Sentences with phrase «size scale which»

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Skeptics laughed, but H&M, which has already reduced its environmental footprint, has the size, scale, and cachet to change the clothing industry's planet - punishing style.

It did this methodically with a playbook, a method which helped it scale to cities of different sizes and countries around the world.

What's different is the scale, which reflects the massive size of China's credit boom.»

Associated British Foods, which owns the malt drink brand Ovaltine, could look at the business to scale up in a key emerging market, the sources said, although the size of the GSK business could be a deterrent.

We attract and better serve our customers due to our expertise and capabilities and the size, scale and geographic location of our assets, which enable us to operate in multiple locations.

Some lenders offer commissions which are scaled to the size of the lending agreements, while individual businesses are more inclined to hire brokers if their fees do not make the overall amount too prohibitive.

«We have a global operation which means we have scale in size but we have local management teams that are very sensitive and very understanding of the local cultures and tastes.

Grow More Food Festival, which offers many entertainment options for Guyanese residents, encourages all sizes of businesses within the agriculture industry to grow more food, and engages families to plant kitchen gardens and other small - scale gardens to help offset the effects of higher food prices.

De Saint - Affrique is sure that Barry Callebaut is able to satisfy both poles of the market — due to its production know - how and its size, which result in economies of scale, Barry Callebaut is able to keep up competition in the market for lower - priced products, while at the same time its master chocolatiers guarantee innovation and make sure that the company can meet the highest customer requirements.

The scale is 1:12, which means that the real house will divide into 12 and the size of this dollhouse is similar.

Cuomo has long sought to consolidate and scale back the size of local governments in New York, which he has blamed for the state's high property taxes — an assertion budget watchdogs say is more tied to the cost of programs like Medicaid or employee pensions.

Under the Governor's plan, New York will redesign tunnel plazas with cutting - edge veils equipped with LED capability, and gantry structures supporting the new electronic toll equipment will feature artistic «wave» designs which will vary in size and scale.

The first and most famous scaling law is something called Kleiber's law, which describes how metabolic rate, the amount of energy you need per day to stay alive, is related to an organism's size.

For example, Pike says, NASA could have got by with a much smaller vehicle than the CEV, which is three times the size of the Apollo capsule, requiring a scaling up of the launch vehicle and everything else in the program.

«At that scale, it would take a very long time to scan devices made with MOFs, which are typically about a millimeter squared in size.»

«The problem we're solving is that no matter what wavelength of light you use, the resolution of the image — the smallest feature you can resolve in a scene — depends upon this fundamental quantity called the diffraction limit, which scales linearly with the size of your aperture,» Veeraraghavan said.

The second is one with multiple layers in which each layer contains pores of different size scales, which gives it a different porosity.

In their paper, «Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy,» Krauss and Dent explore how a possible small coupling between the Higgs particle, and possible new particles likely to be associated with what is conventionally called the Grand Unified Scale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy denScale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy denscale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy denscale to correspond to the observed energy density.

Rescue workers and those who survived the Twin Towers» collapse were bathed in the dust, which contained particles of sizes ranging from the millimeter scale down to nanometers in width, the right size to embed deep in the lungs if inhaled.

Although the Isle Royale boat is almost toy - sized compared with the freighters that ply the Great Lakes, Green contends the relatively simple chlorine treatment could be scaled up to the biggest boats on the lakes as an emergency line of defense that would be far stouter than the saltwater flushing — the only protection for the lakes until ballast treatment systems are required for all overseas ships, which likely won't be until 2021 at the earliest.

«The size and scale of islands we're attempting is pushing the boundaries of the current technology,» which typically involves using anticoagulant rodenticides, says Karl Campbell, Island Conservation's project director.

For a typical paper - recycling factory, one Emefcy fuel cell module, which is about the size of a cubic meter, could treat about three cubic meters per day of wastewater depending on the amount of organic material present, according to Cohen, and the modules can be scaled to meet the needs of larger or smaller plants.

The researchers found that the bulk soil on Mars, across regional scales the size of the U.S. or larger, likely contains iron sulfates bearing chemically bound water, which typically result in acidic brines.

And not just any arteries — arteries scaled down to one tenth the size of a typical human's, which made the translation even trickier.

They found that the length scale over which softness was correlated was identical to the size of rearrangements, or the number of particles that move when failure occurs.

The cost difference is due, in part, to the smaller scale of the MyMicrobes operation, and in part to the size of the bacterial genome, which Bork says contains around 5 billion letters of DNA, compared to the 3.3 billion in the human genome.

(The skulls in the two nonhuman pelvises are human baby skulls scaled down to the likely size of an australopithecine baby's head, of which no fossils exist.)

The new model, which is a scaled - down version of an earlier numerical model by Shaqfeh and colleagues that provided the first large - scale, quantitative explanation of the formation of the layer, can predict how blood cells with varying shapes, sizes, and properties — including the crescent - shaped cells that are the hallmark of sickle cell anemia — will influence blood flow.

The researchers say that these insights into the size limits of sticky footpads could have profound implications for developing large - scale bio-inspired adhesives, which are currently only effective on very small areas.

Muscles also exhibit the property of scale invariance: their mechanism works equally efficiently at all sizes, which is why fundamentally the same muscle tissue powers both insects and elephants.

«By controlling the geometry and growth rates of groups of cells, you could then scale this up to control the size and shape of an organ such as a leaf, which is crucial for plant productivity.»

As part of the «Research in Collaborative Mathematics» project run by the Obra Social «la Caixa,» researchers of the Mathematics Research Centre (CRM) and the UAB have developed a mathematical law to explain the size distribution of earthquakes, even in the cases of large - scale earthquakes such as those which occurred in Sumatra (2004) and in Japan (2011).

The team found that the two most important properties of the object are its physical size, scale and the rate at which it is accreting matter.

That's about the size of an average nine - banded armadillo, but nowhere near the largest glyptodonts, which probably tipped the scales at a whopping 2 metric tons, the researchers say.

This photo shows a the specimen of Solanum cordicitum found in Valentine, Texas in 2013 with a dayback and plastic bag on the ground to provide some scale and indicate the small size of the prickly plant, which grows no higher than 14 inches.

Instead of starting with a full sized model of the turbine, the team built smaller scale versions of the turbines, of which Larry Page stressed that they needed to crash «at least five» to speed up the learning curve.

Ni also reported that with recent upgrades, their cells can transform CO2 to CO at double the rate of other CO2 - splitting electrolyzers of a comparable size, which could help them process large volumes of CO2 when scaled up.

Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop size.

Those early results are very positive, and strongly indicate that the nanoparticles could be useful for assessing how effective a therapy is on a much shorter time scale than current treatments, which usually rely on observing the size of the tumor.

One of my most used kitchen tools is my OXO food scale which helps me not only manage my caloric intake but, just as importantly, my finances by controlling my serving sizes.

I am hoping to abandon the scale and just focus on losing size while maintaining muscle, which seems to be what you're suggesting here.

I'm getting less and less aware of the number on the scale and more and more aware of the size of my bump, which I consider a success.

That all changes in the final skirmish and during parts of the climactic heist, in which director Peyton Reed uses the concept of relative size to poke fun of the notion of a large - scale destruction — a common staple in these superhero movies.

After measuring preschoolers, the students went on to collaboratively build a full - scale preschooler emergency shelter, which was quite popular with students and teachers of all sizes!

The Platform captures the financial value produced via landscape - scale restoration activities which are large enough in size to have an impact on a whole ecosystem rather than just piecemeal portions, yet also require major capital investment to accomplish.

And it's the small - to medium - sized districts — which serve nearly half of the nation's public school students — that could benefit the most from this initiative, as they don't have the scale to have much central - office capacity.

He complained of increasing class sizes, which were the result of compulsory universal education, while arguing that real teaching could take place only on a small scale and not in situations where a teacher's first responsibility was crowd control.

Ask anyone at Ford or Chrysler about mid-size trucks, and you get the same lecture: Mid-size pickups are nearly as expensive to develop and are thus nearly as expensive to buy as full - size pickups, which enjoy far greater economies of scale.

All together the Audi quattro concept tips the scales at just 1,300 kilograms (2,866.01 lb), which is roughly 200 kilograms (440.92 lb) lighter than even the comparably sized Audi TT RS, whose body is also largely made of aluminum.

Auto Week has posted two photos of a scaled down version of the new A7, which even with its small size, it still gives an early look.