For anyone trying to slim down, a body-fat test is a better way to monitor progress than the scale is. |
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Perhaps because the original inspiration for the silhouettes lies in book-size illustrations, the modest scale suits these works perfectly. |
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Diagnosis therefore relies on mycological analysis of scalp scale and broken off infected hairs. |
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If not an error on the same scale as Ballantyne's famous unhusked coconuts, the translucent Pacific water is clearly a high-order inaccuracy. |
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Nationals are taxed on a sliding scale with a maximum taxable rate of 25 per cent. |
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While operatic in scale, everything in Anderson's screenplay has a natural ebb and flow to it. |
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Such equine luxury did not reach down the scale to farms and smallholdings, whose buildings are familiar from George Morland's paintings. |
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Much of these vegetal forms were cast in iron or blown into glass moulds on an industrial scale. |
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Secondly they provided a conduit through which investment on a hitherto unprecedented scale could be mobilized. |
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As you go higher up the scale you narrow and decrease the scope of your knowledge until you know an enormous amount about very little. |
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In 1975, Ireland had a sliding scale scheme for tax and royalties on oil and gas discovered in Irish waters. |
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He believes what's needed is a sliding scale of road pricing with charges varying according to journey times. |
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The rate applies on a sliding scale and ranges from 7.65 per cent to 34 per cent. |
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Transfer tax is imposed on a sliding scale for private transfers and usually works out at 7.5 per cent. |
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It charges corporate income tax on a sliding scale, dependent upon a company's in-state sales. |
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A unidimensional scale or a single dimension of a multidimensional scale should consist of a set of items that correlate well with each other. |
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Each item is rated on a 5-point scale, and responses are summed to produce a total self-esteem score. |
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Given the ungraciousness of this approach, the response from Sargent was on the lower end of the nuclear scale. |
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The ungraspable scale of war's toll is depicted through the struggle of one 15-year-old girl. |
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She suggested that we scale the cliff in the regular way using mountain-climbing equipment. |
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The idea represents a global twist on what media companies have been doing on a national scale for several decades. |
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After a day of silence, the sounds outside descend upon the ears in a symphonic scale. |
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However, the figures are still dwarfed by the huge scale of the problem of urban dereliction and blight in the area. |
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The scale indicates the degree to which respondents feel that the world and the people in it are evil or sinful. |
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It also promised economies of scale that would render marsh mining of ulexite obsolete. |
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Similar setups are used on a much larger scale for ultrasound cleaning in industry. |
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Trees, including copper beech and mountain ash, are planted around the lawn area at the base of the garden to give a sense of scale. |
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Although rare, hurricane-caused blowdowns of this scale are not unprecedented in the Coweeta Basin. |
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Similarly if the box becomes lighter then the spring will lift the box up and the pointer will move up the scale. |
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The old scale was analog, with a dial and a pointer that waggled a bit unless you stood perfectly still. |
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The expanding diaphragm moves the pointer across a scale calibrated in feet above sea level. |
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The craftspeople construct everything in small scale and the houses range in size up to palaces which can cost as much as a full-sized house. |
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In May of 1985, Simpson and his partner Simon Yates set out to scale the west face of Siula Grande, a hitherto unclimbed peak in Peru. |
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The blue shift was discernible on scales of 100 million light-years, or roughly one-hundredth the scale of previous studies. |
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The scale of this gross error should compel a return to genuine multilateralism. |
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We have seen multinationals scale back their operations here over the past months. |
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I think that it's important to start by underlining the important distinction between practice at the society scale and at the individual scale. |
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There have been numerous reports of multiple voting on a large scale in the country. |
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He made a mechanical device, Gunter's scale, to multiply numbers based on the logs using a single scale and a pair of dividers. |
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The log scale exposure index was treated as a continuous variable in multivariate analyses. |
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If there is to be an economy of scale we'd like an undertaking that the university will make sure there are going to be no compulsory job losses. |
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Double slashes indicate a large unanalyzed region out of scale with the numbering. |
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We scored shield color by reference to the Munsell color scale that breaks color into three orthogonal measures of hue, value, and intensity. |
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The scale of his boldness as he forced unification on Germany was outside the thinking of 19th-century British cabinets. |
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The design plans have been slated and the size and scale of the entire undertaking must be totally rethought. |
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A flagging enterprise may survive and prosper as a bolt-on acquisition or benefit from the economies of scale in a larger grouping. |
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Steel whined, then glanced from the shoulder of his scale mail with a sledgehammer impact, but his enemy had forgotten how tall his opponent was. |
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But there is an exit charge based on a sliding scale of five per cent in year one down to zero in year six. |
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It's a sliding scale which varies according to the individual's level of trust in God. |
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Maybe an insurance premium based on a sliding scale of item value, which could be refunded if the transaction is successful would be best. |
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The new BIK rules will operate on a sliding scale from 30 per cent to 6 per cent. |
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There are few posts that plummet down to the infantile depths of the scale and few that stretch upwards towards unintelligibility. |
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Although the severity and scale of the crisis was unusual, such problems are not unique. |
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In many industries, economies of scale are available to firms, so that as they grow bigger, their unit costs fall. |
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Unfortunately, Universal Time is not a uniform time scale because Earth's rotational period is gradually decreasing. |
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It looks similar to the CD-ROM on the left, but the scale is in nanometers instead of micrometers. |
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Conversely, something that initially seems a small and minor incident you might want to ratchet up the scale. |
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The team from the physics department are experts in nanotechnology, which involves engineering on a microscopic scale. |
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Living wage advocates are stepping up a campaign to ensure the benefits of prosperity extend to those at the bottom end of the income scale. |
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Ambition, a determination to scale some height, seems to have been at the bottom of Disraeli's character. |
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She feels at the moment there is no way to express support on a national scale. |
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Not merely a gargantuan egotist with boundless artistic ambition, he was a prankster on a grand scale. |
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There is a need to counter the pervasive naturalization of the global as the economically optimal scale of market forces. |
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As might reasonably be expected, the manual BOURDONS are made of a much smaller scale than those introduced in the Pedal Organ. |
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The scale for the Bourdon pipes is the same as the Soubasse pipes except two notes smaller. |
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Due to a skewed distribution of the summed scale, the natural logarithm was used in the analysis. |
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Yet all will come to naught without international political, administrative and financial support on an unprecedented scale. |
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Such commerce on the national scale was made possible by China's system of navigable waterways, partly natural and partly man-made. |
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All the woodwork on the bowsaw is straight forward, and as he says, scale up or down to suit your needs. |
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The Snellen scale tests distance visual acuity and is only one of the tests done to assess eyesight. |
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The values represented here are estimates of how the child would have scored on the Snellen scale. |
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Yet another animal has been added to the list of those abused on a nearly unimaginable scale. |
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Considering the scale of the problem, this agreement was not nearly enough. |
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For example, a Likert scale is entirely unsuitable for asking factual questions about behaviour. |
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Subjects rate agreement with statements on a Likert scale, and responses for each item are summed to arrive at a total score. |
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A recent study by the Aid agency Care illustrates the scale of the West's neglect. |
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A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side. |
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At every scale, organizations were vested with the power to prevent smaller scales from forming and thus distributing power. |
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Child labour can be eradicated only by social engineering on a major scale combined with national economic growth. |
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The biggest change had occurred at the bottom of the socio-economic scale, where there had been a significant improvement. |
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The second motivic element announced in these opening bars is a quick upward scale. |
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The scale of destruction is unthinkable, and the horror is unspeakable. |
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One technical innovation is Saga's fish scale technique which uses different fur types such as silver fox with mink to create a lightness of texture with pattern. |
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The spring show will build on this success by kicking off the trade season with an entire slate of new records for number of buyers, exhibitors, scale, and selection. |
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The sense of unreadability derives not just from the urban layout, or from the fact that I am foreign, but from the sheer scale and speed of redevelopment. |
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I say a small scale, because an overpowering majority of the public has never heard of him. |
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The nuclear interaction in muonic molecules can be treated as a perturbation using the smallness of the nuclear scattering amplitude in comparison with the molecular scale. |
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You get a sense of the scale of the city as you speed down rivers that curve forever, flanked by electrical towers, bleak apartment buildings and factories. |
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It also prepared the ground for war on a hitherto unimagined scale. |
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The oldest of the Emanuels doesn't come up light on the wonk scale either, holding both an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard. |
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The story they have told is of abuse on a hitherto unimagined scale. |
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In the event of a serious accident, the scale of absolute and unlimited liability would be uninsurable and quickly bankrupt even the largest utility company. |
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This money could be used as a government match, on a sliding scale, to encourage all Americans to set up private accounts. |
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The scale, opulence and fantasy so prevalent a few miles away on the Strip is nowhere to be found. |
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The entire operation was accomplished by turning a handwheel until the pointer indicated the desired angle on the graduated scale on the pedestal. |
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The Boxing Day tsunami and the Sumatran earthquake on March 28, which registered 9 on the Richter scale, have made the world conscious of these massive upheavals of the Earth. |
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Orangutan offspring stay with their mothers until they're seven or eight years old, but orangutans are on the lower end of the sociability scale among great apes. |
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At a larger scale the deep plan was followed through in the designs for St Patrick's, Kilsyth, and most monumentally at St Bride's, East Kilbride. |
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Jackson has successfully realised the most monumental movie-making feat in recent memory, yet the scale of his achievement seems undervalued and unrewarded. |
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The large area involved and the grand scale of the weather within monsoon climates suggest that monsoons play a significant role in the management of the global climate. |
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If you plot the pressure of an enclosed gas on a vertical axis against its temperature on the horizontal scale, you get a straight line slanting upward to the right. |
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The scale of the event boggles the mind and is a measure of the man's imagination and the cast circles of high-rolling friends who answered his invitation. |
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Lying on such a scale has a definite impact on the body politic. |
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But there was a wrinkle, meant to distinguish between people at different levels of the income scale. |
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Maximum economies of scale mean the essential goods are uncorrelated. |
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How we use technology to overcome the tyranny of distance and our small scale could define New Zealand and our place in the world in the 21st Century. |
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However, they may still charge a sliding scale early encashment penalty. |
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Relying too much on markets for either input supplies or sales outlets places the low unit cost of production that comes with economies of scale at risk. |
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For private sales a transfer tax is imposed on a sliding scale. |
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Capital gains tax is paid on a sliding scale up to 33 per cent. |
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The Chamber and AFL-CIO agreed to a wage scale that would pay foreigners the greater of actual or prevailing wages. |
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Which I did not know about, as the next scale map I had was of South East England, where the M25 is six inches across, and London is a mass of unlabelled green roads. |
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Will drunk college students attempt to scale the seven metre structure? |
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Injuries are scored with the 1990 revision of the abbreviated injury scale, and all scoring is checked centrally to ensure accuracy and consistency. |
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By combining resources and employing the flexibility of a blind pool, we achieved geographic and product type diversity on a scale that would otherwise be out of reach. |
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There was a great cross-section of people there from across the socio-economic scale and all walks of life. |
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Each of the 12 units qualifies for double rent allowance and rates remission on a sliding scale. |
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There are no entry charges, and exit charges are applied on a sliding scale from 5 per cent of the fund value in year one to zero per cent in year six. |
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It was the Romans who first utilized the technique of blowing glass on a widespread scale and they perfected other facets of glass technology to a high degree. |
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Entry charges have been dropped in favour of exit penalties, which are applied on a sliding scale from 5 per cent in year one down to zero in year five. |
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Death and destruction on a scale unmatched in all recorded history. |
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As we approach dimensions of one billionth of a metre the nanometre scale it is now appropriate to talk about nanoelectronics rather than microelectronics. |
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He proposed that the system be made solvent by reducing benefits on a sliding scale, according to income. |
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I mean, wow, the true scale of the AIPAGT didn't hit me until I unpacked my suitcase for the final time last week and fished the final Trophy from my luggage. |
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Use in summer to control aphids, pear psylla, scale insects, mites, and eggs of some insects. |
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Distributed networking off-loads and decentralizes demand on central servers resulting in dramatic cost reductions and solving scale limitations. |
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After dissolution of sulfate, the solution was poured into a volumetric flask and diluted to the scale. |
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After advancing through the preceding technical preparation, Long takes the student into her approach to diatonic scale playing. |
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For what it's worth the two outer rows are tuned to the diatonic scale and the semitones are in the middle row. |
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Musical works consist of only seven notes on a diatonic scale and a limited number of rhythms. |
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A sliding scale made it more difficult for a company to be termed high pay if its performance was at or above its peer group. |
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Based on our results we developed the sliding scale in exhibit 4, above, which can be viewed as a possible quantitative guideline. |
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The scale factor is normally computed automatically or can be adjusted manually. |
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Through the completed project, a process has been developed in laboratory scale for production of Low Phosphorus Steel in Induction Furnace. |
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No one said Washington scored high on the originality scale. |
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TunePad uses a pentatonic scale of notes to make sure any combination of sounds will still create a pleasant tune. |
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At Central Florida, researchers examined short-term learning effects with novice players assigned to learn the A Minor pentatonic scale. |
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The tonal vocabulary of the timang in the musical transcription consists of five tones forming a pentatonic scale. |
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The different notes will create a harmonic droning noise from across the pentatonic scale. |
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While it is true that the pentatonic scale is made up of any five successive pitches in the circle of fifths, this is quite an analytical leap. |
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There are several extensive regional structures including large scale dilatant structures which formed the pathways for mineralising fluids. |
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Four hundred pounds on curtains, going right down the scale to pounds 2 for a pyrex bowl and pounds 4 on salt and pepper shakers. |
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Two independent, doctorally prepared experts in scale development recommended the number of response options for survey items. |
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Jalapefios fall into the 3,500-5,000 range of this scale, while habaneros rate 100,000 and higher. |
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The number of computational grid cells required to discretize down to this length scale was prohibitive. |
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You have got to make the best fit without the numbers, more generalism, less specialism, economies of scale. |
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Diseconomies of scale refer to the increased per unit cost with an increase in output. |
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Diseconomies of scale occur when the percentage increase in a company's operations result in lower percentage increase in a company's output. |
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Testing with Spirent allows enterprises to identify, test, and analyze the performance of physical and virtual network elements at 40 GbE scale. |
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Chronic plaque psoriasis, the most common form of psoriasis, is a papulosquamous disease defined by erythematous plaques with a silvery scale. |
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If the primary pathologists were graded using the cytotechnologist grading scale, there would have been fewer pathologist failures. |
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In addition, the Witte packer may be mounted directly to a scale platform to combine weighing and densifying in a single unit. |
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Bearden also had the collages photographed and blown up large scale in black and white on Photostat paper. |
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Currently, the photosynthetic power cell exists on a small scale, and consists of an anode, cathode and proton exchange membrane. |
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Cellana's patented ALDUO system enables economic, sustainable and consistent production of photosynthetic, non-GMO algae at industrial scale. |
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Installation of a single micro scale wind turbine, Field West Of Parrock Nook Farm, Long Causeway, Rishworth. |
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The color, aroma, flavor, springiness, juiciness, and overall acceptability were evaluated using a 9-point scale. |
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Harrison Ford stars as a cop hunting android fugitives through a future city both awe-inspiring in its scale and grubbily lived-in. |
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From the Greek gongylos, round, and lepis, scale, in reference to the rounded phyllary apices. |
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It is measured on a scale of zero to 100, and the higher the PDB, the more a person accepts disparity and expects power inequality. |
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Chapter 3 is also organized like Chapter 1, but uses the blues scale and dominant seventh chords. |
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He is also the first Indian to summit Mt Vinson Massif, the tallest peak in Antarctica and the first person from Andhra Pradesh to scale the Everest. |
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The matching range on the red-green mixture scale is highly correlated with the peak wavelength separation of the two expressed photopigments determined by genetic analysis. |
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The NEMA 4X panel houses core electronics, and is remotely located from the scale to prevent any possibility of water infiltration during wash-down. |
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Even with this finding of a mild diseconomy of scale in the provision of total environmental services, the possibility of financial savings in other areas exists. |
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Other pests include gypsy moth caterpillars, gall midge, and scale. |
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It enables companies to personalize their communications on a massive scale, and that has the power to turn indifferent customers into loyal and profitable customers. |
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At the other end of the scale, Marks and Spencer seems to have changed the rules with its mini kiwi, which has the shape, colour and size of a green olive. |
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The piece initially has a dodecaphonic feel, although the pattern here is usually to hear 10 notes of the chromatic scale before a note is repeated. |
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Officers say this operation won't be on the same scale but have moved to reassure fans that measures are in place to ensure it passes off without incident. |
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A waste product from this process is crude glycerol, which is formed on a large scale and contains many impurities that make it costly to purify and re-use in other areas. |
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Oxidoreductases are a class of enzymes with a very high potential for preparative organic synthesis, which is why they are increasingly used also on industrial scale. |
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Vermiculture on a small scale is another way to bring the children into seeing how food waste can feed a small colony of worms, which provide excellent fertilizer for gardens. |
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The piece, written in F-sharp major, utilizes the black-key pentatonic scale and the aid of brackets in the music indicates two-and-three-black key groupings. |
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They operate in what is clearly the lower pentachord of the G minor scale. |
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In Australia, VSG, confident that the bioreactors will turn a profit in due course, plans to scale up the system once the onsite assessments are completed. |
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Indeed, if we have initially a small rectangular patch of tracer, smaller than the characteristic scale of the flow so that the rectangle will evolve into a parallelepiped. |
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Having said all that, I have to admit that in my lifetime of having met a rather broad socioeconomic scale of humanity, I have encountered few true goldbrickers. |
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With the proven success of our PASCAL Photocoagulator in retina, we have clearly demonstrated our ability to transform therapeutic practice on a global scale. |
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The residential Inspired exterior design uses a variety of economic materials to help reduce the scale of the building and deinstitutionalize the overall feel of the facility. |
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Skin improvement was assessed by blinded investigators according to the Dover classification scale for photoaging and with noninvasive diagnostic techniques. |
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It requires learning not only the music, which uses many different modes, rather than the familiar diatonic scale, but also learning the Russian pronunciation of the text. |
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Although spatial scale is known to be important to understand community structure, current knowledge on spatial variation of functional and phylogenetic diversity is limited. |
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In some drawings, too, the view is panoramically wide, covering miles both horizontally and vertically, a dwarfing of human scale reinforced by the works' size. |
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The dilation performed for each scale is now achieved by a decimator. |
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High-density deposits from particular episodes of dehusking and charring suggest further that processing took place on a small scale, probably by individual households. |
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So, on the macro scale, why do we seem to spend so much of our time trying to disinvent, rather than integrate, the one thing that enables us to do this? |
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