If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

If, however, a layer of paper remains stuck to the surface, the adhesive has not failed.

If the ball socket were too tight, the ink did not reach the paper.

If matrix support is polar ( e. g. paper, silica etc.

If Alice collaborates with Paul Erdős on one paper, and with Bob on another, but Bob never collaborates with Erdős himself, then Bob is given an Erdős number of 2, as he is two steps from Erdős.

If the dye has the opposite charge, it is attracted to and retained by this coating, while the solvent soaks into the paper.

If they choose not to, they must write one research paper.

If you take a piece of paper in your hands, holding it on both ends, you can pull very hard and not tear the paper.

) If you pull too fast, the paper simply snaps in half.

In 2001, David Wiley criticized learning object theory in his paper, The Reusability Paradox which is summarized by D ' Arcy Norman as, If a learning object is useful in a particular context, by definition it is not reusable in a different context.

If this image were transferred directly to paper, it would create a mirror-type image and the paper would become too wet.

If these lines are distinct and parallel, and / or there is a watermark, then the paper is termed laid paper.

If the lines appear as a mesh or are indiscernible, and / or there is no watermark, then it is called wove paper.

If an ant were to crawl along the length of this strip, it would return to its starting point having traversed the entire length of the strip ( on both sides of the original paper ) without ever crossing an edge.

If the impression is made purely as a relief resulting from the greater pressure on the paper where the high parts of the matrix touch, the seal is known as a dry seal ; in all other cases a liquid or liquified medium ( such as ink or wax ) is used, usually in another color than the paper.

* Joel Spolsky ( for Apps Hungarian ): " If you read Simonyi's paper closely, what he was getting at was the same kind of naming convention as I used in my example above where we decided that meant " unsafe string " and meant " safe string.

Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History said, " If I was reviewing paper I would probably opt to reject it ," he says, " but I'm not saying it's a bad thing that this is published.

If paper moves through the fuser more slowly, there is more roller contact time for the toner to melt, and the fuser can operate at a lower temperature.

If one places between the phosphorescent substance and the paper a piece of money or a metal screen pierced with a cut-out design, one sees the image of these objects appear on the negative ... One must conclude from these experiments that the phosphorescent substance in question emits rays which pass through the opaque paper and reduce silver salts.

If the shredder doesn't cut paper small enough, confidential documents could be removed from the trash, reassembled and read.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If binding around a not fully convex, or square-edged object, arrange the knot so the overhand knot portion is stretched across a convex portion, or a corner, with the riding turn squarely on top of it.

If the string is stretched between two points where x = 0 and x = L and u denotes the amplitude of the displacement of the string, then u satisfies the one-dimensional wave equation in the region where 0 < x < L and t is unlimited.

If a membrane is stretched over a curve C that forms the boundary of a domain D in the plane, its vibrations are governed by the wave equation

* If a person is lying on his / her stomach with arms stretched in front and another person raises his / her arms about 2 feet off the ground and holds them there for approximately one minute, with the person on the ground having his / her eyes closed and head hanging, then slowly lowers the arms to the ground, it will feel as if the arms are going below the level of the rest of the body.

An intrinsic definition of the Gaussian curvature at a point P is the following: imagine an ant which is tied to P with a short thread of length r. She runs around P while the thread is completely stretched and measures the length C ( r ) of one complete trip around P. If the surface were flat, she would find C ( r ) = 2πr.

If they were too small, he stretched them to fit.

If some force is acting on the elastic cantilever ( for example because some molecule is being stretched between the surface and the tip ), this will deflect upward ( repulsive force ) or downward ( attractive force ).

If the definition of a term such as “ equality ” can be stretched to include a particular act or condition, then public support for that act or condition is likely to be stronger than it was previously.

If an arm is stretched the span of the hand corresponds to an angle of 18 to 20 °.

If done carefully, these can sometimes be stretched without breaking, but cracks around lettering on some drums is common.

If disturbed in the open, this crake will often run in a crouch for a short distance, with its neck stretched forward, then stand upright to watch the intruder.

If it is close, it will appear stretched out, as if it is very close to the viewer.

If vessels cannot be stretched into the scrotum, or are separated and cannot be reconnected, a testis will die and atrophy.

If the pericycle is superficial and the cortex is retained either the endodermis is stretched or crushed or it keeps pace with the expansion of the vascular cylinder by radial anticlinal divisions, the new walls developing Casparian strips in continuity with the old ones.

If pressure is applied to the muscles of the right lower abdomen ( or iliac fossa ) near a very irritated appendix, then the muscle fibers in that area will be stretched and will hurt.

If an individual's skin elasticity and vascularity allow, most piercings can be stretched far beyond their initial size.

If it is desired to transform a square into a circle, cord of length half the diagonal the square is stretched from the centre to the east part of it lying outside the eastern side of the square ; with one-third the part lying outside added to the remainder the half diagonal, the circle is drawn.

If it gets wet at this stage it must be stretched again until dry, or it will revert to being a stiff piece of scraped rawhide.

If this happens, they clearly its long body and legs stretched as far as possible to get in touch with the vegetation or the substrate to come.

If these tissues are stretched or torn, and the joint is instabilized by the injury, new bone is produced to help to stabilize the joint.