The latest findings raise interesting questions about what the upper limits on size might be.
The conductivity of carbon nanotubes, by contrast, depends critically on size, shape and twistiness.
One is that globalisation and competition from Asia (especially China) have put a bigger premium on size.
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By urging airlines to limit carry-on items to one per passenger, and by actually enforcing carry-on size and weight restrictions.
Isentropic says its system has an efficiency of 72-80%, depending on size.
But the results are disappointing: judged on size, uniformity and muscle mass, her beasts do not even make the top three places.
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Second, globalisation puts more of a premium on size than ever before.
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Anyway, even though Samuell is classed with the other biggest schools in its area based on size, mass numbers does not equal athletic quality.
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These tax credits will be based on size and average wages, so that small businesses can provide health care without destroying their bottom line.
Arguably, the approach of the Rosneft auction, and with it the need for cash, has been the main factor behind the new emphasis on size among oil firms.
The Asian crisis of the late 1990s shattered elements of the Asian growth model, which had relied on size for its own sake, and put the money generated by rising productivity into the hands of consumers.
Yet despite some talk about the need for a new Glass-Steagall act to separate retail and investment banking, and for higher capital charges based on size, the idea of breaking up institutions does not have great momentum.
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The story then was bodybuilding in California, American football's premium on size and, as we now know, East Germany's producing at its height perhaps 30, 000 athletes on steroids and winning Olympic medals per hit 600 times as often as Americans.
"We are allowing a limited number of vessels based on size" to attempt to pass, said New Orleans-based Coast Guard spokesman Ryan Tippets, adding that the closure was affecting 97 vessels Monday afternoon and was halting both northbound and southbound traffic.
Apple, the company that was the first to bring touch screen phones and tablets to mass market, has been iterating rather innovating in recent years, for example making relatively incremental changes on size and form factor with the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini.
Under the committee's recommendations, there would be tougher limits on the size of the "payroll vote", junior ministers would no longer be entitled to a Commons aide and there would be an end to the appointment of unpaid ministers to circumvent legal limits on the size of government.
In an "Immersion Lab" a few floors above the Business Sphere, employees test out working across time zones on wall-size video screens, and projecting business and social network information on man-size "holopanes" of glass.
In her book, published by Hyperion, she also talks about the uncomfortable fit of the Republican party, sort of like a size 0 Calvin Klein on a size 8.
Specifically, to what extent can the quality of service on second and subsequent visits be expected to vary based on the size of the tip on the first visit?
In any case, as Alastair Ryan of UBS points out, the impact on banks of a collapse would depend not only on the size of exposures, but also on the quality of collateral, the solidity of the counterparties with whom hedges have been taken out, and whether local money had been used to fund loans.
Only an eye-witness can give an account of the sudden effect which currency reform had on the size of stocks and the wealth of goods on display.
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Haefner says that the decision to do so depends on the size and culture of the company and the terms on which you and your colleague have parted ways.
And the size of the fee each bank owes will be based on its size and exposure to debt, so that we are recovering tax dollars while promoting reform of the banking practices that contributed to this crisis.
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It would just be nice to have some solid empirical evidence on the size and direction of these effects before taking a final stand on the issue.
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Caps on section size may be more arbitrary than evidence-based (at least for section sizes up to 30 based on courses in our sample).
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Researchers could predict what people would do based on the size of the increases.
Also the reviewers have to be categorized based on the size of the organization they represent.
Depending on the size of the training panel, Ulster stand to lose up to nine players.
Apple, Nokia, Palm and RIM mostly stayed the course on screen size in 2010.
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