Then they hired an engineer to fashion a meter with relay switches and a communications port.
Even many houses right underneath the grid cannot afford connection fees, a meter, and household wiring expenses.
Silver went to Ethiopia's Bekele, a meter back, with 19-year-old world champion Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya taking bronze.
Broadly speaking, nanotechnology describes work on materials whose critical dimensions are measured in nanometers, or one-billionth of a meter.
Think nanotubes of atoms, coated in titanium, a billionth of a meter thick, say the Yale and Rice teams.
Light of 193nm (nanometers, or billionths of a meter) can somehow be coaxed into creating patterns as small as 24nm.
Dr. CORELL: Well, if we get a meter of sea level rise, I'll step off my front step into water.
And finally, when the water receded, there was over a meter or mud that they had to be wading through.
First, consider the difficulties of manufacturing a device using a photographic process whose resolution is measured in billionths of a meter.
Look inside the optical viewfinder and you'll get a meter that helps you determine how you're oriented respective to the horizon.
The chip, in turn, wirelessly powered a radio-wave device that was located a meter away and measured energy from the ear.
"The Afghan nan (the local bread) is almost a meter-long and half-an-inch thick, " Ashok wrote in a typical post on his blog.
On Wednesday in San Francisco, Intel talked about its next big shift: to processors with features just 22 billionth of a meter wide.
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There's a meter tab that gives you a great view of what the current status of CPU, Battery Life, Memory Storage and Memory program.
Both the drywell and the wetwell are surrounded by a secondary containment vessel (or shield building) also built from reinforced concrete about a meter thick.
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The Financial Times (part-owner of The Economist) keeps readers on a meter, by charging those who look at more than ten articles a month online.
Replacing RPMs on the left is a meter that lets you know how much power the car is pumping out, relating to how far you press the accelerator.
In addition, the popular Motorola i680 will be updated as Motorola i686 with the capacity to be immersed in a meter of water for up to 30 minutes.
Nanotechnology is the science of the very small, where machines and materials are built at the molecular level, and key components are measured in nanometers, or one-billionth of a meter.
Gary Huss, a cosmochemist at the University of Hawaii, says chondrule formation would appear to be a required step to form planetary bodies of more than a meter in size.
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Scientific discoveries at nanoscale -- one billionth of a meter -- are finding their way out of the lab and into production, creating more efficient computer chips and coatings for glass.
The Hewlett-Packard scientist behind the project, Phil Kuekes, said his next step would be to build a 16-bit memory chip in a tiny square--no more than 100 billionths of a meter inside.
Inside the riser pipe is a space about half a meter in diameter, large enough to hold the spinning drill pipe and bit and to allow the return flow of drilling fluid.
Dr. James Friend, senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Monash University in Australia, is developing a nanobot propelled by a tiny rotor motor measuring about five-millionths of a meter.
The two clouds were separated by about half a meter, and were constantly affected by a combination of lasers and magnets, which had the effect of maintaining the entanglement for about an hour.
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Now on the scale of the next century, the projections are suggesting that, between the ice and thermal expansion of the ocean, that we're likely to see upwards of a meter of sea level rise.
If preferred, the owner also can take pictures of the surrounding area for reference, write a reminder note, email his or her location and set an alarm if the car is parked at a meter.
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The nebulous field of nanotechnology, freighted with as much hype as legitimate promise, boils down to the process of manipulating matter on a molecular scale (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, about the width of ten hydrogen atoms).
Japanese company Sohgo Security Services has developed the "Guardrobo D1, " a meter-tall robot that can patrol offices, homes or stores, watch for trouble using digital cameras and sensors, and alert human guards via radio if it detects a problem.
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