Sentences with phrase «of giant structures»

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The specimens in Mote's aboveground tanks come from massive coral, a slower - growing type that resembles giant boulders underwater and is responsible for building the main structure of reefs.

The cost structure of print is becoming increasingly non-viable even for globe - spanning giants like the Times, and managing the decline of that business is something the paper is spending a lot of time on.

For instance, in one ad Benson talks about purchasing a goal post from the old Giants stadium and made an innuendo about «erecting» the 40 - foot structure in front of his dealership.

As a part of auto - to - steel giant Hyundai Motor Group's move to streamline its complex ownership structure, key affiliate Hyundai Mobis is...

Following weeks of rumors, a massive shakeup of Microsoft's organizational structure, confirmed today, aims to deliver a better product experience to customers amid increasingly fierce competition from Google, Apple and other tech giants.

But the ambitions of these giants have been fueled by debt and masked by opaque ownership structures, creating uncertainty over their corporate governance, strategic motivations and financial health.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick temporarily surrendered the reins of his $ 70 billion empire Tuesday, launching a new era for the embattled ride - hailing giant as it vows to reform everything from its alcohol and drug policy to its corporate power structure.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

Harwood's article, «The Probable Consequences to Our Credit Structure of Continued Gold Export,» ran in March 1928, and noted that gold export would necessitate either a large reduction in bank reserves or — if the accepted 75 percent reserve requirement were maintained — a giant reduction in bank loans, because $ 1 billion of reserves supported «some $ 15.2 billion of deposits in member banks.»

A giant blueprint assigned each of the recovered stones to its original place in the structure.

We've been given an idea of what a giant structure, dedicated to answered prayers, will look like.

``... The only way to understand what is currently happening to us as twenty - first - century Christians in North America is first to understand that about every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale... About every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at the time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.»

Smart investment bankers are beavering away on potential structures to mesh Treasury and Accolade together and come away with a lower - end high - volume commercial wine giant, and a separate high - end core Treasury business with the jewels of Penfolds and Wolf Blass still intact.

The Spanish giants are already looking to offload James Rodriguez, who is believed to be the subject of interest from big - spending duo Chelsea and Manchester United, and his wages would likely be beyond our current wage structure.

The deal is similar in structure to the one that allowed the Catalan giants to capture the signature of Ousmane Dembele from Borussia Dortmund in the summer.

This giant facility has a massive section of couches for parents to relax while kids climb the giant three - level play structure, play arcade games or scale the large rock wall.

Facebook shareholders Julia Goodridge, North Star Asset Management, and Ross Gerber, Gerber Kawasaki, discuss proxy advisor ISS urging better corporate governance at the social media giant in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and how the company's dual - share structure complicates the process.

The Wyndham Gardens Chinatown, the site proclaims, «starts with a structure similar to a giant shard of blue glass that cuts through the Manhattan skyline to create an unforgettable presence in the new Chinatown.»

By attempting to understand the subterranean structures of the planet and how they modify its surface features, Kircher could be said to have exhibited a «planetary» consciousness three centuries before the Gaia hypothesis proposed that we look at Earth as a giant self - regulating system.

Now add a giant arc - shaped structure to its list of oddities.

After Watson and Crick's 1953 discovery of DNA's chemical structure, Kornberg set out to synthesize a giant DNA molecule.

«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

And in an effort to figure out how the nickel - sized pelvic fin structure of the aptly named clingfish creates suction against rocks, a group of scientists created a giant replica using their trusty 3D printer.

The giant bill of the chestnut - mandibled toucan makes up a third of the bird's body length, but thanks to a honeycomb structure, it's not as heavy as it looks.

The journey of a new star from the turbulent chaos of the giant molecular clouds to the serene constancy of maturity seems to contain many of the structures found elsewhere in the universe.

Giant fossilized sperm found in Australia appear as ropelike structures in the seminal vesicles of a 17 - million - year - old mussel shrimp.

In what many say is the scientific equivalent of scaling Mount Everest, researchers have figured out almost the entire structure of one part of the ribosome, the cell's giant protein factory.

Its most striking visual structures (aside from the giant Stickney crater) are sets of crater chains that line up across the surface.

STIS detected the giant structures as far away as 37 billion miles (60 million kilometers) away from V Hydrae, more than eight times farther away than the Kuiper Belt of icy debris at the edge of our solar system is from the sun.

This finding promises to tell astronomers more about the evolution and structure of majestic giant spirals, one of the most common types of galaxies in the universe.

From millimeter - scale dots in surface waters to relative giants in the depths, larvaceans have jellyfish - translucent bodies but a cordlike structure (called a notochord) reminiscent of very ancient ancestors of vertebrates.

This result confirms that gas giant planets form rapidly within disks and validates the use of disk structures as fingerprints of embedded planets.

The denser regions in the universe began to collapse under their own gravitational force, forming the clumps of matter that became giant cosmic structures.

When considering signs of civilisation that could be visible around distant worlds, many people picture those that require extreme technological prowess, such as giant lasers or Dyson spheres — huge structures that harvest power from a star.

Recently detected ripples in the gas giant's rings carry signatures of the planet's interior structure, offering new insights into what lies far beneath Saturn's cloud tops.

Subtle vibrations in those rings are helping scientists explore the structure of the gas giant's interior.

These halo stars are grouped together in giant structures that orbit the center of our galaxy, above and below the flat disk of the Milky Way.

Both complexes are giant protein structures consisting of mTOR and other accompanying proteins.

The ESRF functions like a giant microscope, which «films» the position and motion of atoms in condensed and living matter, and reveals the structure of matter in all its beauty and complexity.

As this SWRI press release details, Juno has eight scientific instruments designed to study the planet's magnetic field, atmosphere and interior structure, and they show that Jupiter is far more than just a giant ball of gases.

Cassini Probe Spots Weird Waves in Saturn's Rings: NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a spectacular photo of a perplexing wave structure in one of Saturn's rings as the probe headed into its final days at the gas giant.

The internal structures of giant planets are much less well known than those of main - sequence stars because of uncertainties in the equation of state of degenerate gas, the composition (typically non-solar), the interaction with the magnetic field and, in the upper layers, the relative magnitudes of internal heat and energy deposited from the sun.

The quartet resides in one of the most massive structures ever discovered in the distant universe, and is surrounded by a giant nebula of cool dense gas.

On the other hand, given the current understanding of how massive structures in the universe form, the presence of the giant nebula in the proto - cluster is totally unexpected.

The main part of the school will be a series of lectures on the structure and evolution of stars with various masses including gas giant planets and on the effects of mass loss and stellar rotation upon them.

Here's another finding, courtesy of Juno: Unlike Saturn's enigmatic hexagonal (six - sided polygon) cloud structure over the ringed gas giant's north pole, Jupiter's northern cyclones form an octagonal (eight - sided) grouping.

By combining these with observations from Planck, we can now obtain a link to the large - scale structures of giant molecular clouds,» remarks Timea Csengeri from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), Bonn, Germany, who led the work of combining the APEX and Planck data.

When the core fuel is exhausted, the internal structure of the star changes rapidly; it quickly leaves the main sequence and moves toward the region of giants and supergiants.

And, before its fatal plunge through the gas giant's atmosphere, the spacecraft will repeatedly dive through the space between Saturn and its rings, providing scientists best - ever views of the gigantic structures.