Span of life is the scarcity that will govern human interactions and consumer businesses.
We no longer have to confine the life span of the LED to the life span of the converter.
But bacteria and viruses breed fast, so natural selection has time, within the span of a human life, to make a difference.
Countries are judged in ten categories that span the life of an enterprise, from its launching, to coping with licenses, obtaining credit, paying taxes, enforcing contracts and dealing with bankruptcy or dissolution of the entity.
In mammals, this kind of epigenetic modification has been assumed to last only during the life span of a particular animal, because such changes are usually erased in the sperm and egg cells.
The lack of diversity was upsetting, he said, as was the short life span of the trees.
Software companies large and small make these kinds of judgments on a daily basis during both the development process and the life span of a deployed product.
OLEDs were also limited by the life span of organic materials that transferred light.
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Mind you, the life span of these GSPs can be as short as a month or two.
"The fundamental question is whether this treatment is actually going to extend the life span of these kids, " Kieran said.
All this activity occurs early in the life span of a galaxy, before it settles down into a quiet middle age.
Also, all the keys will in fact be OLED with an expected life span of only 5 years, depending upon use of course.
There is a high mortality rate -- with an average life span of only 47 -- minimal infrastructure and limited tools for economic development.
For example historically materials used in blue OLEDs had a life span of 14, 000 hours to half original brightness, compared to 40, 000 hours for traditional LEDs.
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Cockatoos have an average life span of 40 to 70 years, although it is not unheard for some cockatoos to make it to the ripe old age of 80.
Sceptics point out that if big cats have been surviving, and breeding, in the wild for all this time, they only have a natural life span of some 20 years.
The new requirements will involve intricate details on the banks where the accounts are held, the life span of the accounts, and even the extent of communications between the taxpayer and the bank.
The new regulations have doubled the life span of a Formula One engine in an attempt to cut costs and reduce speeds, forcing teams to use the same ones for two successive races.
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Perkol-Finkel, a marine biologist, modified the composition, texture, and design of concrete so that it fosters growth of native flora and fauna while increasing the operational life span and stability of the concrete structure.
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Panasonic's company wide commitment to sustainability and producing products that are ecologically sound is evidenced in the 100, 000 hour life span of the Plasma Display panel and the lack of lead or mercury in the panels.
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It would also extend the life span of import restrictions to ten years from five and grant the President the power to impose emergency restrictions on the importation of cultural artifacts from any country in the world, like Afghanistan, not just Unesco-convention parties.
It would also extend the life span of import restrictions to ten years from five and grant the President the power to impose emergency restrictions on the importation of cultural artifacts from any country in the world, like Afghanistan, not just Unesco convention parties.
These costs are for the entire life-span of the units, after running them to death.
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ICO's ten satellites fly about 9, 000 kilometres higher in medium-earth orbit and have a life-span of 12 years.
Environmental campaigners have lost a legal battle to limit the life-span of a landfill site near their homes in Wrexham.
"Apo E is one of those genes that we suspect controls life span because it affects people's susceptibility to diseases of aging, " says Jan Vigh, a molecular geneticist at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
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At the moment, genetics accounts for about 15% of what determines life span.
It is true: many beneficial new therapies have extended the average life span and have driven a lot of the rise in costs.
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These patients have a 25 times greater risk of kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes and blindness, and have an average of 15 years sliced off their life span.
Scientists have long speculated that the key to a person's "natural" life span lies in so-called diseases of aging, those that emerge only as the body begins to wear out.
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