Depending on its initial mass, it might collapse to a compact hot star known as a white dwarf (when the star's mass is less than 1.4 times the mass of our sun) or to a neutron star (for stars 1.4 to about three times the mass of our sun) or to a black hole (for stars more massive than three times the mass of our sun).
The craft is still in the developmental stages, though Korean officials claim it'll be ready for primetime in March 2012, with mass production less than three years away.
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In the future, there will be less mass marketing, mass media and mass distribution.
Mass modification is less labour-intensive and thus, for an industry with wafer-thin margins, more appealing.
New concepts like the iPhone have moved from the drawing board to successful mass production in less than five years.
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But there's another promising technology that is reaching critical mass: film-less photography.
Because many of the thin diabetes patients included in the new study were elderly, they likely had less muscle mass and more fat.
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Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.
It is a constant battle for engineers to tweak systems to get them to use up less volume and mass.
De Alwis stressed, however, that Singapore was moving toward customizing its attractions to the individual tourist, with less emphasis on mass appeal.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com, points out that export-related manufacturing, in particular, is highly productive and therefore less prone to mass hiring.
While Xerox likes to speak of its judo strategy, its approach to the mass market for printers could less charitably be described as a catch- up strategy.
Unlike TV advertising, which is, more or less, a mass medium, and provides minimal feedback on how it actually performs, addressable advertising can provide marketers with targeting that is better attuned to individual households.
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Expect the market this year to segment itself between performance-minded tablets and smartphones powered by dual-core ARM chips based around the 1 GHz Cortex A9-MPCore, and less-expensive mass-market offerings running single-core versions of the A9.
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With QPID, an anesthesiologist or a nurse at Mass General can pull in less than two minutes, says Zalis, key information, such as allergies, heart problems, and medications that could be buried in a report or a lab panel.
The sophisticated sensing system measures just 13.5- x 8.5- x 7.5-inches and weighs in at 22-pounds, which is around 30 times less than conventional mass spectrometers, and aside from its ability to be completely portable via battery power, it still sports the same sniffing capabilities as its mammoth-sized siblings.
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Yet there are grounds for believing that, this time round, threats of mass strikes and demonstrations may be less menacing than they proved in 1995.
The post-cold-war world differs from the disciplined bipolar world of the years between 1945 and 1989 because, among other things, it contains quite a lot of countries which may be able to lay their hands on weapons of mass destruction and whose rulers may be less carefully calculating than a Nikita Khrushchev or a Leonid Brezhnev.
But in an age of mass communications, the threats to linguistic diversity are less draconian and more spontaneous.
The visible matter in the universe (stars) adds up to less than 5 percent of the total mass that is known to exist from many other observations.
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They did not merge with you, or give you any cell membranes or nutrients just an infinitesimally small packet of DNA, less than one-millionth of your mass.
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AIDS. The likelihood that a mutant protein can slip through unnoticed is small: the spectrometer can tell apart proteins that differ by less than a tenth of a proton mass in weight.
This week, Israel passed a law banning models from advertisements or fashion shows if they measure less than 18.5 on the body mass index (BMI).
The mixture the team achieved leaves the combined mass of lignin and cellulose in the trunk more or less unchanged and, contrary to the expectations of many critics, the resulting trees are as strong as unmodified ones.
Mass media conditioning has made nonconformity or eccentricity more glaring and thus less likely to flourish or take root in the first place.
Without more explicit (and testable) details, it is always possible that these benefits would be generated anyway in society, perhaps by religious organizations or the mass media, or that they could be delivered more economically by less fashionable methods, such as reinstituting the draft or spending more money on the police.
The paper-less office and the cash-less society have long been held up as desirable outcomes of mass computerization.
The town of Concord, Mass. earlier this year banned the sale of water bottles that are less than a liter.
Though Dell is still aiming for a mass-market hit, uptake among these groups could make the Streak less dependent on popular support.
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Using their least conservative assumptions, the researchers found that less than 2% of the globular clusters should contain intermediate mass black holes today.
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