This product is inexpensive and geared towards the micro-small-business market.
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WSJ's Gautam Naik reports these micro-sculptures are small enough to fit inside the eye of a needle.
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Recent modelling studies show that the flux to remote areas of contaminants associated with micro-plastics is small compared with that from oceanic and especially long-distance atmospheric transport processes.
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Other cash-generating businesses on the horizon for publishers include subscription fees and micro-transactions for small pieces of game content sold over online channels like Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
What this means is that investors stand the best chance of participating in this renewed merger and acquisition cycle by investing in small to midsize companies, or micro, small-cap and mid-cap mutual funds run by investment managers with a value approach.
Unlike conventional combined heat and power (CHP) applications, micro-CHP produces relatively small amounts of heat and electricity.
He underwent a routine arthroscopy and micro-fracture to two small areas in his right knee and will be non weight-bearing for six to eight weeks.
While the amount of savings can differ greatly for a renter of a micro-unit versus a small-home owner, cost-effectiveness is definitely part of the equation in both models.
For example, the path breaking work of Muhammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank shows that small micro-credit loans given to women are nearly always paid back and that the funds are used to invest in businesses, that provide funds to educate children and lift families out of poverty.
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It is on the Ponoko blog (which regularly has terrific stuff for makers getting a business started) by Cassandra Glessner at SF Commonality, a San Francisco non-profit that helps small businesses with micro finance, micro-lending programs worth checking out.
On April 27, the State Council announced a number of measures to enhance the fiscal, financial and taxation support for small and micro-sized enterprises in a bid to ensure their sound development.
Not to mention, small- and micro-cap equities, which have been hard hit too.
Between 2001 and 2009, the number of owners of micro and small enterprises and self-employed rose from 20.2 million to 22.9 million.
The president says he wants to stimulate small firms and micro-businesses.
Kennedy's investment strategy is to ride the momentum of usually small- or micro-cap stocks that break to a new significant high and then continue to put in new highs over the next six-week period.
While CDFIs are not technically part of the micro-lending trend, they still provide small businesses with loans.
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But if a fund focused on small-cap or micro-cap stocks were to manage billions of dollars, given the lesser degree of liquidity for these smaller stocks, that would be problematic.
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Terms like small-batch, micro-lot and ultra-premium get tossed around liberally at times, with even the bigger producers trotting out their own versions of small lot, special wines from their massive portfolios.
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Micro-mechanical logic chips could eventually be as small and easy to mass-produce as conventional ones.
It grants the state's micro-distilleries many of the same rights as small wineries--including the right to hold tastings on their premises--which should encourage some ambitious farmers to begin distilling the products of their fields and orchards.
In most cases it takes these bags two years to break down, allowing even small fragments to be consumed by micro-organisms who are able to access the carbon and hydrogen.
Last month, the most exciting news was from UCLA, where a small team of researchers developed a micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitor that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than current batteries.
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The silver cylinder at the top is actually a small power generating device that converts micro-vibrations into usable energy, so stick one of these on, say, a ventilation duct and you should just about get enough juice to power a calculator or even an LED.
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The chance of a peaceful settlement in either Rwanda or Burundi, the two micro-states at the heart of the region, is small.
Ordinary rotors do not work on such a small scale, so Friend's micro-robot project has a special flagellated propeller, mimicking the swimming behaviour of E.coli bacteria.
One of the landers contained a small reactor designed to encourage the growth of micro-organisms.
The sensor itself is a strip of plastic filled with flexible sensors connected to a small microcontroller module with three indicator LEDs and a micro-USB port.
In Africa, the corporate citizenship programs for companies like Shell, De Beers and Monsanto consist mostly of small-scale social projects like health clinics or micro-credit schemes.
In another view, a system of micro-tasking rather than a full-time job means that it is too small a scale to really price out the cost of these benefits on a per task level.
Why, he asks, can a woman in Bangladesh get a micro-loan more readily than the average frontline employee at a global 1000 company can get a small amount of money for something experimental?
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