Sentences with phrase «smaller size scale»

In the lab at a much smaller size scale, the researchers found they could use a similar process with two immiscible liquids such as glycerine or water and oil, a needle and a magnetically - controlled rotating stage.
«Conversely, in conditions involving very small size scales (the tip of a tunnelling electron microscope) such as those used in this study, the result is instead an increase in conductivity,» explains Requist.

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«Right now, because we're intent on keeping it small scale, we're leaving it to the facilitators to approach the students who are interested,» says Ibrahim, adding that class sizes will range from 10 to 200 students.
Like many small - scale entrepreneurs in established industries, he found networking and getting the word out about his business relatively easy thanks to the size of the community.
, 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.
On a global scale, the Canadian market is simply too small to cause those kinds of changes, and size matters when influencing international prices.
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.
It doesn't mean that (even as a small - or medium - sized business) our branding strategies can't achieve what Starbucks has (although perhaps on a smaller scale).
If there are some noticeable gaps in the European venture scene, the first is there is still a small number of European entrepreneurs who have built products and scaled and exited and then went on to become investors, relative to the size of the market.
Essential strategy, resources and coaching in dynamic workshops that equip small to medium - sized enterprises to scale up and overcome barriers to exporting.
The new service channel aims to benefit two types of Canadian companies: high - growth firms in search of unique talent with experience in scaling small and medium sized companies into multi-million dollar entities, and firms in need of highly specialized workers for positions that Canada's current talent pool can not fill.
This «city - state» was typically small in scale, with flexible but definite physical and geographic characteristics, It happened also to approximate the size of subsequent historic towns and urban neighborhoods — and for an obvious reason: it is an area that can be comfortably walked.
However, that suits the company just fine, as Buseman says the company's relatively small size means it has greater flexibility than many of its large - scale competitors.
I'm often taking a large version of something and scaling it down to a smaller size, but the little Jammer really does scale up well.
And yet by conflating all sizes and types of pig and poultry farms into one category, the package of reforms released by the NSW Government presents a major risk to the future of small - scale free - range pig and poultry farming.
Whether you'd prefer to order smaller sums or to buy in bulk, our sizing options offer the amounts needed to sustain a steady supply of fresh baked bread or to complete any large scale baking projects.
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.
Unofficial data suggests flat output as small and medium - sized farmers continue to leave the sector more quickly than large - scale operations expand.
Day 2 of the Free - from, allergy and intolerance seminar programme at the inaugural Food Matters Live event began with a session on Delivering free - from products in the foodservice sector, and featured speakers from two providers at opposite ends of the size spectrum — a small independent, and a full - scale national casual dining restaurant.
The Food Sovereignty Movement and its allies advocate for size - appropriate legislation that is reflective of the true nature of small - scale, ethical farming operations.
Just to give you an idea of what we do — the core of our customers are small and medium sized public and private schools (or districts) that typically do not have the adequate infrastructure to cook from scratch or the economies of scale in their buying power to source our level of ingredients.
Thatcherite Tories favoured scaling down the size of economic and social units: breaking up the welfare state and dismantling the corporate economy into privatized units run by entrepreneurs and business leaders operating within a smaller — but stronger — state.
The solution to the unemployment crisis lies with small and medium size enterprises that employ three, seven, fifteen and fifty people, and with large - scale industrial enterprises that employ people in their hundreds and thousands.
And while his administration routinely touts the plan's size as historic in scale — including in Monday's press release — the non-partisan Citizens Budget Commission says that adjusting for inflation, it's actually the smallest plan since 2000, or the second smallest, depending on how you crunch the numbers.
But it's small scale, and is bows and arrows against the lightning given the sheer size of the problem.
Moreover, they can operate at higher temperatures and be scaled down to smaller sizes.
The Nutritional State - structured Model (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resources.
It is also a great guitar for those with small hands, as the 3/4 scale size makes it easier for younger players and those with smaller hands and arms.
It is a 15/16 scale guitar, slightly smaller than a full - sized instrument, but that does not stop it from sounding larger than life.
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.
The hope is to get a lab - size geodynamo going under small - scale conditions that mimic those inside Earth.
«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.
A scale model is a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object being represented.
The effects of gravity leaking into such dimensions would be visible only over long distances — explaining why gravity on smaller scales, such as the size of the solar system, behaves as if there are three spatial dimensions.
NASA's Near - Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite the size of a shoebox, designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a full - scale solar sail deployment test at ManTech NeXolve's facility in Huntsville, Alabama, Sept. 13.
Falk and Hildebolt found that war deaths for both small - scale and more modern state societies escalate upward with increasing population sizes.
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.
«But the scales of lightning strikes are small and not likely to be confused for kilometer - size or larger impact cratering events.»
Despite years of research by scientists around the world, the extraordinarily small size of matter at the nanoscale has made it challenging to learn how motion works at this scale.
The Venkataraman - Roy team worked with smaller inorganic molecular clusters that were identical in shape and size, so they knew exactly — down to the atomic scale — what they were measuring.
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 «true» contact area is often substantially smaller than it would otherwise appear to be if observed at larger size scales.
Dr Ventsislav Valev, who oversaw the work, said: «There's a great deal of scientific excitement about miniaturisation and working on nano - sized dimensions at the very small scale.
Plus, on even smaller scales within clouds, mixing affects the spacing between drops, what size they are and how they are distributed throughout the clouds.
In their initial small - scale lab versions, they showed the stored heat can remain stable for at least 10 hours, whereas a device of similar size storing heat directly would dissipate it within a few minutes.
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.
Another concern is that most of the supercritical carbon dioxide systems demonstrated to date were built at kilowatt scales, too small to offer useful lessons for a full - sized version.
Ultimately, Falk and Hildebolt found that people living in small - scale societies are not inherently more violent that those living in «civilized» states, and that war deaths scale similarly with population sizes across all levels of human society.
«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».
In the Coast Guard's spring tests, small - scale models navigated an ice sheet as long as one - and - a-half Olympic - sized swimming pools at the National Research Council's ice - tank test facility in Newfoundland to measure various designs» resistance, power and maneuverability (shown below).
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