"Because of their small size, engineered nanomaterials have unique properties that do not exist at the larger scale: increased surface area, charge, reactivity and other physicochemical properties, all of which may affect how nanomaterials interact with biological entities, like cells," says Sara Brenner, assistant professor of nanobioscience at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
Finally, the large-scale increase in arthropod abundance and diversity should be the main aim of conservation efforts in intensively managed agricultural landscapes, as arthropods represent the fundamental source of energy not only for insectivorous bats but also for many other organisms in the agroecosystem.
According to the recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and its target for the large-scale increase of nearly-zero energy buildings, nowadays a challenging task is the definition of standard high performing building types depending on location and specific climate conditions.
Social interactions displayed a discrete and large scale increase in intolerance as anti-Muslim hate crimes rose to historical highs and never fully returned to pre-9/11 levels.
"One of the major, if not the major impediments to large scale increases of human insect consumption, is the strong rejection of insects as food by most of the world's population," writes Paul Rozin in a forthcoming paper, Determinants of Willingness to Eat Insects in the USA and India, to be published in the nascent Journal of Insects as Food and Feed.
Consistent with the clinical EEG observations, there were large scale increases in oscillatory activity, dominated by the beta band.
At the same time, the rapid development of high-throughput RNA sequencing methods now provides a way to observe splicing events directly and on a very large scale, increasing the amount of data available on this phenomenon by many orders of magnitude [1].
The results can further help strengthen the ability of the power system in resisting the large scale blackout by increasing the reserve and redundancy on the weaknesses through the maintenance scheduling and operational planning.
Comparison of the results at different streamwise stations shows that the time and length scales describing the large scale unsteady mass flux increase with distance from the generation point, with the highest growth close to the generation point.
The only effect of the shuffling in the large scale was a slight increase in the corresponding peak: as the shuffling homogenizes the small scale, the large scale patchiness becomes more discernible.
The large scale of such systems increases the need for such systems to tolerate and cope with failures, in a localized and decentralized manner.
