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A key feature of the evaporation or field ion images is that the data density is highly inhomogeneous, due to the corrugation of the specimen surface at the atomic scale.
If a previous fresco was being painted over, the surface would be roughened to give a key.
In most early examples this work has now entirely vanished, but a whole fresco done a secco on a surface roughened to give a key for the paint may survive very well, although damp is more threatening to it than to buon fresco.
Upon his return to the astronaut corps in Houston, he played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers when they were on the lunar surface.
When a key is pressed, the foil tightly clings to the surface of the PC board, forming a daisy chain of two capacitors between contact pads and itself separated with thin soldermask, and thus " shorting " the contact pads with an easily detectable drop of capacitive reactance between them.
Applications range from structural elements such as steel-reinforced concrete, to the thermally insulative tiles which play a key and integral role in NASA's Space Shuttle thermal protection system which is used to protect the surface of the shuttle from the heat of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey.
It is an 8-stranded " Greek key " beta-barrel, with the active site held between the barrel and two surface loops.
Typical modern parametric feature based modeler and freeform surface systems are built around a number of key C modules with their own APIs.
The key appeared to be to place the input and output contacts very close together on the surface of the crystal on either side of this region.
For planetary surface materials, thermal inertia is the key property controlling the diurnal and seasonal surface temperature variations and is typically dependent on the physical properties of near-surface geologic materials.
A key regulator of this process is the axonally-derived signal Neuregulin-1, which binds to cell surface receptors on the Schwann cell and promotes myelination of large diameter axons and sorting of small diameter axons in Remak bundles, dependent on the activity of the β-secretase BACE1 ().
The measurement of surface pressure is key in determining the monolayer properties of an amphiphilic material.
Time summarized and interpreted the week's news ; Life was a picture magazine of politics, culture and society that dominated American visual perceptions in the era before television ; Fortune explored in depth the economy and the world of business, introducing to executives avant-garde ideas such as Keynesianism ; and Sports Illustrated which probed beneath the surface of the game to explore the motivations and strategies of the teams and key players.
One of the key results of loop quantum gravity is quantization of areas: the operator of the area of a two-dimensional surface should have a discrete spectrum.
From around 1850 to 1980, most geologists endorsed uniformitarianism (" The present is the key to the past ") and gradualism ( geologic change occurs slowly over long periods of time ) and rejected the idea that cataclysmic events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or floods of vastly greater power than those observed at the present time, played any significant role in the formation of the Earth's surface.
Other theoretical work contends that, " A sharp interface between quark matter and the vacuum would have very different properties from the surface of a neutron star "; and, addressing key parameters like surface tension and electrical forces that were neglected in the original study, the results show that as long as the surface tension is below a low critical value, the large strangelets are indeed unstable to fragmentation and strange stars naturally come with complex strangelet crusts, analogous to those of neutron stars.
The key here is that the cutting takes place along a surface that was very " nice ", i. e. incompressible.
Specification sheets or product literature will indicate embedded construction through use of key words like ‘ embedded ’ or indicate a specific probe proximity to the plate surface that is less than the plate thickness.
Three factors were largely responsible: the difficulty and expense of developing and operating mining technology that could economically remove the nodules from depths of five or six kilometers and transport them to the ocean surface, the high taxes the international community would charge for the mining, and the continuing availability of the key minerals from land-based sources at market prices.
Similar to interpolation in many respects, a key difference is that the surface does not, in general, pass through the central control points ; rather, it is " stretched " toward them as though each were an attractive force.
The close proximity of the stitching and the natural grass roots growing around the stitching is what gives the pitch its stability and is the key to the success of this type of surface.

key and transportation
* Industry Services, including Business Process Outsourcing ( BPO )-addresses the core business challenges of clients in five key industries: healthcare, transportation, communications, government, and financial services, among others.
On some islands, major rivers provide a key transportation link in the absence of good roads.
Planned privatizations of key parastatals, primarily telecommunications and transportation monopolies, were launched to help improve a dilapidated and unreliable infrastructure.
The country ’ s economy is reasonably diversified with key economic sectors including mining, agriculture and fishery, vehicle manufacturing and assembly, food-processing, clothing and textiles, telecommunication, energy, financial and business services, real estate, tourism, transportation, and wholesale and retail trade.
* Aggravating circumstances-three to 15 years: a ) by two or more persons together b ) by a person in possession of a gun or a narcotic substance c ) by a masked or disguised person d ) against a person who cannot defend his or herself e ) in a public place f ) in a public transportation vehicle g ) during the night h ) during a natural disaster i ) through burglary, or by using an original or copied key j ) stealing national treasures k ) stealing official identity papers with the intention to make use of them l ) stealing official identity badges with the intention to make use of them
Since World War II, this attitude in planning has resulted in the widespread use of travel modeling as a key component of regional transportation planning.
Its location along the Ohio River was key to its early development, as the river was the major transportation route.
In the Wannsee Conference, Germany offered the Croatian government transportation of its Jews southwards, but questioned the importance of the offer, saying that: " the enactment of the final solution of the Jewish question is not crucial, since the key aspects of this problem were already solved by radical actions these governments took ".
Other key industries driving Oxnard's existence include finance, transportation, the high tech industry, and energy, particularly petroleum.
As a city located on the Gulf of Mexico, water transportation is a key consideration.
Because of this key transportation corridor, Billerica earned the moniker " Gateway to Lowell.
In that pact, allegedly signed by Donald Rumsfeld, included transportation insurance for themselves and their families outside Iraq, large sums of money, the promise of official positions in Iraq post-invasion for those who had not committed war crimes, including U. S. residency and citizenship for some key leaders.
" A country's infrastructure ( transportation, telecommunications and energy industry ) is a major part of the manufacturing sector that usually has a key role in IP.
Unlike Alpha, instead of learning how to storm aircraft and buses, they operate in an entirely different environment, being tasked with protection of strategic installations such as key factories and transportation centers.
Within each mode of transportation is a hidden key, which, when combined with the other keys, can unlock the doors that imprison the hostage.
Widespread use of hydrogen for fueling transportation is a key element of a proposed hydrogen economy.
Shortly before the Liberation of Paris, Hitler ordered explosives to be placed around important landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, and key transportation hubs.
In response to public concerns fearing loss of key transportation links, the Government of Canada assumed majority ownership of the near bankrupt Canadian Northern Railway ( CNoR ) on September 6, 1918, and appointed a " Board of Management " to oversee the company.
War Plan Red first set out a description of Canada's geography, military resources, and transportation, and went on to evaluate a series of possible pre-emptive American campaigns to invade Canada in several areas and occupy key ports and railways before British troops could provide reinforcement to the Canadians-the assumption being that Britain would use Canada as a staging point.
Historically, the Gananoque River's watershed had been an important water transportation corridor, extending north to the Rideau River watershed and playing a key role in the town's early history and economic importance.
Also during this period, the " Panama Canal Act " was passed in 1911 ; it proved key to the revival of waterway transportation in the U. S, because when the canal opened in 1914, it allowed coastal shipping to extend to the country's west coast for the first time.
For centuries, Kameoka served as a key transportation point to connect San ' in region and Tanba providence with Kyoto.
Bertone is now over 100 years old, and is expanding its expertise and capabilities in key sectors in nowadays continuously changing global economy, like ICT and sustainable transportation systems.
Traditionally, Georgia served also as an international transportation corridor through the key Black Sea ports of Batumi and Poti.
Areas of key interest included transportation history, slavery, and agriculture.

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