Sentences with phrase «smaller scale technology»

A small population like that would presumably eat about the same quantity of food or a bit more, but you can only eat so much food even if its abundant, and beyond that the smaller scale technology they would have would have limited ability to extract minerals and produce goods.

That context of course makes it easier to sustain the «lifestyle must change radically» view, since, with some exceptions, small scale technology is, arguably, the most constrained / constraining green option - it is hard to get major national - level savings that way.

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Corporate venture capital also lets large companies operate on a smaller scale, which lets them innovate faster, conduct research on disruptive technologies and pre-empt competitors.

SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

It's often the case that smaller companies, operating on lean start - up principles, are able to move rapidly, test out new technologies, and scale them up at a substantially lower price point that it would cost a large defense contractor.

In an interview with technology publication Ars Technica earlier this month, Deadmau5 explained that the new game «was me getting my feet wet into VR, on a small scale, obviously.»

Smaller companies, operating on lean start - up principles, are able to move rapidly, test out new technologies, and scale them up at a substantially lower price point.

, a program created in 2004 by Mexico's Secretary of Economy and the US - Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), launched with the aim of «strengthening the entrepreneurial, technological and innovative capacities of small and medium sized technology - based companies» and to help startups scale their products and great ideas into foreign markets.

October 14, 2011 i - CANADA Responds to Industry Minister Paradis: Uses of Advanced Technology by Small - scale, Entrepreneurial Organizations

When it comes to technology infrastructure, small and medium - sized businesses need the same tools and support services as large enterprises — just on a smaller scale and at prices they can afford,» Dev said.

Senno project, built on the NEO blockchain, aims to bring sentiment data analysis to small and medium scale businesses with blockchain technology.

The report shows that gaps in Canada's capital supply cause Canadian companies to scale more slowly, take longer to exit, and achieve smaller outcomes than U.S. technology peers.

Your startup must incorporate technology into the approach of your product, which allows the company to rapidly and massively scale in a manner that traditional, independent small businesses can not.

Others referred to smaller - scale expenditures, such as investments in information technology or office equipment in the case of many service firms.

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To significantly leverage technology to democratize institutional - caliber real estate investing for tens of millions of smaller investors worldwide, thereby helping them Build Wealth and a more Secure Financial Future through high - quality, liquid, and professionally vetted micro real estate ownership opportunities on a global scale.

In a number of countries (Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong) the introduction of computer - aided manufacturing (CAM) technologies in small - scale industries has been very successful.

It also requires the development of technology for small - scale, rural - based industry with particular attention to environmental monitoring.

Most of his talks and the bulk of the questions he fielded had to do with the unorthodox economic proposals set forth in his book and his other writings: the idea, above all, of an «intermediate technology» appropriate in scale and cost to the needs and conditions of the people using it — neither too large nor too small.

There may be some truth in that approach with respect to the earlier stage of the technological advance and probably also with respect to small - scale technologies.

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No - till, low - input technology has the potential to conserve soil health and support robust vegetable production for small - scale and low - capital organic vegetable growers, reports Gladis Zinati, Ph.D., associate research scientist at Rodale Institute.

Privately owned Transborders Energy has allied with a major Asian LNG buyer to advance its small - scale floating LNG technology, with about 4...

has been involved as a private consultant in international horticultural development work since the 1980s, and has been specialising in postharvest technology, food loss reduction and the extension of information on small - scale postharvest handling practices since 1992 as Principal Consultant of the firm Extension Systems International.

Traditional farming methods, organic agriculture, and small - scale farming, are championed while all that is associated with the Green Revolution is reviled: in short, science and technology are bad; natural, organic and small - scale is good.

Topics up for discussion this year include issues around genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture, the impact of regulation and planning schemes on small - scale farmers, hunger activism and the «right to food», and food sovereignty at a global level.

The elements of the fight have included public education, suspension of small scale mining operations to allow recovery of polluted water bodies, training of 400 small scale miners in sustainable mining practices at the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa and establishment of Operation Vanguard, a 400 man strong security force to maintain security in mining districts and to enforce the ban.

It affirmed that the Kainji plant serves as a demonstration of innovative small - scale electrification solutions which is the first renewable energy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology, and is able to operate both off - grid and on - grid.

«Our budget will focus on technology, power, transportation, access to solar power, promotion of entreprenureship small scale businesses.

«The RC Refinery, in collaboration with its Canadian partners, will support and promote sustainable organisation on artisanal and small - scale miners to create access to technology, machines, equipment and financing, which are essential to improve capacity», he said.

The technology is allowing basic scientists and small companies to generate impressive libraries of molecules, on a scale once reserved for big pharma, and select from them the most useful compounds.

The needed technologies are available — high - yield seeds, fertilizer, small - scale irrigation — but the financing is not.

The first simulations of input - output processes will probably be small - scale too, but Gu hopes to ultimately see quantum technologies simulating how complex systems will react and evolve in real life situations.

The Obama administration's neuroscience initiative highlights new technologies to better understand the workings of brain circuits on both a small and large scale.

In the world of nano - scale technology, where work is conducted at the atomic level, even the smallest changes can have an enormous impact.

Others have devised and even built such small - scale cooling systems, says Leonard Schulman, a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, but the distinction in the new work is that it is self - contained — the qubits do not need to receive instructions from outside the system.

It is hoped that graphene - oxide membrane systems can be built on smaller scales making this technology accessible to countries which do not have the financial infrastructure to fund large plants without compromising the yield of fresh water produced.

Such technologies have been demonstrated on a small scale to enhance the recovery of oil from tapped out fields; pumping down the CO2 pushes up more of the black gold.

The green revolution in the 1960s was a package of technologies that included high - yield variety seeds combined with fertilizer and small - scale water management.

«As length scales become smaller from several hundred miles to a few tens of miles, we discovered the point at which geostrophic balance becomes no longer valid — meaning that sea level is no longer useful for calculating ocean circulation,» said Qiu, professor at the UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).

«It's not that new laws of nature are being discovered,» says nanotechnologist Uzi Landman of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US, «but a reduction in size brings about differences in how familiar laws of physics play out at a small scale».

Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers outline how satellite imagery, geolocation technology, small area surveys, statistical methods and computing power can come together to map high - resolution national population estimates, comparable or exceeding the level of detail of those derived from census material and with the ability to interrogate information down to the local scale.

A new bio-inspired zeolite catalyst might pave the way to small scale «gas - to - liquid» technologies converting natural gas to fuels and starting materials for the chemical industry.

The technology refined for those smaller versions will be tested and scaled up when the massive DUNE detectors are built.

A new bio-inspired zeolite catalyst, developed by an international team with researchers from Technische Universität München (TUM), Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Amsterdam, might pave the way to small scale «gas - to - liquid» technologies converting natural gas to fuels and starting materials for the chemical industry.

To 3D print vessels on such a small scale — 100 microns, small enough for tiny blood vessels — Chen leveraged his connection to Innolign, a Boston biomedical technology company he helped found.

The THaW team conducts research related to mobile and cloud technology for health and wellness applications, including authentication and privacy tools to protect health records, methods to secure small - scale clinical networks and efforts to reduce malicious activity in hospitals.

At the moment the company is working with NASA to develop technology that would predict how small - scale, seasonal shifts in temperature as well as large - scale climate change influence the presence of bacteria in the soil, air and water around crops.

«Our model shows that pulsed electric fields preservation technology does not require a constant electricity supply; it can be powered for only 5.5 hours a day using small, family scale solar panels,» said Dr. Golberg.

Some of the first applications of such technology, though on a much smaller physical scale, could be medical.