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A mania occurs when there is an upward movement of price combined with a willingness to pay large sums of money for something valued much lower in intrinsic value.
One calorie, the kind we measure in food, also called a large calorie, is defined as the amount of energy it would take to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius.
This is the reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European family that includes nearly all languages historically spoken in Europe, as well as large parts of Southern and Western Asia.
You need a powerful heat source to produce such a large geothermal manifestation.
There's still more research to be done to better constrain the problem and better understand the system, but from what the data is telling us now, it looks to be the result of a large hydrothermal system.
And if it was a large predatory species, it might have gone through the coast of Fukushima yesterday.
Every single fishing vessel combined, small and large, across the globe, together produce about 65 million tons of wild-caught seafood for human consumption.
You don't need large tracts of land for it and you don't need to cut down rain forests for it.
Those heads contain impressively large brains, with a brain to body ratio similar to that of other intelligent animals, and a complex nervous system with about as many neurons as that of a dog.
Because this looks exactly the same as a stem cell culture, with large green cells surrounding small, immature cells.
The problem with this map is that its inks and pigments had so degraded over time that this large, nearly seven-foot map, made the world look like a giant desert.
Now, these institutions are like tankers, and working inside of them, I've come to appreciate what large wakes they can leave, and I've become convinced that the institution of the global capital markets, the nearly 290 trillion dollars of stocks and bonds in the world, that that may be one of our most powerful forces for positive social change at our disposal, if we ask it to be.
Oddly enough, those questions have the same general answer: emergence, or the spontaneous creation of sophisticated behaviors and functions from large groups of simple elements.
I've been stared at, screamed at, whispered about, and one time I got smacked in the face by a little old lady's purse that from the looks of the shiner I took home that day I am pretty certain contained at least 70 dollars of rolled up small change and a large hard candy collection.
And with a very large set, the possibilities are almost endless.
While countries by and large agree on one definition of refugee, every host country is responsible for examining all requests for asylum and deciding whether applicants can be granted the status of refugee.
They're one of the reasons we might feel calm after eating a large plate of pasta, or more alert after a protein-rich meal.
It begins with an involuntary spasm or sudden contraction of the diaphragm, the large dome-shaped muscle below our lungs that we use to inhale air.
Outside, there are ten large boxes.
The large number of autonomous, coordinated entities offers a new palette for aesthetic expression.
The fashionable drink was difficult and time consuming to produce on a large scale.
This type of problem, classified as NP-complete, is notoriously difficult when the graph is sufficiently large.
Larger animals, by contrast, are better at fending off predators, and so they have the luxury of time to grow to large sizes and reproduce multiple times during their lives.
Instead of polling large numbers of people with straightforward questions and quantifiable answers, the researchers conducted in-person interviews, sometimes with small groups, engaging them in more open discussions.
Their eggs are soft-shelled, and when their babies hatch, they suckle milk from pores on their mother's body until they're large enough to feed themselves.
That spread began in earnest around the early 1600s when Dutch traders brought tea to Europe in large quantities.
Pointed arches, flying buttresses, and large windows made the structure more skeletal and ornate.
However, it was too large for the airbag design, so another constraint was defined.
How can we land a large rover while still keeping rocket fuel away from the Martian soil?
This method allows scientists to find large axon bundles and see how milder blows might alter them structurally.
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