Based on computer modelling, the craft QinetiQ has developed thus far could complete a day-night cycle.
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The finding demonstrates that people have a day-night cycle that must be respected, even when they're doing the demanding work of space exploration.
Altered day-night cycle: the Antarctic winter involves a period of over three months of complete darkness where the sun does not rise above the horizon.
The instrument has established that winds generally blow east-west on the floor of the crater - something of a surprise to researchers who thought the rover's position close to the northern slopes of Gale's big central mountain might drive winds in a prevailing north-west direction as air moved up and down the peak in a day-night cycle.
None of this seems to matter in the 24-hour, 365-day election cycle that we now live in.
Intel, for instance, has consistently had a 90-day production cycle for its chips, which power most PCs.
The skin's normal 30-day shedding cycle speeds up to 3 days, and grotesque plaques of dead skin begin to form.
There is a 40-day cycle for Shia martyrs, with ceremonies held on the third, seventh and 40th days of mourning.
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The shape of our week is religious - the seven-day cycle with a day of rest being one of Judaism's contributions to our society.
The court heard that Moy Park held an environmental permit authorising intensive poultry rearing of up to 200, 500 broiler birds on a 35 to 37-day cycle.
At a hearing on Wednesday, the court heard Moy Park held an environmental permit authorising intensive poultry rearing of up to 156, 200 broiler birds on a 37-day cycle.
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It's unlikely any aliens call Kepler-37b home: it's thought to be rocky, with no atmosphere, and hugs its sun in a 13-day orbit cycle, meaning surface temperature is terribly high.
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But this latest gridlock had the AMA on high alert, because t he federal government had already said it would not hold claims and Medicare carriers were expected today to begin processing payments for physicians services after Dec. 31 under the typical 14-day cycle required by law.
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Instead of a 24-hour cycle, he slipped into a 25-hour day so after 12 days he was completely out of sync with his fellow crew mates.
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To those concerned about emissions, it emphasized that the 400, 000-barrel-a-day refinery, plus an integrated gasification combined cycle plant, could sequester carbon more cheaply than a coal plant.
The young NRC changed dramatically in response to the Three Mile Island incident and the need to make the NRC above the normal politics of the day as the long-term safety of the environment transcends the four-year political cycle.
Yet with one debate of the 2012 election cycle still to come, several memes have already driven the next-day conversation.
But, for example, whereas market-risk models can be tested every day as markets bounce up and down, credit-risk models have to be tested over the economic cycle.
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