New devices were recently developed to substitute the external ligature by expandable ring allowing use in acute ascending aorta dissection, providing airtight ( i. e. not dependent on the coagulation integrity ), easy and quick anastomosis extended to the arch concavity Less invasive endovascular techniques allow covered metallic stent grafts to be inserted through the arteries of the leg and deployed across the aneurysm.

Less neurotransmitter could either stimulate ( depolarize ) or inhibit ( hyperpolarize ) the bi-polar cell it synapses with, dependent on the nature of the receptor on the bipolar cell.

Less commonly, the focus is on a quantile, or other location parameter of the conditional distribution of the dependent variable given the independent variables.

Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

Less than three hours ago we'd decided, in Maxine Wells's pad on Cosmo, to commit a trial murder.

Less than a year after retiring as a player, the Blues retired number 24 in his honor on March 16, 1992.

Less than a month later, on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military deposed Allende, who shot himself in the head to avoid capture as the Presidential Palace was surrounded and bombed.

Less dense fluids float on more dense fluids if they do not mix.

Less common species such as Exmoor Horn and Cheviot are also to be found on Dartmoor.

Less formally, the equivalence relation ker on X, takes each function f: X → X to its kernel ker f. Likewise, ker ( ker ) is an equivalence relation on X ^ X.

Less than a week after the Westminster convention ended, while Allen and the committee worked on their petition, the American Revolutionary War began.

Less restrictive censorship towards the end of the 1950s encouraged B-film producer Hammer Films to embark on their series of influential and wildly successful horror films.

Less than two years after its U. S release, King Kong vs. Godzilla was paid homage to by DC Comics, where the King Kong-like Titano battles the Godzilla-like Flame Dragon on the set of a monster movie.

Less than two days after arriving, Parsons died on September 19, 1973, in Joshua Tree, California, at the age of 26 from an overdose of morphine and alcohol.

Less than a month later, the Reichstag building was set on fire.

Less than seven weeks later, on 25 March, Bruce was crowned as King.

Less formally, people also use loan words within day-to-day speech, although this has been on the decline in recent decades and among younger generations.

Less than a month after Sentimental Journey was published, early in 1768, Sterne's strength failed him, and he died in his lodgings at 41 Old Bond Street on the 18 March, at the age of 54.

Less than one hour from the centre of the city, it is possible to see Little Penguins in all months, including visiting sensitive areas where they remain on land for extended periods for the purposes of moulting.

Less than 12 hours later, Indian paratroopers arrived on Hulele, causing some of the mercenaries to flee toward Sri Lanka in their freighter.

Less well known were a series of anti-shipping and anti-aircraft missiles, typically based on a simple radio control system directed by the operator.

Less than three weeks later, on November 18, 1903, the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty was signed between Frenchman Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who had promptly been appointed Panamanian ambassador to the United States, representing Panamanian interests, and the United States Secretary of State John Hay.

Less rigorous than Francia, López loosened restrictions on foreign intercourse, boosted exports, invited foreign physicians, engineers, and investors to settle in Paraguay, and paid for students to study abroad.

Without doubt, the single most significant paper concerning the distribution of prime numbers was Riemann's 1859 memoir On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude, the only paper he ever wrote on the subject.

Less conservative linguists have advanced proposals on the vocabulary and syntax of the ancestor language.

Less than three weeks later, Nurmi retired from running with a 10, 000 m victory in Viipuri on 16 September 1934.

Later in 1998, Crow took part in a live concert in tribute to Burt Bacharach, in which she contributed vocals on One Less Bell to Answer.

Less than a week after the Boozer loss the Jazz traded Kosta Koufos and 2 future first round picks to Minnesota for Al Jefferson, using the trade exception from the Boozer deal to receive Jefferson's contract without exceeding the salary cap.

Less than a month after the All-Star Game, the Mighty Ducks acquired Finnish winger Teemu Selänne in a trade with the Winnipeg Jets.

Less well-off members of the elite, unable to buy tapestries due either to prices or wars preventing international trade, turned to wallpaper to brighten up their rooms.

Less than two weeks after the trade, Parker suffered a career ending knee injury.

Less quantitative forms of a similar " infant industry " argument against totally free trade have been advanced by trade theorists since at least 1848 ( see: History of free trade ).

Less bull the more you can do with em.

Less can be said about the Asterales themselves with certainty, although since several families in Asterales contain trees, the ancestral member is most likely to have been a tree or shrub.

Less air yields an incomplete and thus cooler reaction, while a gas stream well mixed with air provides oxygen in an equimolar amount and thus a complete and hotter reaction.

Less illustrious uses refer to folklore and urban legend and a variety of explanatory narratives which are constructed with methodological flaws or biases.

Less formal efforts, called community building or community organizing, seek to empower individuals and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities.

Less common are well-documented cases with enough evidence to support the accusation.

Less than a hundred years later, Aristotle developed an almost " biological ' theory of the development of tragedy in Athens: according to this view, the art form grew under the influence of Aeschylus, matured in the hands of Sophocles then began its precipitous decline with Euripides.

Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, usually with tellurium.

Less than half of Honduras's cultivable land was planted with crops as recently as the mid-1980s.

Less expensive four-cylinder cars did not offer Holden's ability to deal with rugged rural areas.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

Less than ten percent falls as snow at sea level but the amount of snowfall increases significantly with elevation.

Less thrilled by his looks than his " chief charm ", his " low, husky voice with a soft, sibilant accent ", she described his face as " swarthy ":

Less than twenty years after the last vestiges of Paganism were crushed with great severity by the emperor Theodosius I Rome was seized by Alaric in 410.

Modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is associated with the phrase " less is more "; in contrast Venturi famously said, " Less is a bore.

Less modular procedures, often used in small or quickly written programs, tend to interact with a large number of variables in the execution environment, which other procedures might also modify.

Less sophisticated filtering is required, and range ambiguity processing is not normally needed with weather radar in comparison with military radar intended to track air vehicles.

A song he recorded named " Life Fades Away ", written with friend Glenn Danzig, was featured in the film Less Than Zero.

Less than one year after independence, on 5 June 1977, with James Mancham in London to attend the Commonwealth Conference, Rene's supporters staged a blood-less coup and installed Rene as President.

Less obvious manifestations of stanzaic form can be found as well, as in Shakespeare's sonnets, which, while printed as whole units in themselves, can be broken into stanzas with the same rhyme scheme followed by a final couplet, as in the example of Sonnet 116: