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It's a terrible thing to spray DDT on cotton fields, but it's a really good thing to use to eliminate millions of cases of death due to malaria in a small village.
Just from a design perspective, we didn't really understand how they did it, and so that's just one small example of the kind of research that we were doing.
And a small indulgence, like eating one scoop of ice cream, is more likely to lead to a food binge in controlled eaters.
When you're done with all that, what you have is a very small percentage of drugs that start the process actually come out the other side.
We see projects which are much beyond any single research team can do, and this is really new for the humanities, which very often take the habit of working in small groups or only with a couple of researchers.
Small actions can make a big difference.
The social order was changing because this lady is part of our Project Shakti that is actually teaching women how to do small business and how to carry the message of nutrition and hygiene.
Small actions, big difference.
There are small actions that can make a big difference.
Now these efforts are small, they're often underfunded, and they face formidable opposition.
Some meditators, without trying to stop it, but simply by being completely open, thinking that that bang is just going to be a small event like a shooting star, they are able not to move at all.
We are taking what we are learning and the technologies we are developing in the large and applying them in the small to create a blended model of education to really reinvent and reimagine what we do in the classroom.
We are taking what we develop and learn in the large and applying it in the small to the classroom, to create a blended model of learning.
It turns out that these sea hares have a small number of very large neurons, which makes them excellent to use in neuroscience research.
Something complicated comprises many small parts, all different, and each of them has its own precise role in the machinery.
And they live in maternity colonies, which means that every spring, the females meet after the winter hibernation, and they stay together for about six months to rear their young, and they all carry a very small chip, which means that every time one of them enters one of these specially equipped bat boxes, we know where she is, and more importantly, we know with whom she is.
The next spring, it didn't form two communities like every year, which may have led the whole colony to die because it had become too small.
What we do is put very small GPS collars on these animals to study how they move together, and what this has to do with their social structure.
But a small percentage of those who experience trauma have persistent problems —sometimes vanishing temporarily only to resurface months later.
With such a small canvas, there are only a few options.
What we really want is for all our rectangles to fall within a small range of area values.
But if we go any lower down the list, the numbers become so small that we’d need a wider range of sizes to cover the canvas, which would increase the score.
This was hitchhiking small satellites alongside much larger satellites.
And a new generation of engineers and scientists, mostly out of universities, began launching these very small, breadbox-sized satellites called CubeSats.
In space, size drives cost, and we had worked with these very small, breadbox-sized satellites in school, but as we began to better understand the laws of physics, we found that the quality of pictures those satellites could take was very limited, because the laws of physics dictate that the best picture you can take through a telescope is a function of the diameter of that telescope, and these satellites had a very small, very constrained volume.
What came next was making the rest of the satellite as small and as simple as possible, basically a flying telescope with four walls and a set of electronics smaller than a phone book that used less power than a 100 watt lightbulb.
A very small amount of money would get us some.
Not only people cross the border here, but entire chunks of one city move to the next, and when these houses are placed on top of these steel frames, they leave the first floor to become the second to be in-filled with more house, with a small business.
But not only houses, also small debris from one city, from San Diego, to Tijuana.
So many stories emerge from these dynamics of alteration of space, such as "the informal Buddha," which tells the story of a small house that saved itself, it did not travel to Mexico, but it was retrofitted in the end into a Buddhist temple, and in so doing, this small house transforms or mutates from a singular dwelling into a small, or a micro, socioeconomic and cultural infrastructure inside a neighborhood.
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