Sentences with phrase «thousands of times smaller»

Johns Hopkins tissue engineers have used tiny, artificial fiber scaffolds thousands of times smaller than a human hair to help...

This is tens of thousands of times smaller than a typical galaxy!

Although the measured speed of light has decreased only about 1 % during the past three centuries, the decrease is statistically significant, because measurement techniques can detect changes thousands of times smaller.

Working in collaboration with Douglas Goff, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Guelph (Canada), Zuluaga Gallego and Velásquez Cock extracted cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs), which are thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair, from ground - up banana rachis.

The nanoliposomal drug delivery system is made up of millions of nano - sized capsules, which are thousands of times smaller than a speck of dust and releases their contents slowly over time.

These 25 - nanometer - wide tubes — thousands of times smaller than a red blood cell — are found in every cell in plants and animals.

These bubbles are thousands of times smaller than the tip of a pencil lead — so small they are invisible even under most optical microscopes — and their stability makes them useful in a variety of applications, from targeted drug delivery to water treatment procedures.

Although it is among the brightest and nearest active galaxies, its torus still appeared tens of thousands of times smaller than the moon (arxiv.org/abs/1604.00205).

Today, lab mice live in shoebox - size cages hundreds of thousands of times smaller than their natural ranges, and rats can't forage or even stand upright.

The three laureates thought otherwise and over the years, using «a pair of gigantic laser interferometers to measure a change thousands of times smaller than an atomic nucleus, as the gravitational wave passed the Earth,» the LIGO project found success, the Nobel committee said.

Not exact matches

«ADP — the world's largest payroll provider — has cut thousands of their small business customers off from using Zenefits to automate their time - consuming payroll administration work,» Zenefits wrote in an open letter to customers that it later posted to its blog.

«Most business owners don't realize they could be saving thousands of dollars per month if they only used the right systems, programs and expense optimization tactics,» explains Gerber, who along with Paugh recently co-founded SimpleBusiness, an absolute must - have membership for every small business owner, startup founder and freelancer that saves time, headaches and money on everyday business - related expenses and name - brand services (more on that below).

And yet, when you've seen thousands upon thousands of start - up pitches, when you've been sold every idea a dozen times -; Kickstarter for small business!

But by the time everything was over, the village was an estimated $ 8.5 million in debt, a potentially crippling figure for a small village of a few thousand people.

All he did was offer her a small packet of prescription slips which he was certain would take care of a problem he had seen a thousand times before.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

Battery farms consist of huge, windowless sheds housing thousands of hens who are crammed four or five at a time into small wire cages stacked on top of each other in rows.

While that sounds like a small number that will not cause thermal damage, it is easily thousands if not millions of times higher than the energy density shown to cause biological damage in hundreds of studies, as biological damage typically shows up in the micro to picowatt range.

Now truthfully, I'm sure that they do tell the truth on occasion, but I really don't have time to sit a sift through the multiple thousands of pages of documents to find a small simple grain of truth.

As the Obama campaign found, online fundraising also lets a campaign tap the vast number of politically interested people who can't donate hundreds or thousands of dollars at time but whose smaller donations can add up to a princely sum.

At a time when weak demand in the construction industry is holding back the economic recovery, the government must be more open minded about stimulating private sector demand, particularly for the industry's hundreds of thousands of small businesses, and help ordinary homeowners at the same time.

In particular, Facebook and Google can be great channels to get in front of a lot of eyeballs for a relatively small price — for Facebook campaigns, for instance, an ad that's clicked (and hence paid - for) a few thousand times will be displayed MILLIONS of times.

We're talking about very small sums of money that stand in between people and many times their mortgage modifications that can keep them in their homes, seven, eight, ten thousand bucks,» said Schneiderman.

While the Rockland County Times certainly can not claim credit for our President's «change of heart» on this vital issue, the many weeks of articles that the Rockland County Times devoted to explaining the critical nature of this project, which will bring many thousands of high - paying jobs into the New York - New Jersey Metropolitan Area as well as provide a much - needed «ONE - SEAT» train ride from Rockland County directly into Penn station, might have had some small influence on this favorable outcome!

«There's only a small probability that an individual species can successfully invade on a single voyage, but if you do this thousands of times, then you will see species establish themselves.»

For the first time, a dozen small black holes have been spotted within the inner region of the galaxy in an area spanning just a few light - years — and there could be thousands more.

As the ice clusters were ten thousand times smaller than a grain of sand, the researchers couldn't merely watch them melt.

In much smaller wells, measuring about 70 microns wide, thousands of bacteria began to behave in orderly way, swimming in a spiral, in the same direction within the well, for long periods of time.

For instance, small fruit flies have the longest sperm ever described, not whales, whose sperm are less than a tenth of a millimeter long and almost a thousand times shorter than those of the flies.

That's a region thousands of times larger than the full moon, but still much smaller than the one given by Fienga.

Three observatories in the U.S. and Germany are monitoring the entire sky for these signals, but the data analysis is so time - consuming that the researchers need to enlist hundreds of thousands of small computers to help.

These chemicals can be tens of thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat, so even small amounts leaking into the atmosphere could have an outsized impact on the climate.

But smaller - scale bursts called terrestrial gamma - ray flashes (TGFs) can occur much closer to home, erupting thousands of times a year in association with lightning strikes during storms in Earth's atmosphere.

There are two different black hole scenarios proposed to explain these objects: (1) they contain very «big» black holes that could be more than a thousand times more massive than the Sun (Note 1), or (2) they are relatively small black holes, «little monsters» with masses no more than a hundred times that of the Sun, that shine at luminosities exceeding theoretical limits for standard accretion (called «supercritical (or super-Eddington) accretion,» Note 2).

These sources seemed best explained by hot matter spiraling into black holes tens to thousands of times as massive as the small ones born at the hearts of individual supernova explosions (ScienceNOW, 7 June 2001).

The crystals each contained about 9,000 copies of the protein, about one - thousand times smaller than crystals used before.

«The largest superparamagnetic materials that we have been able to make before now were clusters of nanocrystals that were together about a thousand times smaller than these,» commented Dr. Chen.

Each capsule is just 20 nanometers across; that's a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

By implementing either superresolution structured illumination or by dithering the lattice to create a uniform light sheet, we imaged cells and small embryos in three dimensions, often at subsecond intervals, for hundreds to thousands of time points at the diffraction limit and beyond.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

Although the tiny particles are around ten thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, the surface area of a kilogram of such particles is equivalent to that of several football fields.

A mouse brain is a thousand times smaller than a human brain and lacks several kinds of brain cells that are abundant in humans.

The jacket and its short strand of DNA can be extremely small — a thousand times smaller than a bacterium.

Although droplets are thousands of times more numerous, previous studies have shown that adding even a small number of ice crystals to these clouds can lead to a fast dissipation of the cloud water.

Saying that changes on a small time scale are small compared with changes that happened over hundreds of thousands of years isn't saying an awful lot.

The extremely thin diameter of 1.5 nanometers (over 60,000 times thinner than a human hair) means that thousands of the wires can easily be packed into a very small space.

Dangerous brain tumors hijack the brain's existing blood supply throughout their progression, by growing only within narrow potential spaces between and along the brain's thousands of small blood vessels, new research shows for the first time.

From the thousands of confirmed and candidate exoplanets, our galaxy seems to have a strong preference for two types of small exoplanets: Rocky worlds up to 1.75 times larger than Earth and gas - covered worlds between 2 to 3.5 times larger than Earth.

«They [quantum dots] are more than five thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, which enables them to straddle the worlds of quantum and classical physics and gives them useful optical properties,» said project lead Ted Sargent, a professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr..

Soy in Asia, as it has been consumed for thousands of years, is always fermented for long periods of time before it can be safely consumed — and even then — in very small quantities!