Sentences with phrase «make scale models»

I do make scale models of the gallery and print out images of the paintings to better visualize the exhibition.

Would you know how to turn a bucket into a seismograph, how to make a scale model of a DNA double helix from cans and bottles, or how to simulate a human eye with the help of a shampoo bottle?

Of course, everyone wants to hear where he received his injury, so he's made a scale model of the battlefield, stands in the proper place, and states with gusto to the curious party, «Here.»

With a firm approach to working with whatever he can get his hands and mind on, Nick enjoys making scale models, maquettes and installations and buying dollar - store items to integrate into his surroundings — that is, both his life and his work.

The exhibition title Modeler evokes someone — or something — making a scale model construction.

«They're really fascinating,» says Tom Fetters, author of Lustron: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment (McFarland & Co., 2001), who first got hooked on the houses when he helped his daughter make a scale model of a Lustron with a removable roof for a high school history project in 1986.

Not exact matches

The 26 - year - old model wrote that she threw out her scales, measuring tape, and too - small clothes last summer in an attempt to «make peace» with her body image.

Either he doubles down, sticks to the low - production model and hopes the unpredictable Eurasians kiss and make up, or he scales up production and competes on price, walking away from a marketing strategy that made Potash Corp. one of Canada's most successful, and profitable, companies.

And, what we're trying to gently push back in the book is the economics of the large - scale bundled subscription model that Netflix is pursuing, [where what the] economic theory says is you can profitably make things in a bundle that wouldn't be profitable if you sold them separately.

Start with a showcase and by working on a small model, show what you can do; something that is manageable but makes a significant impact, if not on a large scale but even a village or a house.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

In the UK, the Bank of England also makes extensive use of a large - scale macro-model, and a significant portion of the policy formulation process is taken up with the discussion of the necessary judgmental adjustments to the equations of the model to reflect current developments.

The Bank of England, RBNZ, Riksbank and Norges Bank, inter alia, make significant use of large scale macro-models, whereas the RBA puts greater reliance on single - equation models.

Our approach was and continues to be to take a long - term approach, modeled after the way we experimented and invested in a lot of things during the early years at Zappos (and made a lot of mistakes along the way), and then eventually scaled from almost no sales in 1999 to over $ 1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008 (9 years)-- and continuing to grow and scale afterwards.

As strategic public players in the US continue to see limited growth making large scale M&A difficult, private equity players have filled some of the gap, particularly for enterprise companies with SAAS - like models.

Without it, the company will have trouble securing enough battery supply to make hundreds of thousands of EVs (which they plan to do for the upcoming, more affordable Model 3, to be unveiled in March 2016), and it will have trouble reducing its prices enough to attract Mr. and Mrs. Everybody (the Gigafactory is expected to slash costs by at least 30 % through economies of scale and high - tech manufacturing).

Multinational carmakers arrived with the sort of insurmountable advantages made possible by their global scale: superior models, well - known brands, and financial muscle.

Investors want to see a revenue model that, at scale, demonstrates you've covered your fixed costs with enough margin that it makes it worth their while to invest in your company.

There are many different business models and combinations that you can pick for your marketplace, but choosing the right model and making sure it scales in the long run is the tricky part.

The emperor became the patron par excellence (as we can see in the earlier quotation from Nicolaus of Damascus) and the model for (and patron of) the local benefactors outside Rome, who were in turn patrons of others lower down the socio - economic scale (he was, however, the only euergetes of Rome itself — no one else was allowed to make benefactions in that city).

Firmenich, Danone and Mars announced plans to make a significant investment through Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming (Livelihoods 3F) in a large - scale, innovative vanilla farming model in Madagascar.

Data Scale is the only manufacturer to provide a comprehensive array of patented, operational and safety features on every model we make as «standard» equipment.

This Wash Station can be designed to fit buckets for any make and model of combination or weigh scale.

In an hour the tests were substantially over; and, scaling the results from model size to boat size, allowing 28 % power loss for propeller inefficiency, 20 % more for drag from things like rudders and rough paint and 2 % more to make up for the slight downward slant of the propeller shaft, everyone agreed that Mr. Metcalf would indeed have to buy two diesels of 275 hp if he wanted to cruise at 12 knots.

TINLEY PARK — A scale model of a proposed new recreation center, made by students at Prairie View Junior High School in Tinley Park, is helping voters decide whether to support a bond referendum proposal for the real thing.

This is dramatic and probably does not happen often, but 80 grams (almost 3 ounces) is not rare and I have seen two scales, made by the same company, same model, sitting one beside the other weigh the same baby but with an 85 grams difference.

The enormous range of scales (stars, the building blocks of galaxies, are each about one trillion times smaller in mass than the galaxy they make up), as well as the complex physics involved, presents a formidable challenge for any computer model.

Myhrvold, Currie and Dhileep Sivam, also of Intellectual Ventures, unveiled a quarter - scale physical model of an Apatosaurus tail made from aluminum vertebrae and steel tendons.

Scientists designed synthetic scales based on this model and applied them to LEDs to make them emit one and a half times their normal light.

The small - scale processes giving rise to thunderstorms make their direct simulation in climate models impossible given current computing power.

«If our technology works with alcoholic drinks (especially beer which is the best model) then it shows it has the potential to be scaled up to make butanol as a petrol replacement on an industrial scale.»

The most detailed images yet made of the chemical bonds in a molecule show what large - scale models had long assumed: the more electrons that two atoms share, the shorter the bond between them.

After a warm - up, participants were asked to judge the height and width of the goal by adjusting a handheld, scaled - down model of the goal made out of PVC pipes.

Using large - scale numerical modeling as well as GPS velocities from the largest GPS data - processing center in the world — the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno — Kreemer and Gordon have showed that cooling of the lithosphere, the outermost layer of Earth, makes some sections of the Pacific plate contract horizontally at faster rates than other sections.

The DC - X is a one - third scale model of a reusable rocket that could one day make space travel as routine as air travel is today.

The Cray cost # 8 million, making its use for road forecasting alone an expensive proposition, even though a large - scale project using all the processors could model up to 2 million vehicles.

The small scale of severe thunderstorms makes it difficult to deal with them with global models.

Using large - scale numerical modeling as well as GPS velocities from the largest GPS data - processing center in the world - the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno - Kreemer and Gordon have showed that cooling of the lithosphere, the outermost layer of Earth, makes some sections of the Pacific plate contract horizontally at faster rates than other sections.

We hope not only to discover how brains support decision - making in any animal, humans included, but also to offer a new large - scale, collaborative model for brain science.

Usually in large scale models so - called band approximations are made to simplify and speed up the radiation calculations.

In this 50 - minute videoconference program, students are given a brief introduction to the UT McDonald Observatory and then they make a volume and distance scale model of two objects in the Solar System.

Researchers will analyze the sample for chemical purity and plutonium - 238 content, then verify production efficiency models and determine whether adjustments need to be made before scaling up the process.

BoF: What is your advice to fashion companies that have begun the journey of transitioning towards a more sustainable and circular model, but feel overwhelmed by the scale of change they need to make or worry that it requires too much investment to see any see real progress?

The Fighter Pilot seemed impressed by the models of helicopters on display — several of which were scaled down versions made by 3D printers.

Ballistics, laser technology, made - to - scale models and the latest in forensic animation showed that bullet had followed a tragic course after a misfire at the outdoor range.

Along with a clever production design that makes locations look like scale models and other board game bits thrown in, this was probably a hard sell to figure out how to market for any studio.

The research project encourages school and industry collaboration, and several school - industry activities were established with the ability to be scaled to make a difference to the way that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) models are implemented in schools.

For the last two decades, Western Governors University (WGU) has led the nation in creating and scaling an innovative, high - quality educational model that today helps roughly 90,000 enrolled students make progress in their lives and careers.

Here's the bottom line: To make these changes at scale, education policy makers need a new model of system leadership.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.