For example, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) offers small entity or micro entity status to qualifying companies, allowing startups to pay reduced fees.
For example, the phrase genetic reductionism concerns the idea that all biological phenomena are caused by genes, and hence presupposes an ontological sense of reductionism according to which one kind of micro-entity (in this case, gene) exclusively causes a variety of higher-level phenomena (in this case, biological features, cultural phenomena, and so forth).
With these new regulations also comes a new status category called "micro-entity," which makes it financially easier for certain types of entrepreneurs to file for a patent.
"For individual inventors -- you know, the proverbial garage inventor -- [qualifying] for micro-entity status at least reduces some of the administrative cost associated with patent applications," McMullen says.
This paper presents a novel approach of handling and deposition of micro and nano entities using a microfluidic end effector system with in situ polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) sensing.
The simplicity of (M,R) interpreted in its micro-form, with four entities and three reactions, suggests that it would be extremely common.
Even though the single-droplet introduction is very efficient and promising for the analysis of micro sample volumes or single entities such as nanoparticles and cells, the currently available microdispenser modules have several drawbacks.
Organic matter contents has been processed by vermicomposting and/or by composting from the organic flora raw material, fauna including partially decomposed dead living entities like earthworm and micro to macrobial niche (Jack et al. 2011).
Under the proposed amendment a micro business is described as an entity that publishes news-related material in a multi-author blog on an "incidental basis that is relevant to the main activities of the business".
The main goal of the book seems a kind of innovative unification of entities and processes like consciousness, micro-organisms, evolution, and the chemico-physical processes involving the Earth as a whole.
For all tables, "ALL" means the set of all named entities with values corresponding to micro-averaged Precision/Recall/F-score.
