Sentences with phrase «in smaller instruments»

Thor's Helmet can be seen in 6 - inch or smaller telescopes, but it only appears as a fuzzy patch in smaller instruments.

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«Preferential tax treatment of small companies is too blunt an instrument to foster entrepreneurial activity efficiently,» the IMF says in its latest Fiscal Monitor.

In laparoscopy, surgeons thread medical instruments and cameras by hand through small holes in the patient's bodIn laparoscopy, surgeons thread medical instruments and cameras by hand through small holes in the patient's bodin the patient's body.

They used the sticky stuff, originally intended to ease their boredom, to stop small instruments from floating amuck in zero gravity.

By putting a little money aside for you every day, ChangEd uses the «small steps make a difference» method that produces such effective results in other realms, like learning a new instrument or reaching a fitness goal.

Also, bills have typically traded below other money market rates during tightening cycles, as they do now; periods where bills trade at or above other rates have been the exception and not the rule.36 Thus, the smaller increase in bill yields than in rates on other term instruments is not surprising, and I do not read it as undermining the general conclusion that the policy rate increase was effective in firming money market conditions.37

If you can correctly predict how a financial instrument is going to move you can earn a lot of money on small movements by investing in binary options.

Field education should be offered in lively churches (which have a mental health program) where small groups of students are supervised by experienced clergymen (with faculty status) who are themselves instruments of growth and healing.

More than 2,500 years ago, in the bright of day, somewhere in a large Middle Eastern city, the king of a small nation strips down to his underclothes during a religious ceremony and dances to the rhythms of tambourines, castanets and cymbals punctuated by the melody of lyres, harps and other guitarlike instruments.

There is not the slightest deviation in tempo or pitch, not the smallest variation in harmonic or overtone which is not readily measurable by the appropriate instruments.

The purpose was to increase depth - relating and honest confrontation among the trainees and to provide a model of how to use small groups as instruments of change in churches.

In a catalog I recently edited of devices and instruments for congregational research, only a small minority of the hundred or so entries is designed to explore a congregation's narrative identity.20 Most doctor of ministry programs continue the tradition: perusal of the theses and essays these programs produce strongly suggests that projects that employ contextual, mechanist, or organicist methods are more likely to be accepted than those that delve into congregational culture and story.

Remove and take blunt handle of spoon or other small rounded instrument and make small depressions in the surface every inch or so.

These hand painted wooden instruments provide an amazing sensory experience and are small enough to fit in a zip - lock bag... instant busy bag!

To perform our passive containment test, demonstrated in the video below, Consumer Reports uses two instruments — a smaller one to simulate a child's torso and a larger one to simulate a child's head.

«Some gifts» such as sanitizing wipes and small medical instruments were «identified» but were «in line with Green Book requirements,» the audit report said.

These incentives and policy instruments could be financial, but they could also be lighter - touch regulatory and market mechanisms that help SMEs (unlike mechanisms such as auctions that are barriers to small players who do not have corporate back - up and who need to know the value of their product in advance if they are to raise funds).

However, the resolution of the LEND instrument is greater than the size of most PFS, so smaller PFS slopes, perhaps approaching yards in size, may have significantly higher abundances, and indications are that the greatest hydrogen concentrations are within the permanently shaded regions, according to McClanahan.

While the original SIFT machines are bulky tabletop instruments, Smith says that in the last few months he and Spanel have developed a smaller, portable version and tested it with hospital patients.

That is not a surprise, given the map of hydrogen (a stand - in for water) generated by an instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiting spacecraft and the presence of small amounts of water in younger Martian meteorites, notes Harry McSween at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

In addition, supplier companies that sell instruments or reagents will often contribute and ask only for a small table or booth to show off some new wares.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

«Putting up measuring instruments in cold environments also means that you mostly have to work with only small gloves, sometimes momentarily without any gloves,» Stautzebach writes.

I grabbed three small plastic tubes from the freezer, picked up a pipette — a hand - held instrument, used in labs to measure out liquids — from my DIY kit, and started adding the CRISPR ingredients to tubes of E. coli.

It was around this time — in 1671, specifically — that Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch fabric merchant in Delft, developed a new but far less ornate microscope with smaller, simpler and, ironically, better optics that allowed much higher magnification without the distortion of the more complicated, expensive instruments.

According to a report published in February, the lander's panoply of instruments should include a small seismometer — a simple device that would give scientists an ear on Europa's inner workings.

Those limited resources mean that JunoCam's scientists rely on a small army of volunteer «citizen scientists» using backyard telescopes to flag transient features in the Jovian atmosphere as «points of interest» for the instrument to observe.

Very likely it could have been as small as several hundred yards,» said Alfred McEwen, the principal investigator for the HiRISE instrument at Arizona State University, in Tucson.

His work on the design of miniature optical elements, «small lightweight instruments to be used for remote microscopy inside human beings,» became the basis for the microscope attachment that makes CMaRS useful in the field.

Since medieval times, players of double - reed instruments in the oboe, bassoon, shawm, dolcian, and chanter family have used a small, thin, usually arrow - shaped or semicircular piece of metal, now usually plastic or wood, to help scrape and shape the cane used to construct the reed.

Tests in the Pacific Ocean showed that the instrument, a radar altimeter called AltiKa, can spot seamounts as small as 1 kilometer tall.

A small group of meteorologists headquartered in Norman, Oklahoma, had for decades employed ingenious means: instrumented probes, weather balloons, and small radar systems.

So Serabyn's group installed a relatively new kind of instrument called a vortex coronagraph on a small - scale segment, called a sub-aperture, of the Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

Amanda Hahn and colleagues at St Andrew's University in Fife, UK, used a heat - sensitive camera to map small changes of temperature in the faces of young heterosexual women while an experimenter touched them with an instrument they were told was measuring skin colour (it wasn't).

He identified four major groups of stringed instrument makers, or luthiers, who each crafted their own signature shapes that were passed down with small changes generation by generation — what Chitwood notes was «descent with modification,» in deference to Darwin's theory of evolution.

The ATRAP group, Gabrielse says, made the choice to increase the number of atoms in the trap rather than increasing the sensitivity of the instruments to detect small numbers of anti-atoms, as ALPHA has done.

By achieving this goal, the cold - atom clock could also match the performance of commercial cesium - beam atomic clocks, common laboratory instruments, but in a smaller package.

Researchers continue to improve instrument hardware and data processing and are looking ahead to mapping more glaciers in the future, which will likely involve small, unmanned aerial vehicles.

# 9: The CHEOPS scientific instrument is complete 06 December 2017 The scientific instrument at the heart of the CHEOPS mission has been fully assembled, marking an important milestone in the development of this small, fast - track exoplanet - characterising mission.

While the long - term future of studying exoplanet atmospheres surely rests in the next generation of telescopes and instruments that will enable us to directly image smaller and cooler exoplanets, transiting exoplanets like the ACCESS targets are the cosmic lighthouses that are providing the first insights into the natures of other worlds.

The device is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, works with many scientific instruments including time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometers and scanning electron microscopes.

In addition to learning about the different instruments, science, and research that comes out of these cutting - edge facilities, the ambassadors will also visit several smaller observatories that are open to the public.

In 1999, the kidney transplant program began using a new, less invasive technique for living kidney donation, using endoscopic instruments through very small incisions.

This multi-purpose high - contrast visible and near - infrared (R - to K - band) instrument is not only intended to serve as a VLT - class «planet - imager» instrument in the Northern hemisphere, but also to operate as a technology demonstration testbed ahead of the ELTs - era, with a particular emphasis on small inner - working angle (IWA) coronagraphic capabilities.

In this context, a test H - band vector vortex liquid crystal polymer waveplate was provided to SCExAO, to allow a one - to - one comparison of different small - IWA techniques on the same telescope instrument, before considering further steps.

MSSS, a small, privately - owned company of ~ 60 employees located in San Diego, CA provides products and services in three main areas: Cameras for spacecraft; Spacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX).

The Gemcode system consists of a small desk - top instrument in a microfluidistic format and a set of 750000 barcodes for sequencing library preparation.

My colleagues and I were using the Echellette Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) instrument, which looks at faint objects in the visible wavelengths, to study star clusters and small galaxies.

This small spacecraft is packed with instruments designed to study Pluto and its system of moons, and will fly by the world in July 2015, just under a year from now.

Small, portable sequencing instruments such as the MinION have the potential to improve the quality of information gathered on antimicrobial resistance in the environment.