There would have been two main advantages to having such large blooms, Professor Davis told the BBC News website.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Family found for gigantic flowers
"A majority of scientists lean toward the theory that it was a collision from a large interplanetary body, " said Professor Valeri Shuvalov of the Russian Institute of Geosphere Dynamics.
The Stanford University professor of biological sciences devotes a large amount of her time to taking a business perspective on land and water as a type of natural capital.
"Presumably, conditions were favourable on the Bering land bridge which was more of a large filter than an open highway, " suggested Professor Poinar.
Variability increases as components shrink, said Professor Asenov, who has been using large scale simulations on grid computers to study how the behaviour of transistors changes as they get smaller.
William Gerard Sanders, a professor at Brigham Young University, studied 257 large American companies in 1991-95.
Professor Offer buttresses his theoretical challenge with a large casebook from America and Britain.
Dr. John Kao is founder and chairman of the Institute for Large-Scale Innovation, a former Harvard Business School professor and author of the bestselling books Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity and Innovation Nation.
Professor Shadbolt said he was particularly concerned that a large number of MP websites had not been shortlisted because they had failed the accessibility test.
Professor Johnson said he would also like to see large areas of Australia designated as "wild country", where dingoes were accepted as a natural part of the ecosystem.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Dingo has 'vital ecosystem role'
So they are striking out to discredit Professor Moniz, his views, and the additional large body of academic research and practical experience proving the efficacy and safety of fracking.
In 1989, tinkering with materials he hoped would amplify electrical signals, Cambridge University physics professor Richard Friend and his graduate students were testing large organic molecules to see whether they were good insulators.
The problem is just as common in small businesses as large ones, says Wayne A. Hochwarter, a management professor at Florida State University's College of Business, who surveyed 980 workers in March and April on the topic.
Doug Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College, said the large sugary drink ban wasn't as simple as the smoking ban for the public to understand and support.
McKibben, a skinny and bookish professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, has found a large and passionate following among people frustrated with a lack of action on climate change, especially college students.
Professor SCOTT SILLIMAN (Professor, Duke University): The government comes with a very large hammer.
"A large number of patients are being treated uselessly, " says Fernando Martinez, professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona.
Much of the legal reasoning in any government brief would reflect in large part his personal thinking, gained from his years as a former constitutional law professor.
Michele Landis Dauber, a law professor at Stanford University who studies disaster-relief programs, said such a large undertaking could leave the group open to criticism depending on how it performs.
"Gibbons eat high quality food and need to move around a large territory quickly to find it, which involves crossing between tree crowns, " said Professor Robin Crompton of Liverpool University, an author on the study.
Many people succeed at producing innovations because they churn out a very large number of ideas, both good and bad, says Dean Keith Simonton, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis.
After taking samples from 21 spots along the coast, researchers expected to find the most caffeine pollution in areas near wastewater treatment plants, large population centers or rivers and streams emptying into the ocean, said Elise Granek, assistant professor of Environmental Science and Management at Portland State.
Professor KATHLEEN FLAKE (Vanderbilt University): He had to assure the public at large that he wasn't a demagogue, that he wasn't a fanatic, that he wasn't a cult member, and at the same time assure people of the far right that he wasn't going to abandon their need that religion be in the public square.
Some of it emerged from the first large-scale post-Burt study of separated identical twins, run by Thomas Bouchard, a professor at the University of Minnesota.
"I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for example, " says Ian Angell, Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics.
This has led Professor Potts to speculate that "his" hominid was part of a single population containing both large and small individuals.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Skull fuels Homo erectus debate
There had been a large body of work looking at different ways to control devices through vision-based gesture recognition, the professor said, but not so much had concentrated on movement.
"Katrina was a very large storm, high energy, high intensity coming across the gulf, " said Elizabeth English, an associate professor at Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center.
"It's the ability to interactively move through very high-definition, very large urban environments on the computer and in an interactive fashion, " said Bill Jepson, an architectural computing professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Professor Azim Surani, of the University of Cambridge, said the research should allow scientists to create a large range of human stem cell types, which could prove invaluable in studying disease.
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