Construction costs are rising not just for luxury properties, but also for mass market properties.

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Using a combination of electrophoresis (which sorts proteins according to their size and electrical properties) and mass spectrometry (which sorts fragments of those proteins according to their weight), she was able to do just that.

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We believe the company has established a critical mass in the market with its properties and resorts and that has helped it take market share away from its competitors such as Wynn Resorts.

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Competition is driving up prices, since sports, along with news, are now essentially the only DVR-proof programming and networks are desperate for the few properties that can still attract mass audiences.

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David Hegarty, president of Senior Housing Properties Trust, a real-estate investment trust based in Newton, Mass.

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He studies the material properties of tissue and organs from animals and cadavers to assign shape, size, density, mass and ten or more coefficients that describe how each cube of virtual flesh will deform when confronted with a given force from a given direction.

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