Now that Ushio is sober, and actively making large-scale works using paint and boxing gloves, Noriko has begun flourishing in her own career, documenting their life in illustrations for a graphic novel that exposes their intimate secrets.
Even larger leaps in sizing technology are being made by companies like Acustom Apparel, which uses 3D body scanners along with pattern-making software to scale the creation of custom-fitted clothing at a digestible price point.
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AstraZeneca ( AZN - news - people ) tapped into the booming Chinese pharmaceutical market by making large-scale, multiyear offshoring investments in everything from manufacturing to sales, partnering with local universities, government organizations and Chinese companies.
The changes include moving the development further out to sea and making it smaller in scale.
They have to look inward, rapidly exploiting economies of scale and making major shifts in operational efficiency.
Even China is finally opening up to private agricultural investment, in part because new laws allow farmers to lease land, thus making possible economies of scale.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency has classified the Tokaimura accident, which was the worst in Japanese history, as level four on its seven-point scale, making it the world's most serious since the level-seven disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.
Oh, no, he is making the first full-scale reenactment of the 20th century.
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Security camera footage from the aquarium shows the seal making several unsuccessful attempts to scale the barrier fencing, hampered by her sheer size and physical make-up.
It should ultimately be capable of making ultralight cars at automotive scale and cost, halving steel cars' weight and fuel use, improving safety, costing no more per car and saving oil equivalent to finding a Saudi Arabia under Detroit.
At the time of the Yahoo acquisition, Geocities had focused on monetization and let scale grow on its own, making a few mistakes along the way in terms of figuring out monetization at scale.
The Internet is making it easier for small-scale African entrepreneurs to sell farm goods in Europe.
The accident measured 4 on an international scale of 7, making it Japan's worst nuclear disaster.
Gandur is making friends lower down the social scale, as well.
G8 can take a global lead both in making the world aware of the scale of the problem and in proposing ways to tackle them.
Insisting on having more than one supplier is probably a good idea, although there are strong arguments that economies of scale are vital to making nuclear energy affordable.
Certainly, greenhouse gas emissions are not the only consideration to be borne in mind in choosing a particular biofuel, and there is the matter of production-costs and the feasibility of making the fuel on the large scale, if any significant substitution for petroleum-derived fuels is to prove practical.
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Though Symbian's certainly not getting as much share of the mobile discussion these days as some of its smaller competitors, it's certainly important to keep in mind that these guys have software deployed on literally hundreds of millions of devices, making this perhaps the largest-scale conversion of a closed operating system to open source in history.
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The young people will also visit key venues in Maritime Greenwich, enjoy a special boat trip and treasure hunt using a specially devised mobile phone app, take part in a large-scale dance extravaganza, Making Waves, and enjoy a conference opening event in the spectacular Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College, a location for many celebrated movies including Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger Tides.
The system is small and modular, unlike traditional tyre making, which has big economies of scale.
Ninety minutes south of the Jim Beam Distillery, Corsair Artisan Distillery is making unique spirits on a very small scale.
The providers in the space companies such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are making massive investments to constantly increase the scale, automation, and efficiency of these data centers.
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The debut of Vocre 2.0 follows last week's release of Vocre 1.1, which dramatically improved the mobile app that is now both free and supports 23 languages from 22 countries making the app accessible on a global scale.
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Now, the question for Electra Therm is -- or any of these companies that are innovating -- is, is there enough demand out there that they can start building to scale, they can start making the capital investments that allow them to catch up with these older ways of producing electricity that had a 50-year head start?
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In 2003 Schneider decided to invest in a fleet-wide "tactical planning simulator" that would use software algorithms to mimic the decision making of human dispatchers on an inhumanly large scale.
And on the same scale, where should the decision-making process be in the new company?
The appetite in Washington for a full-scale return to Middle East peace-making may be limited.
To the extent that more electric generation is required, no problem: Just lay the small-scale modules next to each other, making the financial outlays more manageable.
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This dynamic is also making things comparatively more difficult to build big, utility-scale solar power projects.
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