Sentences with phrase «small masses of»

When the pancreatic islets, small masses of cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, are exposed to high levels of nutrients — as is the case among people who eat a lot — they become inflamed.

Arvind Mahankali took home the grand prize in the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling «knaidel,» a word for a small mass of leavened dough (matzo, anyone?)

LIGO has previously spotted mergers of swirling black holes with masses tens of times that of the sun (SN Online: 9/27/17); the smaller masses of the orbiting duo pointed the finger at neutron stars.

Indeed, neutrinos have the smallest mass of any known particle — and yet they are incredibly important for understanding the world around us.

In the same way, when your muscles are small, you've got a smaller mass of muscle you're damaging with exercise.

If a smaller mass of air has to pass through the evaporator, less energy ends up in the refrigerant liquid, so the evaporator cools down faster.

io9 reader Richard Turner was on a walk in southeast Stockholm when he and his friend made a startling discovery on the side of the road — a small mass of what appeared to be organic matter, roughly the size of a tennis ball and crawling with tentacle - like projections.

Nodules are a small mass of tissue that forms on your puppy's body and they will almost resemble a knot, as they are very hard and are very easy to identify when you examine your puppies skin.

Still to be delivered: proof that the globe, or even that small mass of air above that small part of the Earth known as the Arctic, is being heated by increased atmospheric CO2.

Justify that claim: Calculate the Total mass of carbon and hydrogen «burned» by «man» over each of ten years (this would include all coal mined, all oil pumped, all natural gas burned, (and the vanishly small mass of wood burned by 4th world peasants).

He watched as a small mass of white powder cascaded out of the folds and onto his fingers.

A smaller mass of ice on a steep slope would continue to grind its way through the mountains but eventually disappears.

Gravity footings rely on a large and heavy mass of concrete to hold the turbine in place, while, if suitable bedrock is present a smaller mass of concrete can be bolted to the bedrock using rock anchors.

Not exact matches

Many small - business owners dream of selling their products in mass - market outlets.

She said small and medium producers were being forced to export most of their product because they can not compete domestically with the mass produced labels.

A draft angle means that the top opening of a product is ever so slightly smaller or larger than the bottom opening, allowing for quick removal from a manufacturing mold in mass production.

You could even share your own experience of small business marketing with the masses or offer advice to customers to promote your business with sharable snippets of all - essential information.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

He showed off the Aquila, an Internet - connected unmanned drone with the wingspan of a 737 and the «mass of a small car.»

«When you look at a galaxy you're only seeing a very small part of its mass,» Butterworth said.

In amongst the swirling mass of stars at its heart lie many intriguing systems, including X-ray sources, variable stars, vampire stars, unexpectedly bright «normal» stars known as blue stragglers, and tiny objects known as millisecond pulsars, small dead stars that rotate astonishingly quickly.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

«The small - business market was underserved until recently, but we've seen a huge increase in demand for our cyber products driven by a critical mass of incidents happening very publicly to large companies,» says Tim Zeilman, vice president at Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.

CVS and Walgreens targets mass market drugs, but if we could manage small communities of people who need these rare drugs that come with very specific directions on storage and usage, we thought we could help a lot of people and our business could survive.

Increasingly they are opting for local, smaller brands rather than the traditional mass - market items that until now have constituted most of Unilever's offerings.

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

We've talked to 8,000 consumers over that period of time and examined their shopping behaviors at physical stores large and small across four retail segments — mass merchants, including department stores, grocery, apparel and health and beauty.

SMS Assist utilizes a proprietary online software platform, ServiceTrack ™, to manage the outsourcing of facilities maintenance services for national clients including big - and small - box mass merchants, specialty retailers and other multi-location operations throughout North America.

The healing process might have taken a small step forward Friday in the wake of Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

We invested in a critical mass of small businesses as well as our own operations (mostly food and beverage) to help make the area both safer and more walkable.

Alone, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but combine it with these: (1) sales in the craft segment are slowing, and distinctive winners and losers are emerging; (2) large, independent brands not committed to deep cost - cutting are suffering, while corporate - owned craft brands are selling briskly; (3) small craft beer producers are still posting big growth gains; but (4) legacy mass market brands are collapsing; finally (5) mass market Mexican imports are killing it, especially (yay!)

In the world of longtail, especially in the mass niche kind of longtail, we will have more of smaller successes.

While a small percentage of the world population owns BTC to date and it has not yet been adopted by the masses, it was accessible to the masses from day one.

The corporate trend has been towards smaller more focused companies that can make specific strategic decisions and better capital allocation plans rather than being obscured by the overall mass of the parent company.

But mass shootings, we know by now, are only a small fraction of total gun deaths in the United States.

Small but influential, Professor Byron Sharp and his long tail of advocates have made quite the reputation for themselves in recent years, discounting the value of targeting and promoting the more complex idea of «sophisticated mass marketing».

The birds look out at me, at the man holding his iPhone to the wall so a distant friend can pray into its mortar, at the Israeli soldiers completing their training and swearing to die for their country before this last remnant of the second Temple, at the masses of praying men and women — the women in a smaller area, separated from the men and further from the holiest part of the Wall.

A large church constructed nearby displays photographs of victims, a small collection of personal items (such as shoes and glasses) recovered from the site's mass graves, and icons of those who have been canonized.

Every religion in the world, past and present, stems from the same basic premise «it's probably a good idea to be nice to each other» after that it gets twisted so that one small group of people can have some measure of control over a larger mass of people.

In a diocesan mass in celebration of marriage in Stockport on Saturday, the bishop will say that Brexit negotiations are a «small issue» compared with the urgency of repairing marriage and family life in the UK.

In this polemic against the mass, the crowd, Kierkegaard could never be justly accused of parading a new snobbish aristocracy, a small upper - house of supermen.

Their great hope is that the attention span of the «unwashed masses» will wane, doubtlessly after some small concessions are made to generate some positive PR.

Small political groups of peasants could not long resist the masses of the invaders» But the folk genius gave the most effective response through folk - lore which transformed these misfortunes into moments of joy and happiness.

The government often serves as the mediator in this transaction by taxing the rich, and then running the money through a vast array of bureaucracies until eventually, a small portion of what was given finally makes it to the nameless masses of poor people, many of whom do not even need the aid, are taking advantage of the system, or could otherwise work but choose not to.

The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same, Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help, and no help came; What their foes liked to do was done; their shame Was all the worst could wish: they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

How is it possible for atheists to be responsible for the mass slaughter of people while being, by many religious apologists estimations, an extremely small percentage of the population?

Small businesses also tended to suffer under self - regulation provisions that favored the efficiency of the mass - producing abilities of larger businesses (January 31, 1934).

While the question of a direct Petrine source, therefore, can never be fully answered, there are a number of signs that the author of the gospel put together a mass of material, some of which was already in small collections, whether written or oral.

Schumacher, the author of, among other works, Small is Beautiful (1973), sought to replace mass capitalism with labor - intensive technologies.

The «mass culture» that seems an inevitable accompaniment to industrial society has been rejected in favor of the intimate, the personal, the communal, the kind of culture that individuals and small groups can make for themselves.