Sentences with phrase «at the mass scale»

The big problem with adopting solar or wind energy at a mass scale is the fact that there's no affordable way to store that energy for the grid when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing.

In Facebook, Zuckerberg has built what's arguably the first - ever technology allowing a foreign power to spread propaganda within the borders of the U.S. at mass scale without being detected.

We're in this last phase but to win we need to change tactics, from using guilt to draw attention to instead using persuasion to change behavior and policy at a mass scale.

Not exact matches

By involving users in the story and the experience, Duracell creates an experience that scales, one group at a time, and an image that's worth sharing with the masses.

Can Tesla make the shift away from being just a luxury player to a mass - market carmaker at scale?

This is the first premeditated mass shooting at this scale that involved people who both grew up entirely in a world in which mass shootings were common and which targeted people old enough to have a voice.

Paul Graham points out that sometimes doing what does not scale is essential to enabling critical mass which does allow a business to scale: «One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale.

The non-Fascist, the anti-Fascist, was approaching a point at which he would have to ask himself whether the parish church was still his church; he was now having to go to mass early in the morning if he wished to avoid the sermon, which too often comprised a full - scale attack on all the democratic, masonic Governments which were opposing the providential plans of the Duce.

Because producing food «intensively» (on a mass scale, in a location that enjoys advantages of climate and other environmental factors, with the addition of specialized technology, etc.) may, at least in some dimensions, be more environmentally - friendly than areas with less intensified production (because greater intensity often means more efficient).

If at anytime you are planning on going to large scale mass production using a purchased pattern, I strongly suggest you obtain a legal opinion before you proceed.

Consequently, after the president was overthrown, the former rebels started mass scale actions aimed at the humiliation of the troops.

The aim of the partnership, the New York Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium, is to develop a mass - scale manufacturing method for the chips, which would put New York state at the forefront of the technology.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a program Wednesday to refurbish the region's mass transit system, after scaling back the cost of the program at the insistence of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Nevertheless, neutrinos ought to interact with the universe's mass on the largest scales: as these particles careen through the universe at near light - speed, they interact with ordinary matter and tend to smooth out variations in density.

It doesn't necessarily make sense, said Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State, that a massive star could undergo a supernova — a process which entails blowing off much of its outer layers — and still have enough mass left over to form a massive black hole on the scale of those that LIGO detected.

Cardoso counters that this apparent mass only affects things at a subatomic level — the photon's real mass is what matters at the scale of the black hole.

In contrast, the black holes that created the second event were relative flyweights, tipping the scales at 14 and eight times the mass of the sun.

In a universe similar to ours, an inference device may involve a set of digital scales that you will stand on at noon tomorrow and the question relate to your mass at that time.

Tipping the scales at less than about a million suns in mass, middleweight black holes may hold clues to how their much larger siblings, and galaxies, first formed

At the largest scales mass communication describes communication to huge numbers of individuals through mass media.

Their findings elucidate the physics of light - matter coupling at these scales — and pave the way for enhanced signal processing on mass - producible silicon photonic chips.

Water vapor seen at these infrared wavelengths is in the upper and middle levels of the troposphere, where the winds are ruled by large - scale air masses.

For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

Theoretically, you could pattern metamaterials at that tiny scale using specialized methods like focused beams of charged atoms, but such materials would be difficult to mass - produce.

«It occurred to us that mass killings and school shootings that attract attention in the national news media can potentially do the same thing, but at a larger scale,» Towers said.

They plan to scale up the technology for low - cost, mass production of the fibers aimed at commercializing high - performance micro-supercapacitors.

Moreover, earlier galaxy surveys suggested that superclusters do not grow larger on ever grander scales, but top out at some maximum size and mass.

There are always mass transfer and cost issues that overwhelm even pilot scale projects and the costs becomes exceedingly high quickly,» added Julio Friedmann, a CCS expert at U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

A strategic focus is to continue to develop computational tools (such as KinomeXplorer, NetworKIN, and NetPhorest) and to deploy these on genome - scale quantitative data obtained by, for example, mass spectrometry, genomic, and phenotypic screens to understand the principles of how spatio and temporal assembly of mammalian signaling networks transmit and process information at a systems level in order to alter cell behavior.

Although the discrepancy between the different values of G might indicate an unknown or overlooked error in the torque method, it is also possible that Newton's law of gravitation does not accurately describe the interaction of masses at the length scales of a lab, notes Peter Mohr, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

For the past 6 years, Subalusky and her husband, Christopher Dutton, also at the Cary Institute, have studied the scale and effects of this mass carnage.

«The mechanism that we have now identified regulates body fat mass independently of leptin, and it possible that leptin combined with activation of the internal body scales can become an effective treatment for obesity,» says Professor Claes Ohlsson at Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University.

The current record holder, discovered in the Coma Cluster by the UC Berkeley team in 2011, tips the scale at 21 billion solar masses and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Wells: Yeah, absolutely, and it is, sort of, almost cutting edge really, you know, to be able to capture masses of information at that kind of fine scale is something never been done on Earth.

At the continental scale, there is a new assessment of the net mass balance of Antarctica and Greenland.

The charge and spin of unparticles would be fixed but, counter-intuitively, their mass would somehow vary depending on the scale at which an observer viewed the particle.

Her current research focuses on understanding mass and electron transport behavior at the atomic - scale, as well as coupling materials physics with local lattice strain, bonding, and chemistry.

In agreement with previous studies, our sample exhibits a planet - metallicity correlation at all stellar masses; the fraction of stars that harbor giant planets scales as f \ propto 10 ^ -LCB- 1.2 [Fe / H]-RCB-.

Postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science Dr. Eby's PhD in physics from the University of Cincinnati dealt with dark matter, a collection of mass which is observed only through its gravitational interactions at the scale of galaxies; no one has ever detected individual dark matter particles.

The existence of black holes is now considered well established, both on a stellar scale, such as exists in the binary system Cygnus X-1, and on a scale of millions of solar masses at the centres of some galaxies.

These sources of stress can contribute to localized bleaching events (tens to hundreds of meters), but mass coral bleaching events occur at regional scales, often extending over tens to hundreds of kilometers.

The planet tips the scales at 4.8 Earth masses and is a little less that twice Earth's diameter and the least massive exoplanet to date that has been found orbiting a normal star.

This consortium realises both quality and critical mass for studying human language at a scale not easily found anywhere else.

«A Moon-less Earth with the same mass, rotation rate, and orbit as today would have the direction of its spin axis vary chaotically between 0 and 90 degrees on time scales as short as 10 million years,» says Darren Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Penn State University and NAI member.

It's not measuring your body fat percentage vs your muscle mass percentage vs how much water you have in your system that day vs bone density - so just be aware that the number on the scale really doesn't show you everything that matters, and it's far better to look at progress pictures, take measurements, or use a scanner that measures those different numbers for you periodically.

It is not until testosterone levels surpass the top of the normal scale by at least 30 percent that a significant increase in muscle mass can be seen.

Because the coconut sap needs to be hand harvested it does not lend itself well to mass production and is therefore mostly extracted on a small scale by local peoples and men skilled at climbing coconut palms.

-- my resting HR has risen (my starting was 75 - ish, it went down to 64, now it's up again at 70 or more)-- my pace for same HR has gone down: I'm regressing instead of progressing (last week)-- according to the sophisticated scale, I lost 2Kg of lean mass, and 0.1 Kg of fat!!

This is a pity, because on paper Red Sparrow is exactly what popular cinema is missing at the moment: a large - scale, star - driven, mass - appeal project aimed at a mature audience that isn't tied to a pre-existing franchise.

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