Last year,a study in the medical journal Neurology found smoking to be an established risk factor in developing the disease.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

A log algorithm typically is one where you cut the size of the problem down by some multiplicative factor.

对数级复杂度的算法就是指,通过一系列常量级步数的操作,可以将问题的规模。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

and I don't think the violence is really a factor

我不认为暴力真的是一个负面因素，

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She was widely recognized by other researchers for her work with a protein called transforming growth factor-beta.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

And the top answer that was 82% was the Internet, something like 60% said they thought the availablity of guns was a significant factor in the Columbine's shooting.

高达82%的人认为是因为网络，约有60%的人认为,枪支的使用是一个重要因素,造成了这起枪杀案。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The third factor is a sense of pride in country and unity with other citizens.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.

我们原以为,在六个月到一年之内塔利班分子会减少成为一个很小的势利。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

VOA: special.2011.01.21

If you could introduce that gene you'd make the chemical, in this case it's a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor.

通过导入一种生成特殊化学物质的基因,这种疗法中指的是一种蛋白,叫做血管内皮生长因子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"So if you have hoarseness with tobacco or alcohol use, that would be a significant risk factor for cancer or other problems of the throat that could be serious.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Also to point out, a lot of times you'll see electron volts instead of joules, this is the conversion factor here just so you all have it in your notes.

同样也要指出，很多情况下你会看到,电子伏特而不是焦耳，这里是换算因子,你们在讲义上都能找到。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The Canadian-American writer John Geiger wrote about this in a recent book called The Third Man Factor. The book will soon be published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

But let's suppose that I realize that I'm doing a lot of addition in my programs, and I actually want to factor out what seems to becoming a lot of copy, paste.

但是假如我在程序中做了很多加法,我实际上想要提出那些,复制粘贴的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One reporter questioned whether the artificial turf at San Jose's Ricardo Saprissa Stadium was a major factor in that loss.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

And that's why, I ended up using a multiplicative factor, rather than an additive factor.

这也是为什么，我最后使用一个倍增因子，而不是用一个加法因子。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Weather is not believed to be a factor. Witnesses say they did not see any fire before the plane broke apart.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The first one uses something called Z a compressibility factor, z.

下面我们就来看几个例子,第一种办法是引入压缩系数。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"It's a risk factor in a similar way that elevated cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease."

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Cost, ah, there is a factor that may be a determinant.

有一个决定性的因素。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In order to attract the rabbit's own stem cells to re-grow the cartilage, channels in the scaffold were filled with a growth factor protein.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

And it turned out they got it wrong by a factor of about two.

结果发现他们把注意的人数,高估了一倍。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Columnist David Ignatius agrees with the president's move, saying Pakistan is a key factor in the new strategy,and the pressure on it must be increased.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

So multiplying a vector by a number means stretch it by that factor.

所以用数字乘以矢量,就相当于将它伸长了相应的倍数

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Incumbent leader Hamid Karzai currently holds some But if turns out that vote fraud was a significant factor in the election, then the percentages become meaningless.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Fiber is related at a risk for some diseases, particularly some cancers, and therefore the low fiber intake that we have now compared to what our ancestors had is a factor.

纤维素可以抵抗一些疾病,尤其是某些癌症,相对古人来说我们摄入量偏低,因此我们对一些癌症的抵抗能力就低

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So,that is being a factor that is constraining for the progress for those countries."

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Has that been a factor?

这是一个因素吗？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"We know that it is a risk factor but we can't attribute the rise in autism to the shifting trend towards having children later in life."

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

Essentially for our purposes here, you can just think of it as a conversion factor.

就是去掉库伦标签，这就是我们。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They were off by a factor of four.

它们不属于四大元素之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选