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Slang; a situation in which a trader suffers such large losses (usually in a short period of time) that he/she can no longer continue to trade on the market.
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Note that this microenvironment effect occurs both during the freezing and thawing steps.
Freeze-thaw cycles and nucleic acid stability: what's safe for your samples?
The aim of the project is to test out and document results of new thawing methods compared with traditional methods for thawing subdrains and ditches by using steam boilers, heating cables and ice excavation etc.
Consultancy services winter operations
Similar to food in a failing freezer, organic matter locked up in the thawing soils becomes available to microbes.
Global warming's canary in a coal mine
Punchestown, waiting to run the John Durkan Memorial Chase meeting since last Sunday, remains under snow and manager Richie Galway was yesterday more "hopeful than confident" about it thawing out in time to race on Tuesday.
Huntingdon pinning hopes on forecast for Peterborough card
The investigators defined the dough's freezing and thawing processes by the Fourier equation.
Fiber in dough impacts freezing and thawing kinetics
2002) reported thawing two-cell mouse embryos for 10 seconds at room temperature before shaking them in a 20[degrees]C water bath for 20 seconds and subsequently passing them through a series of dilution and rehydration steps.
Effect of thaw temperature on murine blastocyst development
Pep Canadell, Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project at CSIRO, Australia, and co-author of the study, the existence of these super-sized deposits of frozen carbon means that any thawing of permafrost due to global warming may lead to significant emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane.
Super-size deposits of frozen carbon in Arctic a growing threat to climate
Several authors have investigated the effect of different thawing procedures on boar semen packaged in 5 ml maxi-straws (Westendorf et al.
Some factors affecting freezing of boar semen in 5 ml maxi-straws
The laboratory has been thawing them manually at room temperature (to prevent degradation of labile analytes) by blowing air from an ordinary electric fan at batches of tubes, a process requiring more than 1 h to assure complete thawing.
Development and validation of an automated thawing and mixing workcell
Thawing of FFP in South Africa is not standardised.
The effect of thawing fresh frozen plasma (FFP) at various temperatures on in vitro coagulation factor activity
The sensor's thermistor element is isolated from not only outside moisture, but also the high stress of freezing and thawing through a unique, swaged end design that provides a moisture seal between the cable and housing.
Temperature sensor
The soil thaws from the bottom up, thus day or night temperatures have only a minimum influence on subsurface thawing.
`Worm Moon' shines on New England

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