Nanomaterials research at Yale focuses on both these challenges through the synthesis and assembly of new hard and soft materials, approaching sizes as small as the molecular- to atomic scale.
For example, if the reaction norm describing propensity to mature as a function of age (x) and size (y) is relatively flat (approaching size-constrained maturation, wherein fish tend to mature at the same size regardless of age), then fishing is expected to lead to faster growth and earlier maturation (Fig. 1A).
ω(r) decreases for window sizes comparable to the whole genome due to the lowering of the signal term, that is, when window size approaches genome size, transcriptogram values approaches the global average of transcription levels.
The size of this effect was Cohen's d =.47, which is approaching medium size.
The round, green Korean pears he was inspecting were approaching the size of tennis balls.
And larger rear-projection sets are producing images approaching the size of art-house movie screens.
The industry, with $6.4 billion in annual revenue in 2001, is approaching the size of the $8.4 billion movie industry.
Individual DNA origami structures can be programmed to create larger structures hierarchically, recently approaching the size of a small bacterium11,12.
At 443.4 sq miles and growing, the blaze is already larger than New York and approaching the size of Los Angeles.
Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle.
But critics say the provision is meaningless, noting that only a handful of contributors make soft-money donations approaching that size.
