In 1931 American chemical engineer Samuel Kistler invented the lightest known solid--an aerogel--by drying a form of silicon dioxide (a raw material for glass) under intense pressure and high temperature.
Basic rooms are 250 square feet (23 square meters) with what the designers call a raw, industrial-chic aesthetic that includes 12-foot (3.6-meter) concrete ceilings and distressed hardwood floors.
This is a very fast camera in every respect (bar an occasional lag writing RAW files to memory) with a tack-sharp, super-fast lens, pleasingly fast autofocus, a great, bright screen, and rock-solid feeling controls that are right where your fingers need them to be.
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The Yuki-tsumugi technique is employed to produce pongee silk (also called raw silk) - a light and warm material with a characteristic stiffness and softness, traditionally used to make kimonos.
Just as companies take raw materials and refine them into products, so (increasingly) do they also take raw information and add value from a chain of five activities: information gathering, organising, selecting, synthesising and distributing.
Certain raw materials like grains ( NYSE:JJG ) have a somewhat fixed level of supply and no attempt to increase that supply, such as fertilizer improvements through companies like Monsanto ( NYSE:MON) have been developed to meet that supply.
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Using Aperture I edited a 43.6-megabyte, RAW (unprocessed) image with instant results.
Raw whale-meat bacon (a.k.a. blubber) was white, hard to swallow and tasted like pork fat injected with cod-liver oil.
McCoy mouse cell lines express a polytropic MLV (9) and the RAW cell line was initially transformed by Abelson MLV.
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The steel mill he bought in 1989 was part of Ford's great River Rouge plant, where the father of mass-produced cars turned raw materials into vehicles on a single site (see box, opposite).
Americans aren't feeling higher prices in the form of inflation yet (raw commodities are a small proportion of final food and product costs), but shipping methods are changing.
Esca is known for its fresh fish, particularly its crudo (Italian-style raw fish), and Pasternack was the subject of a fawning 2005 profile in The New Yorker.
Though both pack 4K CMOS imagers, there are some major differences -- the higher-end PMW-F55 has a global shutter, wider color gamut and can capture 4k, 2k or HD video internally, while the PMW-F5 records 2k and HD natively with a rolling shutter (4k requires an optional RAW recorder, as discussed below).
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The first time I went backpacking, I feasted on semi-raw hot dogs cooked over a driftwood fire (we'd forgotten to bring the stove) and sipped tea laced with ashes as chilly Northern California winds blew the fog in.
In the past nine months, OK Cupid has sold its raw data (redacted or made anonymous to protect the privacy of its customers) to half a dozen academics.
The twist here is that only Android fans with small hands and no need for raw processing power need apply, as there's only a Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 chipset (MSM7225) and 512MB RAM running the magic behind the show.
Today's Sony PS3 unveiling has opened up a world of questions regarding how Microsoft expects to maintain a competitive edge against a system that will supposedly have more than double the raw processing power, a next-gen media drive (Blu-ray, in this case), two-generation backwards compatibility, and even support for 1080p hi-def.
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These work by binding chemically to that enzyme's active site to inhibit its action. (Protease cuts the raw chain of virus protein produced by a subverted cell into functional molecules.) However, the mechanism is not quite identical.
As Apple is using the reply-to address of a message's User Data Header to identify the origin rather than the raw source, receiving iPhone owners risk being fooled by a phishing attack (or just a dishonest acquaintance) that poses as a contact or a company.
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In response to a request for information, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), released the raw video below.
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The domestic squabbles within the ruptured family are realistic and raw, and the climax is like something out of a home-invasion thriller (but with more goo).
Take Sharp, which since 2000 has led the world in solar panels sold (it dropped to No. 2 last year in the midst of a silicon raw-material shortage).
Senator CHRISTOPHER DODD (Democrat, Connecticut): It is very uncommon for a policy-maker to seek raw data.
Readers of a paper (including the peer reviewers) have to trust that the researchers correctly converted raw data and experimental conditions to abbreviated formats.
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By contrast, Jean Weissenbach and his colleagues at Genoscope in France made their estimate by comparing the raw human sequence now available (about 60% of the total when their paper was written) with that of a puffer fish.
The VG900 is compatible with E-mount lenses, and it's a fine stills shooter (like the A99, it's capable of 14-bit RAW captures), but it's best suited for high-end video production, where it offers 1080p recording at 24 or 60 frames-per-second through a sensor that features 45 times the area of a conventional camcorder.
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Fairly or not, Blackshaw has come to represent the "academic" side of the acoustic guitar (as opposed to the raw American Primitive sound of the late Jack Rose), so it's a surprising and somewhat ballsy move to put aside the full, resonant sound of a 12-string acoustic for the staccato feel of the electric guitar, with all the rock baggage that instrument carries.
Crowd-sourcing the analytics is quite a smart (and cheap) way for this big data company to create added value from its raw data.
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