For example, in our previous work [12], we addressed the effects of quantum confinement and, to a lesser scale, the effect of the C or Si richness in the surface of H-terminated pSiC on the electronic structure.
The crash, known as the Ustica affair, has produced legions of conspiracy theories here, the way the Kennedy assassination — or, on a lesser scale, the crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island in 1996 — have in the United States.
Phanariotes ruled those potentially rich provinces as the viceroys of the sultans, and their luxurious courts in Jassy (now Iași, Romania) and Bucharest copied on a lesser scale the splendour of the imperial court in Constantinople.
That the same has happened with stewarding, albeit on a lesser scale, is a source of some embarrassment, though Mr Robertson said that, given the extra costs are a response to the vast crowds at the jubilee and the torch relay, "you could say we were managing success".
In a post-euro, or post-EU Greece, it might be difficult to suppress or control this latent history of European brutality, one that included Italy (though on a lesser scale), Croatia and any number of Ukrainian mercenaries shipped into the Balkans.
But that should still have serious health effects, albeit of a lesser scale, says Rogers.
My husband and I dwell -- like the Kordas, though on a lesser scale -- in the realm of leaking roofs, mice in the walls, failed septic systems, power outages, frozen water buckets, mammoth snow removals and major manure piles.
The timing is coincidental, but the Gates initiative is a reminder that even the death toll after the tsunami, horrific though it was, is on a lesser scale than this most preventable of scourges.
Elsewhere, events were of a lesser scale and simply incomparable to Punjab's misery.
