The tax also applies to bags made from paper, plant-based material, or natural starch.
All that's needed, apparently, is an energy source, some sort of carbon-based material and a bit of water.
The result is that broadcasters who feel that film-based material is their bread and butter will often choose 1080i.
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The technique works by focusing high-powered microwaves on plant-based material, transforming the tough cellulose molecules of the plant matter into volatile gases.
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This includes a patented hinge concept that makes screws and soldering obsolete, and the company's own polyamide-based material, called Mylon, which makes frames lighter and more durable.
Among the announcements at Beijing Design Week, however, US based Material Connexions, the leading materials library and consultancy, announced a new Beijing office, its first in China.
Some of Lock's routine-based material is the best around, but the overall performance seemed to try to cover a variety of areas - linking in with the Wikipedia-esque tour title "Lockipedia" - some are successful and others not so.
The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material "scraped" from social networks.
The firms were trading Dell and NVIDIA stock based on material, non-public information.
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Many products also use petroleum-based raw material inputs somewhere in the suppl chain.
In theory, insider trading involves the buying or selling of securities based on material corporate information still unknown to the public.
Which is why we are seeing so many sequels, remakes and films based on material that automatically comes with a fan base.
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The exhibition is based around material that was donated to the museum by ex-members of the WLA in 1989 and augmented by their personal reflections.
To enable this material to store electrical energy, two layers of woven fibres are made into a sandwich, separated by a thin layer of a glass-based insulating material.
Social comparisons based on material goods that are commonplace in affluent societies were non-existent in poorer countries: How could the poor compare their meager possessions and material situations with their peers who also have so little?
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Mr. JONES: And it was based not on material wealth, and it was based on who you were as a person and what you were willing to give up and what you were willing to do, not just for yourself, but for the elders, for the children, for those who come in behind you to make a path easier for them.
On the current scale, that pickiness could lead to at least medicinal uses, such as sorting cells based on their material.
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By now, however, enough research has been done by privately funded scholars that the surgeon general could write a report based on existing material.
Authorities believe Portway was part of a worldwide network of offenders and, in many cases, distributed the material based on the preferences of his contacts.
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Traditionally, he says, surgeons have chosen stents based on their material properties--how springy they are and how easy they are to get into clogged arteries.
What Transphorm is doing is making new kinds of power conversion devices, based on a material called gallium nitride (a substance best known for its use in LED lighting), which it embeds in modules and sells to equipment manufacturers.
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The extruder is designed specifically for use with MakerBot PLA, a new plastic material based on corn, that Bre Pettis claims wont expand when exposed to the heat -- which means it wont contract when it cools, leading to smoother printed objects and less cracking.
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To further ensure accuracy, Census also called upon community-based organizations to translate material for immigrants, she said.
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ClearOhm material is based on metal nano-wires, not a ceramic like ITO.
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The opportunity to pursue advanced education, career growth, entrepreneurial passions and material comfort based on ambition and hard work rather than race, class, or background have not only made the United States a preeminent world power, but a model for nations everywhere and a beacon of hope for generations of people like me.
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The printer detects material type automatically based on the cartridge eliminating the need to change print settings.
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Greene insisted that he had gone forward with a substantial material fraud claim based on the accounting produced by LB Property.
Following that tradition, the brainiacs over at the University of Reading have developed a new nano-material electrode coating based on the cellular structure of plants.
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