Kaufman's book is a marvel of concision, with a handy color-coding system (red for "medium-size land birds") and a one-page index on the back page.
The small size of the red dwarf stars, typically with spectral types K and M, gives a greater relative drop in brightness when low-mass planets pass in front of them, making it easier to search for planets around them.
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The trust said the size of Quinag's red deer population was too large and having a damaging impact on woods at Ardvar and Loch a'Mhuilinn.
The area involved -- off the coast of Somalia and Kenya as well as the Gulf of Aden -- equals more than 1.1 million square miles, roughly four times the size of Texas, or the size of the Mediterranean and Red Sea combined.
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It's probably mostly its tiny size -- and the fire engine red probably doesn't help its case much in that respect, either.
But before partaking of the deep-green elixirs, guests are offered tea sweets known as wagashi: beautiful, bite-size confections made with ingredients ranging from red bean paste to green tea itself.
This is a phantom hound the size of a calf, with eyes that burn red in the night.
Biodiversity officer Mark Iley said that a fallow deer was the most likely in terms of population size in Essex but it could have been a red deer, which are rare in the county.
The bravest order is, as it happens, the most flavorful: a chopped salad of dime-size coins of chilled, braised octopus with chives and red peppers.
It was a national treasure, with a golden pagoda-style roof the size of a football field supported by a forest of red pillars each more than three metres around.
Using sonar, infra-red or vision systems, suppliers are developing ways to detect the size of the passenger in the front seat and to measure how far back they are sitting.
The infra-red radiation emitted by the dust can also be used to measure the size of the ring directly, and this has been done using the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Even though the sample card was half of the size of an actual Social Security card, was written in red, and had Specimen written in bold (see above), many people mistakenly thought it was their own Social Security number.
It's pretty, about the size and shape of an egg, but a deep purplish, red color with a subtle, fruity smell, almost like a plum.
We're not huge fans of the red drop-down panel that you swipe to bring up the app, but you can minimize its size and adjust its position on the top of the home screen.
Underlying these whimsical touches is a seriousness of purpose that one encounters in small start-ups but only rarely in companies the size of YouTube (more than seven hundred employees and growing fast, to judge by all the red balloons).
In the OpenStack space companies like Mirantis, Piston Cloud, CloudScaling, Nebula and even IBM, Canonical and Red Hat are begining to benefit from this new consultant centric view of IT rather then the more traditional one size fits all approach of data center software popularized by VMware.
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