Sentences with phrase «very small advance»

A pessimist might say that this is a very small advance over a decade.

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«Business owners need to be aware of the very high price of merchant cash advances,» says Mitch Jacobs, founder and CEO of On Deck Capital, which provides unsecured small business loans to companies denied by traditional banks.

When the market gets very depressed, we can (and frequently do) make small but important changes in our hedges that allow us to lock in profits and benefit from any surprise advance.

I use inflation for the advanced countries because global inflation data are always affected by a small number of countries that from time to time have very high inflation or hyperinflation.

It requires very little to establish a foreign residency in many countries other than a bit of advanced planning and perhaps a small investment.

The latter is very powerful and has given us our present level of technology with all of its comforts, but these advances were created by a small minority.

But engineering is basically and advanced skilled trade (as are most medical fields — I'm not putting it down) and a field in which you need to know only a very small set of practical information.

Advanced LIGO is fine - tuned to home in on more detectable (and scientifically relevant) fare: waves emitted from regions where a lot of mass is packed into small spaces and moving very quickly.

To accomplish this, a photocatalyst that is operable under lower - energy light needed to be developed, but since the energy that can be used for the water - splitting reaction would also be smaller, more advanced material design was required, which posed a very difficult challenge.

They say that humans with big brains, and perhaps great intelligence, occupied a substantial piece of southern Africa in the not very distant past, and that they eventually gave way to smaller - brained, possibly less advanced Homo sapiens — that is, ourselves.

This is very important, as plants captured by the advancing ice cap 6,000 years ago are now emerging along its retreating margins, which shows that Quelccaya is now smaller than it has been in six thousand years.

Using many advanced techniques though, we saw that some very small, low - molecular - weight compounds were working their way into the cell wall.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

«I am not very happy with these small increases» says C. N. R. Rao, a chemist at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore and science adviser to the prime minister.

Lithium Australia (LIT) has finalized its acquisition of advanced cathode material production technology, acquiring 99.7 % of the equity in Brisbane - based Very Small Particle Company (VSPC).

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is the world's most advanced visible - light and infrared telescope, consisting of four 8.2 m diameter telescopes and four smaller telescopes, which can work together as an interferometer to enable observations in even greater detail.

The committee also calls attention to the potential for very cost - effective and scientifically fruitful advances with the advent of long - duration (10 - day) balloon flights and the expected availability after the final 2 years of development of ultralong - duration (up to 100 - day) balloon flights (see the section «The National Virtual Observatory and Other High - Leverage, Small Initiatives» in Chapter 3).

Seeing the universe in sharp focus will almost certainly help advance our understanding of the whole universe — from the very large to the very small.

Of course as you become more advanced some equipment might become necessary (e.g. pull up bar, rings, etc), but the investment is still very small in comparison to weight training, in which expensive equipment becomes necessary later on.

To give you an example of the difference between a small amount of very nutrient - dense animal foods and no animal foods at all, consider vitamin B12: 64 % of vegans, 43 % of lacto - ovo - vegetarians and 16 % of the elderly in one study were found to have stage III (relatively advanced and becoming serious) vitamin B12 deficiency.

The site has advanced features like webcam chat and search tool that lets you narrow down your potential partners list to a very small number, it lets you browse and filter their interests, age, area and many more parameters, all to make your match more likely to be your soul mate.

The small nation of Wakanda is a protected valley enclave in east Africa, hidden from outside eyes by some very advanced technology fueled by the alien metal vibranium, which arrived via asteroid millennia ago.

Some attribute the comparatively small percentages of students performing at the advanced level to the focus of the 2002 federal accountability statute, No Child Left Behind, on the educational needs of very low performing students.

1946 H.R.G. Aerodynamic — This interesting but not very successful sporting car is assessed by H.R.G. expert Ian Dussek / Registration records, Part 6 — David Hales continues his series of articles explaining what records survive and where / 1932 Singer Junior restored — David Hawtin talked to the owner of this splendily restored family saloon and discovered why it was an advanced design for its day / Origins of the small car — The development of the early voiturette is traced for us by Bryan Goodman / Car badges — In Part I of this article Michael Worthington - Williams illustrates well - known and not - so - well known examples / 1934 TT Ford V8 — The Editor describes this inexpensive but capable performer that excelled in road racing trials and sprints / Brooklands 200 - mile race — The last race using the outer circuit was run in 1924.

Its 40 - mpg EPA highway rating is very impressive, while the 6 - speed PowerShift transmission is one of the most advanced of those in any small car.

Independent presses are small presses that publish STRANGERS» books because they fall in love with the books, and they work very hard to scrape together funds for advances, contracts, editors, layout, cover artists, advertising, and print runs.

(I seldom did, with 12 books by major publishers... never any publicity, little editing, very little money over the small advance, sigh.)

With the expansive growth of social media, and tech advances that help multiply reach and increase access, even the smallest of businesses, with the smallest of budgets (authors included) are able to grab and hold the attention of their target audiences in a very impactful way — through brand storytelling.

The amount that you as the writer receive as an advance and the amount you receive in royalties may seem very small.

To add to their credit, participants who advance to the ABNA Quarter Finals actually receive two reviews of their work read by judges from Publisher's Weekly, which can look very encouraging when submitting a manuscript to a small press or even when considering traditional publishing.

Which just leaves the hard financial argument: publishers are slashing advances, and yet still only pay a very small royalty on each sale to authors — a couple of dollars tops on a $ 10 paperback, often far less.

«They are usually labors of love and nobody gets rich, but they're often a good way to break in to print and lots of authors are very happy to stay with a small press where there is a more personal interaction with editors... Authors are responsible for their own marketing and there's generally no advance, but higher royalties.»

I very much wanted to be able to partner with Amazon, but their inability to guarantee anything past a small advance was a real turn - off.

For an interesting look at actual first novel advances in a very small segment of the book market — science fiction and fantasy — see Tobias Buckell's advance survey.

Since a payday cash advance loan is actually designed to be repaid in full within two weeks of the loan date, charging APR on that loan would leave the loan company with a very small amount of interest.

Dr Henry works with horses as well as small animals and is able to do very advanced procedures such as root canals and pulling large molars in horses.

Using the retropropulsion technique, a very small, catheter is slowly advanced into your cat's bladder.

As a small and very delicate dog it does require lots of attention and preliminary investigation of each taken food product in advance.

The certification requirements are very comprehensive, requiring constant study in new practices and advances in small animal veterinary medicine.

Sandy Point Solutions provides its clients with some of the most advanced intellectual property in this very small network.

Our classes are small (4) students and our teachers are all very professionals with advanced training in teaching Spanish as a Second Language for international Instructor.

Great for: Small animals, underwater photography, walls, wrecks, drift dives, reef life and health and advanced divers Not so great for: Beginners Depth: 5 - > 40m Visibility: 10 - 80m Currents: Can be very strong Surface Conditions: Calm Water Temperature: 19 - 30 °C Experience Level: Intermediate - advanced Number of dive sites: ~ 500 Access: Dive resorts and liveaboard charters Recommended length of stay: 2 - 4 weeks

Great for: Large animals, small animals, drift dives, visibility, advanced divers and non-diving activities Not so great for: Underwater photography and snorkelling Depth: 5 - > 40m Visibility: 10 - 45m Currents: Can be very strong Surface Conditions: Calm Water Temperature: 19 - 26 °C Experience Level: Beginner - advanced Number of dive sites: ~ 50 Access: Dive resorts Recommended length of stay: 1 - 2 weeks

according to dice they both look equally crappy (run at pc lowest settings) at 1280x704 with no v - sync, no texture filtering and smaller maps and player count the ps3 uses spu based differed rendering while 360 uses tile based differed rendering they are both the same thing but the ps3 version is simoly called spu based differed rendering because the differed rendering is done on SPU and NOT the gpu the 360s gpu is much more advanced than the ps3s gpu (which is why the gpu can handle the differed rendering while with ps3 it must be done on spus) while the ps3s cpu is better at graphics calculations and simple physics than the 360s cpu but the 360 cpu does win in branch intensive operations ust so you know the 360s cpu can also help out with graphics operations and post processing effects just not as much as the cell because MS focused on putting more power into the gpu even IBM stated that the cell is better for more things than xenon but that the 360s gpu is «very sophisticated» compared to the ps3s rsx.

As a result of this Chaos on Deponia's narrative barely even gets off the ground until well into the game when you suddenly get a small blast of information that advances the storyline and then nothing again until the very end.

It's a nice addition to the very small number covenants as well as another one you can advance within.

In the small urban - scape petroleum paintings, Kitchel pointedly co-opts the very materials and byproducts of industry as her primary artistic medium with intent to advance her conceptual imperative.

Windmills have also been around a long time and are now very advanced — some are small & quiet & can be mounted on a roof.

Like the earlier warming event and migrations, the most recent northward advance of small fish such as sardines, anchovies and herring correlate very well with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and the current distribution of fish from southerly waters is «almost identical to that described by Aurich for 1951.»

The new, smaller iPad Pro features four - speaker audio, a rear flash, Apple Pencil support, a Smart Connector for an all - new 9.7 - inch Smart Keyboard, Apple's most advanced iPad camera yet, and some very, very cool True Tone technology for matching the ambient light wherever you are.