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.
Not exact matches
«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 den
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 den
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 den
scale 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).