " The term, which originated from the narrow Malthusian conception of competition between each and all, thus lost its narrowness in the mind of one who knew Nature.
  • But he foresaw that the term "evolution," which he was introducing into science, would lose its philosophical and only true meaning if it were used in its narrow sense only—a struggle between separate individuals for the sole purpose of existence.

• General Purpose

  • As the speaker begins to refine the thesis and create supporting arguments, the pyramid gets narrower and narrower as he or she drives the point home.
  • The widest part is the topic; as the speaker refines and hones his or her purpose into a thesis and supporting arguments, he or she narrows the speech down.