Most cities in the West, and many outside it, support a sizeable and visible industry of cycle couriers who deliver documents and small packages.

Additionally, small rodents, including squirrels, mice, and rats, are important in the sylvatic transmission cycle because of their importance as bloodmeal sources for the insect vectors.

The path of the Sun is not normally noticeable from the Earth's surface because the Earth rotates, carrying the observer through the cycle of sunrise and sunset, obscuring the small motion of the Sun against the background stars.

More precisely, he showed that a random graph on vertices, formed by choosing independently whether to include each edge with probability has, with probability tending to 1 as goes to infinity, at most cycles of length or less, but has no independent set of size Therefore, removing one vertex from each short cycle leaves a smaller graph with girth greater than in which each color class of a coloring must be small and which therefore requires at least colors in any coloring.

Another solution is to have a mechanism such as a snifting valve that automatically inserts a small bubble of air with each pump cycle.

Follicles begin growth at a steady pace in a process known as folliculogenesis, and a small number enter the menstrual cycle.

In addition, animal biochemistry contains many small molecule intermediates which assist in energy production through the Krebs cycle, and produces isoprene, the most common hydrocarbon in animals.

Such near resonances are dynamically insignificant even if the mismatch is quite small because ( unlike a true resonance ), after each cycle the relative position of the bodies shifts.

The process is then an iterative cycle of making a small program transformation, testing it to ensure correctness, and making another small transformation.

If the coil is designed to be energized with alternating current ( AC ), a small copper " shading ring " can be crimped to the end of the solenoid, creating a small out-of-phase current which increases the minimum pull on the armature during the AC cycle.

Tensions varied between the two Koreas thereafter, with cycle of small military skirmishes and apologies.

The variation caused by the sunspot cycle to solar output is relatively small, on the order of 0. 1 % of the solar constant ( a peak-to-trough range of 1. 3 W · m < sup >− 2 </ sup > compared to 1366 W · m < sup >− 2 </ sup > for the average solar constant ).

Voice problems that require voice analysis most commonly originate from the vocal folds or the laryngeal musculature that controls them, since the folds are subject to collision forces with each vibratory cycle and to drying from the air being forced through the small gap between them, and the laryngeal musclature is intensely active during speech or singing and is subject to tiring.

Cell division is usually a small segment of a larger cell cycle.

The plant's small size and rapid life cycle are also advantageous for research.

The two primes, p and q, should both be congruent to 3 ( mod 4 ) ( this guarantees that each quadratic residue has one square root which is also a quadratic residue ) and gcd ( φ ( p-1 ), φ ( q-1 )) should be small ( this makes the cycle length large ).

) We can expect to get a large cycle length for those small numbers, because.

Additional scales such as decibels, and measurement functions such as capacitance, transistor gain, frequency, duty cycle, display hold, and buzzers which sound when the measured resistance is small have been included on many multimeters.

If the amplitude is limited to small swings, the period T of a simple pendulum, the time taken for a complete cycle, is:

One such cycle of Arabic tales centres around a small group of historical figures from 9th-century Baghdad, including the caliph Harun al-Rashid ( died 809 ), his vizier Jafar al-Barmaki ( d. 803 ) and the licentious poet Abu Nuwas ( d. c. 813 ).

Polaris is near the celestial pole for only a small fraction of the 25, 700-year precession cycle.

Some small herds are milked once a day for about the last 20 days of the production cycle but this is not usual for large herds.

In the beginning of the cycle, a mature female pollinator wasp enters the immature " fruit " ( actually a stem-like structure known as a syconium ) through a small natural opening, the ostiole, which is covered in male flowers, and deposits her eggs in the cavity, which is covered in female flowers.

`` I have a small sports shop in Strasbourg ''.

A little later, the sports shop man returned with a small pup tent.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

In 1838, a devastating fire gutted their small shop and soon thereafter David Brown moved west to Illinois, settling on a land grant in his declining years.

Soon the little shop became much too small and they moved to a much larger factory building nearby ( formerly a window glass factory ), and started mass producing the Aster for a period of a few years, in which time its staff grew twentyfold.

In 1937 he designed and produced his first snowmobile in his small repair shop in Valcourt, Quebec.

A small but affluent middle class can afford to shop at the former, while the large impoverished rural community resorts to buying small amounts of daily essentials from colmados ( small stores that often double as bars ).

He opened a tobacco shop in Tirana called Flora where a small communist group soon started gathering.

After a series of events, including Odie being adopted by a small girl, both pets meeting up at a circus that they briefly joined, and both going to a pet shop, Garfield and Odie make it back home.

Thus Gutenberg was effectively bankrupt, but it appears he retained ( or re-started ) a small printing shop, and participated in the printing of a Bible in the town of Bamberg around 1459, for which he seems at least to have supplied the type.

It was first isolated in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by him in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists ' shop.

Opium smoking began as a privilege of the elite and remained a great luxury into the early nineteenth century, but by 1861, Wang Tao wrote that opium was used even by rich peasants, and even a small village without a rice store would have a shop where opium was sold.

Many small businesses, like this tyre repair shop in Touba, Senegal | Touba, are financed through the Mouride Islamic brotherhood.

Alice and the White Queen advance into the chessboard's fifth rank by crossing over a brook together, but at the very moment of the crossing, the Queen transforms into a talking Sheep in a small shop.

However, according to an article by former Space Shuttle program Director Wayne Hale on his official NASA blog, the space shuttle program, in preparation for the 2010 shutdown, has already terminated many specialty parts and materials contracts, many with small businesses whose only customer may have been the shuttle program and who closed shop and retired upon receiving their termination letters ; as a result, it would be difficult and expensive at this point to extend the shuttle program, and there would be a lag of at least a year ( without flights ) before exhausted exotic parts and supplies could be replaced.

Taxpayers consisted here of male heads of households who owned even a very small shop or piece of land.

The anger was directed against the magistrates by the small shop keepers, and they concentrated their attack on the stipendiary magistrate, Isidore Dyett.

Both tomato and tartare sauce are usually sold in small plastic tubs on the shop counter.

It was held in the printing shop in a job case, a drawer about 2 inches high, a yard wide, and about two feet deep, with many small compartments for the various letters and ligatures.

A convenience store, corner store, corner shop, or bodega ( in Spanish-speaking areas of the United States ), is a small store that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, toiletries, alcoholic and soft drinks, tobacco products, and newspapers.

A small fabric shop in Al-Mukalla, Yemen

However, one of the show's charms is to make much out of everyday, small concerns, such as the possible closure of the village shop, the loss and rediscovery of a pair of spectacles, competitive marmalade-making, or nonsense such as a ' spile troshing ' competition, rather than the large-scale and improbable events that form the plots of many soap operas.

Likewise, Willie's son, Tee Don Landry, continues the traditional hand manufacturing of rubboards in his small shop in Sunset, LA.