As this substance decays, it produces beta particles, high-energy electrons that now yield nanowatts (one nanowatt is one-billionth of a watt) and may soon, the inventors hope, yield microwatts.
That progress will then, we hope, yield some directly applicable lessons concerning the role of timing in planning prevention and intervention strategies.
I started out in professional life as a maker of shrubberies an economic modeler, specializing — like my mentor Rudi Dornbusch — in cute little models that one hoped yielded surprising insights.
Tennessee dealt with its woes by offering a voluntary buyout package that it hopes will yield 2,000 fewer state jobs.
But, she added, the information it presents to travelers must continue to be comprehensive if it hopes to yield well-tailored results to users.
One triumphant year on, he has spent a year dedicated to students, passed his degree, and has a placement lined up within the university's alumni relations department, which he hopes will yield a job.
And Mr. Buffett, who spends so much time in South Africa that he has permanent residency, is driving one of those auto-steer tractors he loves into the fields, planting crops that he hopes will yield improved seeds for African farmers.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, arrives in Beijing early next week on a four-day visit that the Obama administration hopes will yield progress on its goal of better understanding, or at least more communication, between the American and Chinese militaries.
Typically when working with liquids and colors for macro video projects, he has no concrete plan it's all a trial and error process that he hopes will yield something visually and conceptually interesting.
And in due course we will, of course, report on the outcome of the top panel's deliberations.Get seriousCan such an exercise ever hope to yield useful results—let alone the hoped-for "consensus"?
