Yes, aggregation of smaller loads adds a degree of complexity, but not enough to explain the gorilla-scale size of the gap.
And so by comparing material-size to people-size, are we measuring primary material consumption on the right scale?
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And how far should the client demand a customised solution, tailored to fit its particular needs, or accept a one-size-fits-all answer, which offers greater economies of scale?
Originally launched as a non-profit organization over a decade ago, the organization has ballooned in scale and size since adopting the for-profit model.
One of the ways scientists study the CMB is by subjecting the warm and cold spots in the radiation to a detailed statistical analysis, examining the deviations in temperature as a function of their size on the sky - their angular scale.
Dell said his company's "scale-to-size" servers are proving popular with customers, listing several companies, such as USAToday.com, Exxon-Mobil Corp.
Yet in order for SAP to be successful as a cloud company, it will need look beyond its size and scale but embrace its eco-system of system integrators and service providers.
Conventional CMOS image sensors mount the pixel section and analog logic circuit on top of the same chip, which require numerous constraints when wishing to mount the large-scale circuits such as measures to counter the circuit scale and chip size, measures to suppress noise caused by the layout of the pixel and circuit sections, and optimizing the characteristics of pixels and circuit transistors.
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The Maestro 4220 and 4200 each sport the same size screen and slim 0.7-inch design but scale back on some of the features like live traffic info and voice control.
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But the authors of the new study focus on the significantly larger and delayed events in Prague, which they wrote "necessitate reconsideration of the maximum possible size of injection-induced earthquakes, and of the time scale considered diagnostic of induced seismicity".
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She bought one on Ebay in 1997 and began photographing it against different backdrops, playing with the scale so the doll would look life-size.
By this stacked structure, large-scale circuits can now be mounted keeping small chip size.
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It was only half the size of the other two American manufacturers, and scale was becoming all-important.
The process of land concentration tends to be amplified by large-scale foreign land acquisitions, resulting in growing inequalities in farm size.
Both countries remain besotted with sheer size, though many of the most promising developments in power supply are in small-scale generation.
In the years ahead, mid-size companies will be able to choose whether to become larger to compete on scale, or smaller to compete on speed.
Security camera footage from the aquarium shows the seal making several unsuccessful attempts to scale the barrier fencing, hampered by her sheer size and physical make-up.
"The new E-Series units, which are the first of many large-size VIZIO models, give consumers access to great technology on an even bigger scale, " said Matt McRae, Chief Technology Officer, VIZIO.
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The salvation of the theaters of the former Great White Way was always a promised but ambiguous add-on to the state and city's large-scale redevelopment schemes for the Times Square area, clearly secondary to the size of the real estate deals to be made.
On a smaller scale, Shark Multimedia's new Leopard USB modem is a pocket-size external modem that also operates with any H.324 video phone system.
Given that Citibank's footprint is about one-fifth the size of some other giant banks, analysts said it had little choice but to scale back in areas where it lacks market share.
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With tight budgets, few mid-size firms can afford to take their eye off top-line growth to re-implement business applications that can scale or provide global reach required to meet their objectives.
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In another large-scale art installation, Babis Panagiotidis used 18, 000 recycled computer keys to make a life-size rocking horse.
Shocks are still likely: for instance, the size of the bubble and scale of the bust may overturn historic relationships such as that between unemployment rates and credit-card losses.
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