These scale effects have driven Coca-Cola to become a highly multinational company.
Nor need physicists look only to the sky to see Planck-scale effects.
But troublesome questions have lingered, and the existence of large-scale rebound effects is not so easy to dismiss.
Dr White compared the scale of the effects of living in a greener area to "big-hitting" life events such as marriage.
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Active Network benefits from scale, network effects, and a value proposition that drives great efficiency as it helps move traditional offline pen-and-paper processes to the online world.
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While there are industries where it makes sense to allow duopolies or even monopolies to obtain economies of scale and network effects computer operating systems and electric utilities might be two examples the tradeoff usually is that they must accept closer government regulation to prevent price-gouging and other abuses.
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Its goal for its second year, about to begin, is to spread rapidly within those 600 institutions, not least to see what the effects of scale are from having lots of classes signed up within the same institution.
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Of course as cities get larger and larger, the challenge of dealing with mega-scale, overcoming its dehumanising effects and avoiding over-building becomes a central occupation.
Natural climate variability, from seasonal to multi-year scale, has produced significant effects in the Latin American countries, which suggests that climatic change projections constitute an important element for national and regional planning.
While no-one really knows whether this storm will create chaos or full-scale national catastrophe, the political effects are already being felt.
Del Toro had filled the house with dozens of monster maquettes from his films scale models created by special-effects shops during the early design phase, allowing the imaginary to become palpable.
Yet any economist should have been able to predict the effects of such grand-scale interference with the market.
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They have found a number of places, both in the night sky and in the laboratory, where the nature of space and time at the Planck scale would have indirect, but observable effects.
Within each break point, the designer can set different rules and effects for how the elements will scale and transition into the adjacent break point.
Villages and rural communities lack economies of scale and are incapable of delivering the same network effects as cities.
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The scale of the damage may have longer-term effects on luxury spending that are difficult to pin on a timeline.
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Let me quickly mention one of the key side effects that concerns me about very large scale asset purchases: the removal of collateral from the financial system.
At the scale of the clean energy sector as a whole the effects of the cash grant program have been substantial and positive.
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The European Commission recently examined the effects of biofuel mandates, and decided to scale back by half its original 2020 target for transportation fuel made from food sources.
Motion capture can only feature three or fewer people at a time, so for the more complex fight sequences which will feature a cast of thousands, motion-capture data will be combined and special effects employed, to create a full-scale battlefield.
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But, policies that, largely, are unproven, especially on this scale and magnitude, have the potential for very counterproductive side effects.
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If the deal does go through, the British economy would certainly feel the effects of an injection of capital on such a scale.
But whether they actually do this or whether sub-lethal effects occur and damage the colonies on any important scale has not been proven.
Integrated horticultural infrastructure and a national smart grid have three important things in common: They can begin to have positive effects at a small level and expand to large scale, they are long term, and they produce jobs with money that circulates within our economy.
While presently only 0.03 TW of energy was extracted from wind in 2008, and there is room for a considerable expansion of this technology with relatively insignificant effects on the climate, any future expansion on a global scale must take account that the potential for extraction of wind energy is finite according to the nature of the Earth system.
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But when researchers conducted a clinical trial using a more exacting survey about sexual issues, called the Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASEX), they found that Cymbalta does cause increases in sexual side effects.
She said that, as with all new medicines, it would be important to monitor closely for side-effects as the drug comes in to long-term use on a large scale.
Large-scale land concessions often generate a planning blight effect, which here refers to the uncertainty and deleterious effects on the social fabric and economic activities in targeted areas once a land allocation decision is made, or once negotiations between government and prospective investors have begun.
The software comes with a number of basic transition effects that you can place between different scenes: cross dissolve, fade, push right, scale down.
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