Sentences with phrase «of a given size»

The new concept can now provide a powerful tool for developing new, better - performing materials that could lead to dramatic improvements in the amount of power that could be stored in a battery of a given size or weight, as well as improved safety, the researchers say.

Self - equilibrating shifts in incomes and prices are assumed to enable a debt overhead of any given size to be paid.

So Guilhem Lavaux of the University of Waterloo in Ontario and colleagues proposed a solution: take the shapes of all voids of a given size and stack them to derive an average amount of stretching.

Here's how we know: astronomers can estimate how many asteroids of a given size are out there, even if we haven't seen them all, by looking at the rate of re-detection, or how often we see the same asteroid a second time.

When we clean up after an oil spill of a given size, such as along our shorelines, we start by applying mechanical methods using spades and brooms, combined with chemicals.

While selenium is not as abundant as silicon or other promising materials for electronics, the thinness of these sheets is a big advantage, Churchill points out: «It's thousands or tens of thousands of times thinner» than conventional diode materials, «so you'd use thousands of times less material» to make devices of a given size.

«This paper provides a model for the pattern of the ash cloud if the wind is blowing past an eruption of a given size,» said Peter Baines, a scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia who did the study.

The size of the carnage reported at any given time determines the probability that a group of a given size will strike next.

There are many quantitative estimates given, often based on the Bekenstein Bound, limiting the information which can be encoded in a quantum system of given size.

Theory says that a lunar geologic unit should accumulate a certain number of craters of a given size in a million years, for example.

It looks more like what the next Maxima will be based off of given the size and engine.

Estimating how large a nest egg you need to support you throughout a long retirement — or, looking at the issue a bit differently and assessing how much you can safely withdraw from a nest egg of a given size — is crucial to planning for a secure retirement.

The resolution is that the plank function is intensity per unit of solid angle (usually expressed as the radiation flowing through a plane of given size), but that the solid angle of sunlight is roughly 6e - 5 radians squared (pi times a quarter of a degree squared), whereas the solid angle for terrestrial upward going radiation is the entire half sphere.

A symmetric cipher is an algorithm which takes a key of a given size, and uses that key to scramble input data.