A Texas-based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous.
Extraction is often followed by refining, in which the level of impurities is brought lower or controlled by pyrometallurgical, electrolytic, or chemical means.
Reverberatory furnace, in copper, tin, and nickel production, a furnace used for smelting or refining in which the fuel is not in direct contact with the ore but heats it by a flame blown over it from another chamber.
Thus this scheme creates refined mesh grid for given data {x k,u k } for k=0,1,2,⋯,N, i.e., mesh grid is refined in which slopes are steep.
In the 16th century the city developed an important sugar-refining industry, in which partially worked sugarcane was brought in by ship, refined, and reexported.
For them, Mr. Nakamura devotes one-half of his menu to fairly uncomplicated, if refined, dishes in which a single, familiar ingredient carries the tune.
Recently, Browning and Browning published a further update of their method, refined IBD, in which they abandoned the HMM's and used a dictionary approach, like GERMLINE, but combined it with a probabilistic assessment of the segments being shared IBD versus not being shared IBD, and thus gaining even more power.
Wefollow's technology will be used to refine the order in which users will show up in search and its prominence scores will eventually be incorporated into the about.me product.
Using the TBL model as a guiding framework, future research also could refine the ways in which the three dimensions of sustainability of brands for fashion or other product categories are both conceptualized and measured.
We have previously used artificial nerve conduits made from bioresorbable poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) in order to refine the ways in which peripheral nerves are repaired and reconnected to the target muscles and skin.
