Not exact matches
Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's
largest spewer
of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst
of an unprecedented promotion
of electric cars: Last year, sales
of electric and plug - in
hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.
Customers have multiple instances
of cloud deployments in public cloud, Software as a Service, which in many cases is
larger than public cloud, and
hybrid.»
He added: «For customers who want access to existing
large - scale public cloud providers, we have already added greater support for Amazon Web Services as part
of our
hybrid delivery with HP Helion Eucalyptus, and we have worked with Microsoft to support Office 365 and Azure.
DuPont is the fourth -
largest chemical corporation in the world, and it wants to see the product — a
hybrid type
of corn — in farmers» fields as early as 2021.
If you are able to take on a short loan term or make
large loan payments early in the life
of the loan, then a variable or
hybrid interest rate loan may work for you.
«All
of the big carriers in the market have
hybrid indexes and that speaks to the
large allocation to these indexes,» said Sheryl J. Moore, president and CEO
of Moore Market Intelligence and Wink Inc., publisher
of Wink's Sales & Market Report.
This impressive milestone marks a long journey from a one - man operation providing small businesses with consistency in their marketing efforts, to a fully staffed
hybrid agency model serving clients
large and small in a wide variety
of fields, including healthcare, law, software, retail and other B2B business, as well as non-profits.
He has also driven many financing deals, including financing for the acquisition
of ARM Holdings Plc. (world's
largest chip architecture developer), issuing mandatory exchangeable bonds backed by Alibaba Group Holding Limited (
largest e-commerce company in the world),
hybrid bonds, and more.
Issuance by financial institutions eased in the September quarter, reflecting
larger - than - initially planned issuance during the first half
of 2003 (because
of oversubscriptions) and increased issuance
of hybrid and asset - backed securities.
«Our new
hybrids are a
larger type
of inshell seed that is preferred in almost all the export markets,» he says.
«SSA has an amazing
hybrid of products and services that attract guest visitors to their customers» venues, including restaurants, retail outlets, catering and even hosting a
large number
of weddings on location.
Through the HRDC, IRRI has been sharing a
large number
of hybrid rice varieties and parental lines with its partners.
The data shows that the beverage industry has the
largest fleet
of fuel - efficient heavy - duty
hybrid commercial vehicles in North America, and has increased fuel economy (miles per gallon) industry - wide by 3 percent per year since at least 2010.
I discovered I could increase the per plant yield and also the pod size by employing a few simple practices such as choosing individual seedlings
of the
largest and most favorable growth characteristics and then when I began crossing varieties choosing seedlings that show distinguishing
hybrid vigor!
The White IPA style is a
hybrid of the Belgian witbier and India Pale Ale styles, resulting in an unfiltered and well - carbonated beer brewed with a
large proportion
of wheat, and featuring spices and a strong hop presence.
Popularized by Walter Knott at his Buena Park farmstand — years before Knott's Berry Farm morphed into Southern California's second - fiddle amusement park — this blackberry - raspberry
hybrid boasts
large fruit and a tart - yet - sweet taste that brings together the best qualities
of both its parents.
The researchers focused on a
hybrid membrane that is part polymer and part metal - organic framework, which is a porous three - dimensional crystal with a
large internal surface area that can absorb enormous quantities
of molecules.
Xcel hopes to convert up to 500
hybrid cars owned by the county, the city
of Boulder, and the University
of Colorado to plug - in
hybrids by adding
larger batteries that can be charged from the grid.
Hybrid locomotive technologies offer many advantages, but they will come with new obstacles, says Mike Iden, general director
of car and locomotive engineering at Omaha, Neb. — based Union Pacific Railroad, the nation's
largest railroad company, with a 5,150 - kilometer network.
The Eastern United States, long deprived
of its native wolves, has a new
large predator: a
hybrid of wolves, coyotes, and domestic dogs, The Economist reports.
Hybrid Tug Tugboats may look like something out
of another era, but they play an essential role in ocean shipping as they push, pull, and prod
large vessels into (and back out
of) the tight quarters
of a port.
In 2011, Science's editors will be watching a smaller detector at the
Large Hadron Collider called LHCb, which will study B mesons in great detail; new techniques that should lead to the discovery
of many more genes contributing to adaptation; an ignited fusion burn at the National Ignition Facility; broadly neutralizing antibodies, which are capable
of disabling a wide range
of viral variants; the first plug - in
hybrid electric cars whose batteries are charged from a wall socket go on the market; and the results
of the first phase III trial
of a malaria vaccine.
Ultrathin sheets
of a new 2 - D
hybrid perovskite are square - shaped and relatively
large in area, properties that should facilitate their integration into future electronic devices.
The 60 - foot - long gas gun used compressed nitrogen gas to shoot metal projectiles into a resonant beam coupled with a resonant cone to expand the final diameter to interface with the rocket part, essentially a
hybrid version
of a
large - scale Hopkinson bar.
«Dealer contacts noted increased sales
of larger vehicles such as trucks and SUVs, and slower sales for small and
hybrid cars,» the bank said.
Toyota, currently the world's
largest producer
of hybrid vehicles by far thanks to the success
of its Prius, announced that it expects to have a commercially viable plug - in
hybrid available to consumers as early as 2010 and is now testing prototype versions
of plug - in
hybrids at two California universities.
The investigators, who closely collaborated with the R&D team
of Barry Callebaut, the world's
largest chocolate producer, have combined two critical characteristics
of yeast in single
hybrid variants: the ability to dominate cocoa fermentations, and to produce a specific flavor.
A few forward - thinking
large companies have installed electric outlets accessible to employee parking, but most plug - in
hybrid and electric car drivers will be looking for help well beyond the scope
of their commutes.
«When taking into account that production
of the far smaller batteries
of plug - in
hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production
of the
larger batteries
of electric vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem
of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.
In consumer electronics, it is a relatively minor inconvenience to replace an old battery with a new one every couple
of years, but this would be unacceptable in a
hybrid car, especially given the
large size
of the battery pack and the difficulty involved in replacing it.
«With development, the cost
of these
hybrid systems will decrease and become increasingly competitive, hopefully playing a
larger role in power generation in the future,» the researchers wrote in their conclusion.
The success
of the reported DNA programmable assembly required expertise with
hybrid (soft - hard) materials and exquisite nanopatterning and lithographic capabilities to achieve the requisite spatial resolution, definition and fidelity across
large substrate areas.
The company's Prius V, due out this summer and the first model to feature Entune, is a
larger version
of its gas — electric
hybrid (positioned more as a mini station wagon) that gets about 64 kilometers per gallon.
The researchers analyzed three main types
of flooding controls —
large storm - surge barriers
of various types holding back water from New York Bay, building improvements only and a «
hybrid approach» combining infrastructure improvements with small levees and beach fortifications.
Frangioni says another advantage
of a single molecule as opposed to a
larger hybrid molecule is that, in the future, it will be less difficult to manufacture.
Research by an affiliate
of the insurance group, the Highway Loss Data Institute, estimates that overall chances
of being injured in a crash are 25 percent lower in
hybrids because their
large batteries make them heavier than similar gasoline - powered cars.
Across the
large lakes
of this region, the
hybrid population then diversified in a process known as «adaptive radiation» (evolution
of multiple new species adapted to different ecological niches).
An alginate - based
hybrid system for growth factor delivery in the functional repair
of large bone defects.
China is now the
largest adopter
of hybrid rice.
Ford, the second
largest U.S. automaker, showed off its Fusion Energi plug - in
hybrid and promised to start production
of a new Focus EV that it expects to be «the first five - passenger, all - electric car to achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel efficiency rating.»
More recharging outlets, as well as other infrastructure improvements, must also be in place for plug - in
hybrids to reach
large numbers
of American households, the report said.
By analyzing genome sequence data from human populations, including 1269 individuals from sub-Saharan Africa, we identify a diverse array
of large copy number variants affecting the host invasion receptor genes GYPA and GYPB We find that a nearby association with severe malaria is explained by a complex structural rearrangement involving the loss
of GYPB and gain
of two GYPB - A
hybrid genes, which encode a serologically distinct blood group antigen known as Dantu.
Well over half
of China's total rice - growing area
of some 15 million hectares is planted with rice
hybrids, making the country by far the world's
largest producer
of the crop.
We addressed this 2-fold problem by developing the following methods: (1) production
of the
largest to - date biologically derived single - stranded scaffold using a λ / M13
hybrid virus to produce a 51 466 - nucleotide DNA in a circular, single - stranded form and (2) inexpensive DNA synthesis via an inkjet - printing process on a chip embossed with functionalized micropillars made from cyclic olefin copolymer.
For the months
of June and July, by contrast, those glorious little strawberry - blackberry - dewberry - loganberry
hybrids (developed by a small farmer in California, where they're no longer grown in
large quantities) are ripe and fresh at farmers» markets and stands.
«We take a
hybrid approach: some elements are better if engineered in - house and deeply embedded in the heart
of your own systems, but specialist information (and external, shared knowledge) will always be more powerful in certain areas
of fraud detection, due to a much
larger data set and collaborative algorithms.»
Elove.com, one
of the
larger New York - area
hybrid offerings, is an Internet service that gives each participant a 90 - minute in - person interview, and then follows up with criminal background and marital status checks.
The first successful
hybrid approach, combining the efficiency / accessibility
of the Internet with personal touch matchmaking, Cupid's Coach has become the
largest personal matchmaking company in California, with affiliates and partners nationally and internationally.
Though deceptive advertising is nothing new in movies, the DVD cover art
of Coming & Going takes the practice far, keeping the wheelchair out
of the picture (save for the title logo's odd twist on the familiar handicap symbol), portraying the leads as young and hip in their jeans and tall boots respectively, and, most egregiously, placing a chihuahua poodle
hybrid that features in a single 1 - minute scene front, center, and
large.
Some
of the best uses
of gamified instruction involve helping students navigate a
large amount
of content in a self - paced,
hybrid - learning environment.