Soon the trees disappeared, the gradient increased and the soil became black and powder-fine.
The lesson of his research is that the act of reading observes a gradient of awareness.
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Gradient mainly sells its research to money management outfits, including hedge funds and short-sellers.
There are just so many examples of recontextualized culture, and you see the gradient too.
"The coastal gradient -- the rise of the land -- is very, very low here, " Chanton said.
That means that there was an energy gradient that ancient Martian life could have taken advantage of for itself.
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Since August, Byrne has waged a public relations battle against Gradient, the hedge fund Rocker Partners and, basically, the whole Wall Street community.
He hopes to use the higher profile he has received in his lawsuit against Gradient to raise awareness of the naked short issue.
It is one of a number of historic features, like Drake's Leat and Devonport Leat, which took advantage of Dartmoor's gradient.
Byrne has filed suit against Gradient and Rocker Partners for colluding in a short-selling scheme based on what he claims was fraudulent research.
The third is to be certain that the temperature gradient which that badly conducting material creates is not frittered away by poor design.
At the end of trading in July, less than two weeks ago, the curve was trading with a gradient of 250 basis points.
For the ultimate show-stopping view, stand at the harbour edge in Tsim Sha Tsui and take in Hong Kong Island's skyscrapers' gradient-defying march up steep jungle slopes.
The official Olympic Zig Zag Route, a winding climb that averages a 5% gradient over its 1.6 miles, is the fastest way to get to the top.
Short-end bill prices fell sending implied yields higher by five basis points forcing the gradient of the curve higher as the steepening process grinds forward.
But in order to leave the vent, primitive cells would have needed some way to carry a power-producing gradient with them think battery pack.
That enabled the proto-cells to still use the existing power-source in the environment the charge gradient while gradually evolving an independent way of getting power.
Pushed for time and strapped for cash, the engineers laid eight miles of track straight up Big Hill, at a gradient more than twice the safe maximum.
Fundamentally, this is a push against the economic efficiency gradient.
Instead, the transistors operate on a gradient of electrical current.
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My proposal with this fellowship will use the novel method of applying an electric field gradient instead of chemical substitution to induce charge carriers in large gap insulators, and thereby create new superconductors.
During the accumulation season, sublimation is reduced because of a low gradient of vapour pressure and the energy supplied by radiation is directly consumed by melting, explaining why discharge is high.
The charity worker was with friends on the night of 22 July 2007 when he stumbled, but he was unable to break his fall as the road had a steep gradient.
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Absent from the witnesses Wednesday were representatives of hedge funds SAC Capital and Rocker Partners, both defendants in separate civil lawsuits involving allegations of manipulative short-selling, as well as representatives of Gradient.
Biovail , the pharmaceutical company, joined this campaign last week with its own allegations that Gradient and hedge fund SAC Capital, among others, worked to distort its shares by disseminating false information about the company.
The two-10-year spread also flattened hugely with the gradient of the curve falling below 200 basis points (2%) for the first time since October and ahead of the expected second round of quantitative easing.
Mr. Fischer has painted the surface with a faded pale blue hue, a gradient of color he distilled from a landscape photograph using Photoshop, a computer program he employs in much of his work.
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The defects which plagued the busway included inadequate gradient in a park and ride site prompting fears of flooding and concerns about gaps between the concrete beams allowing them to expand or contract depending on the weather.
The villages we'd be stopping in would all be 7 to 10 miles apart on a path that follows a steady gradient up a single valley, a positively leisurely prospect compared with the up-and-down slogs from one valley to the next that characterize many Himalayan trails.
Increased evaporation from the exposed sea should also mean more snowfall to compensate for the ice cap's losses (though together with rapid erosion at the margins this could increase the gradient of the ice cap, making it less stable.) But this is small consolation for another big fear: rapid thawing of the Arctic permafrost.
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