Sentences with phrase «of a postage stamp»

Sensors about the size of postage stamps fluoresced brightly when tested on tainted meat and apple juice, but not when the sensors touched unspoiled samples, the researchers report online April 6 in ACS Nano.

Their collective football knowledge could be written on the back of a postage stamp.

From a distance this piece is an abstract composition of grays and blacks against a white background, but closer inspection reveals multiple series of images (some depicting the same subjects as in the upstairs gallery) each printed in the form of a postage stamp from an undeclared country.

Buy some good quality note cards, plenty of postage stamps, and start writing personalized, hand - written notes to anyone who has made introductions for you or helped you, and of course, everyone involved in interviewing you.

But the new findings are shrugged off in the bitter partisan politics of this historic Mediterranean island, with a population just less than Tasmania's living in the space of a postage stamp.

The 20,000 years of agriculture add the thickness of a postage stamp.

That said, due to the total incompetence of AW and his recruitment team he has run out of time and we will be left with a disgruntled player on our books who will leave next year for less than the cost of a postage stamp

There is nothing worse than being half asleep and struggling to make out an image the size of a postage stamp on a video monitor.

Hawkes worked with the basic design concept of a gripping pad covered with rows of postage stamp — sized tiles of a gecko - inspired silicone adhesive nicknamed PDMS.

The retina is a thin piece of tissue about the size of a postage stamp at the back of the eye; it's so delicate that it's often likened to wet, one - ply toilet paper.

Consider his 2007 artwork Queen and Country, in which 160 British soldiers killed in Iraq were memorialized with facsimile sheets of postage stamps bearing their likenesses.

For # 50, you can usually expect a dual or even single - core processor, just enough RAM to switch the machine on, and the picture resolution of a postage stamp.

We do permit the donation of postage stamps to the Midwest Book Review, as a gesture of support and appreciation for what we seek to accomplish on behalf of the small press community.»

Kadir Nelson (B.F.A. Illustration» 96) has painted the images for a new set of postage stamps honoring famed National Basketball Association (NBA) player Wilt Chamberlain.

In the mid-60s, Brehmer began making enlarged reproductions of postage stamps, franked and perforated around the edges, which impose an abstract language onto the figurative images borne by the stamps, while at the same time reinforcing their identity as stamps.

His interest in the iconography and function of postage stamps led him to create a series of works on paper mapping Europe in the years between 1848 — 1871, when the continent was still a patchwork of minute independent states.

In order to increase his images» impact, he prints them in a wide range of sizes from monumental formats all the way down to the dimensions of a postage stamp.

The tiny scale of the photo seems particularly well suited to the intimacy of scrutinizing objects at close range, and astute observers will notice that the image of the postage stamp depicts the ships sailed by Columbus, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

This means that producers on average will pay about $ 0.75 per barrel (less than the price of a postage stamp).

To make sure that the mailroom never runs out of postage stamps, the clerk is expected to inform whoever is in charge of procuring stamps in the company.

Before this, he / she is supposed to have weighed the mail or package so as to attach the appropriate amount of postage stamp to the package.

(So far, the company's cell cultures are reported to be small, about the size of a postage stamp, and not fully functional.)

I have to admit that the amount I knew about Annie before seeing this latest update could safely be scribbled on the back of a postage stamp.

Artist Project Hans - Peter Feldmann, Stamps: Paintings with Nudes: The artist populates ArtReview with works by Rubens, Renoir, Toulouse - Lautrec, Bonnard and a host of others as he shows 150 of his postage stamps from around the world featuring designs based on historical paintings of nudes.

Here's a piece of advice to job seekers at every level — from the c - suite to entry - level: Buy a few boxes of quality thank notes and plenty of postage stamps, and start using them regularly.

It's a piece of microfilm, with the text of 1,245 pages shrunken down to the size of a postage stamp.

ahhhhhhhhhh I want chickens too!!!!! Unfortunately my back yard is the size of a postage stamp.

Our backyard is the size of a postage stamp.

Daniel Smalley, an electrical engineer at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and his colleagues used this method to produce graphics about the size of a postage stamp.

«Previous missions to Mars have used a relatively broad brush — analyzing average chemistry over roughly the size of a postage stamp — to «follow the water» and seek ancient habitable environments.

A small rectangle of pink glass, about the size of a postage stamp, sits on Professor Amy Shen's desk.

5,300 The number of full - length movies scientists could one day cram onto a storage device the size of a postage stamp.

Her technique involves taking a split - thickness biopsy about the size of a postage stamp (enough to treat an area up to 80 times as large) and soaking it for half an hour in an enzyme solution to extract «progenitor» cells, which promote healing and give skin color.

One of four array quadrants of the microshutter device is about the size of a postage stamp.

Photons are faster and cooler than electrons, but no one has been able to bend useful frequencies of light around the tight corners needed to navigate the million turns on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.

Second they only coated a tiny portion of the spinning surface, equivalent to the size of a postage stamp.

Francesco Panerai, a materials scientist with NASA contractor AMA Inc. and the X-ray experiments test lead for NASA ARC, said that the X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab were on samples about the size of a postage stamp.

Even DGPS chips have shrunk to the size of postage stamps.

By the end of the war, all that the projects had produced was a piece of uranium metal the size of a postage stamp, still unenriched with its light form.

Researchers have long said that microfluidics (microscopic plumbing) technology has the potential to shrink a laboratory to the size of a postage stamp or smaller for quicker, easier disease testing.

Roughly the size of a postage stamp, the plate is lined with microscopic grooves crossing a flexible strip of silicone that runs across the middle.

Two IMAX motion - controlled cameras combined with a long lens system known as snorkel optics enabled Slee and his colleagues to focus on scenes the size of postage stamps, producing three - dimensional panoramas that seem to suck the viewer into a world of chomping caterpillars, battling rhinoceros beetles, and raindrop - bathing ants, as well as a seething, silken - threaded cluster of newly hatching green mantises, 200 strong (above).

By arraying nearly 18,000 genes on a glass chip about twice the size of a postage stamp and recording the expression patterns of those genes, researchers have obtained detailed molecular portraits of...

Using billions of small holes pressed into a piece of plastic the size of a postage stamp, the experiment was able to create a very tiny version of the science used in the goblet.