To compare alien planets, Dr. Mendez at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory and his colleagues are creating an Earth Similarity Index that ranks worlds by their resemblance to our own planet, on a scale from zero to one, based on their mass, radius, density and surface temperature.
The authorities have been forced to push interest rates close to zero in order to give investors a one-way bet.
To change from a one to a zero, the microprocessor sends electrical currents to change the polarity of the top layer.
It takes up to 1 millisecond to write a single one or a zero to flash, and the parts corrode with each stroke.
To change the bit from a one to a zero to write or store new data the microprocessor sends electrical currents through the chip to change the polarity of the top layer.
He saw this latest proposition seemingly breeze through yesterday by a vote of eight-to-zero, with one abstention.
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In June 2011, a huge instance of fraud led to a market crash, with the value of Bitcoins at one point plummeting to almost zero.
Last week the temperature dropped to seven below zero in the Twin Cities, which is one reason many Midwesterners head to Florida or Arizona for the winter.
Her film, Zero Dark Thirty was expected to be one of the biggest films at the Oscars this year.
But ground zero continues to be Germany, and one question keeps coming up: Do Germans want to work hard enough to sustain their wealth?
That culture needs to be one of zero tolerance of corruption.
Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is wrenched from his village and with a crew of companions, but without his wife and child dragged through the jungle by the fearsome Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo) to one of the great Mayan temples.
The Minutemen want only the first half of that, and take victories such as the one in Herndon as evidence that Middle America prefers their zero-tolerance approach to Mr Bush's more nuanced one.
The real issue here is that this notion compels people to think in a one-man show, zero-sum way: I want to win therefore you have to lose.
Almost 50% of black women had zero or negative wealth, according to one study.
Now allow one company to pay zero dollars in corporate taxes.
We then assigned each level of performance a number from zero to 10. (The highest one-tenth in each category received a 10, the second tenth a 9, and so on.) The higher the number, we assumed, the more pain that industry would suffer with respect to that specific variable.
In technology we all think in binary terms, it is either zero or one, so it helps us to make these decisions quickly.
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And if, on top of the bright pulse, a smaller pulse of just the right type is sent, the detector can be forced to record a one or a zero.
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They insist that the party is showing its fiscal rectitude by fighting with the unions over backing public sector pay curbs and pledging a post-election "zero-based" spending review (that is, one which starts from zero rather than starting with asking whether to cut existing budgets).
Device display must be dimmable (in one-percent increments, from zero to 100%) to prevent blinding operators during night time and NVG operations.
One a larger level, we came up with an idea and started to learn fashion industry from zero and we strategized everything as if it was a ordinary for-profit one.
There is no one at Ground Zero properly equipped or authorized to deal with a coordinated, conceptual rebuilding, to set the right priorities and make the right decisions.
And I have not been able to sort of zero in on your position on this one question: Does your plan cover the estimated 12 million or so illegal immigrants in the country?
Based in Enstone, England, the highly skilled Lotus team designs, builds, maintains, tests, and races the Lotus Formula One Team car, which can travel from zero to 60 miles per hour in 1.6 seconds.
Khan, wife of imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his partner in creating the Cordoba House Islamic center on the edges of Ground Zero, has (if this profile is to be believed) one true goal: Islam uber alles.
But in Northern Ireland politics is seen as a zero-sum game: if one side gains, it stands to reason that the other must have lost.
The one decent track, the instrumental Zero Zero is restricted to 1 min 43 seconds when it surely should have been allowed to expand into a sprawling epic.
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