If a car manufacturer, say, were limited to its home market, it would have a choice between producing small quantities of a number of models and large quantities of just a few, which could be produced more cheaply thanks to economies of scale.
Micro-grids are an important solution: a combination of a generator and hardened distribution system can supply reliable and larger quantities of electricity to a small circuit of users including emergency services, shelters, gas stations and grocery stores.
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After rudimentary purification and regeneration of the biocatalysts, the CO2 is transferred to a Biocatalytic Reactor Matrix where mass quantities of biocatalysts function in a matrix of liquid reaction chambers breaking down CO2 and turning it into hydrocarbons.
The growing demands of the U.S. military for the bandwidth necessary to transfer in a secure fashion immense quantities of video and other data in real-time to commanders and forces all over the world transform this fiber optic infrastructure being sold by Tyco into something else altogether - a force-multiplier of immeasurable value.
But even for me, a foie gras fan, dishes with larger quantities of liver reminded me of why I hated liver as a kid.
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To imagine that private industry, needing to cut costs to the bone, could do a better job at securing massive quantities of bomb-grade material is a fantasy.
However, if the information about dozens of storage sites is right, then there is a distinct possibility that significant quantities of these weapons could go missing, even if the US plans were 95% effective.
Cellulosic ethanol is still made in small quantities and a number of once-ambitious startups have gone out of business.
So if someone calls you up and suggests that you might like to invest a bit in physical quantities of rare earth metals.
While Russia's is a cash-driven economy, there are rules making it hard to withdraw large quantities of cash from a bank.
The team conducted a series of experiments in which known quantities of five such chemicals were mixed with water and passed through a dishwasher, a washing machine, a shower head inside a shower stall or a tap in a bath, all inside a specially designed chamber.
Minute quantities of abnormal a-syn from older diseased mice exhibiting neurological symptoms were injected into one mouse group.
Zhang lead a Virginia Tech team that developed a way to produce large quantities of hydrogen from xylose, an abundant simple sugar that makes up 30 percent of the cell walls of plants.
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There were reports overnight of heavy selling of gold in the Asian markets, with some speculating a government may have been selling large quantities of gold.
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Collection centers and hospitals could meet to strike a deal on the types and quantities of pints.
Others again see deals as a way to lock in vast quantities of inexpensive feedstock in such places as Brazil.
Eagerly awaiting large quantities of vaccine for a mass vaccination campaign, Foege and two CDC colleagues were then plunged into dealing with a sudden smallpox outbreak.
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The idea of analysing or synthesising small quantities of chemicals in a chip-sized apparatus is not new, but labs on chips have conventionally relied on systems of tiny pipes etched into them to move the chemicals around.
Mr Manolopoulos says although some of this money has been spent, he thinks a proportion has been sent abroad, and large quantities of euro notes are stashed under mattresses.
For most of the past year, the European Central Bank (ECB) has made vast quantities of cash available to euro-zone banks at a fixed rate of 1%, which in turn has pushed down mortgage rates.
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The only solution is that the ECB start buying Italian bonds in large quantities: tens of billions a day.
Individuals find it difficult to cope with the vast quantities of cash consumed by a modern nation state, and everyday rules of thumb can sometimes lead to utterly wrong conclusions.
As you know, yesterday BP began a controlled burn designed to remove large quantities of oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and marine and other wildlife.
Glaxo's Stephenne hopes to sell huge quantities of malaria vaccine for a modest profit, while using its adjuvant components for more lucrative vaccines, such as one to prevent lung cancer recurrence.
Delhi draws three-quarters of its drinking water from the Yamuna river, into which the city dumps quantities of sewage, almost all of it untreated, to join a cocktail of farm chemicals and industrial effluents, including arsenic.
Salesforce.com remains a stock with much upside, according to analysts at RBC Capital Markets, as the company continues to control larger quantities of customer data and leads the way to a post cloud world.
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The problem of finding meaningful patterns among the huge quantities of genetic data that are provided by biochips was recently tackled by a team of researchers led by Todd Golub and Donna Slonim, of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Quantities of public information and condoms a-plenty have helped halve the infection rate among young urban Ugandans since the beginning of the decade.
When the central bank does sell dollars, it is to a small group of buyers and in smaller quantities than seen in the past, traders said.
We've been known to mule-about vast quantities of gear for hours at a time in order to bring you the latest and greatest in gadgets at a real-time pace.
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