Significant increases in strength ( 2 – 5 times ), toughness ( 1 – 4 times ), and creep resistance have been observed in systems including SiC / Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >, SiC / Si < sub > 3 </ sub > N < sub > 4 </ sub >, SiC / MgO, and Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >/ ZrO < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Significant cost increases led to the project being mothballed by the George H. W. Bush administration.

Significant increases in skin cancers and tumors are found in clinical trial data of the nonbenzodiazepine hypnotics compared to trial subjects who took placebo tablets.

* Significant increases in amplitudes of F2, F3 and F4 were found

Significant publications include a collection of texts, a grammar and a lexicon ( both published posthumously ), in addition to a theoretically significant article on Menomini phonological alternations.

Significant measures have been taken to liberalize the Tanzanian economy along market lines and encourage both foreign and domestic private investment.

Significant outcries surfaced both within Taiwan and abroad opposing the concept of Taiwan localization in the early years after President Chiang Ching-kuo's death, denouncing it as the " independent Taiwan movement " ( Chinese: 台獨運動 ).

Significant too is, where Jesus heals a man in a process that is slow and involves saliva ; Mark Goodacre suggests both these features make it a passage more likely to be omitted than added, implying Mark wrote first.

Significant elements of both of these styles ( the split eye, trophy heads, and staff-bearing profile figures, for example ) seem to have been derived from that of the earlier Pukara culture in the northern Titicaca Basin.

Significant opposition to the Iraq War occurred worldwide, both before and during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and smaller contingents from other nations, and throughout the subsequent occupation.

Significant quantities of nickel ( the primary target ) as well as copper and cobalt were subsequently extracted from this " ore " using both pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical methods.

Significant alterations were made in 1841 when both sides were widened, adding 45 cm to the width of the bridge.

As he told a Senate committee, " Significant cuts in the Defense Budget now would seriously weaken the U. S. position on international negotiations — in which U. S. military capabilities, in both real and symbolic terms, are an important factor.

Significant to the argument are the elegant experiments of William F. Towne, of the Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, such as this pdf file, in which hives are moved to " mirror image " terrain settings, and thus fooled into both dancing about the wrong location for a nectar source, and successfully recruiting foragers to that wrong location, but only when the sun is obscured by clouds, forcing them to rely on terrain-based navigation rather than " solar ephemeris " based navigation.

Significant results were reached in the following years both in scientific research and in the organization of teaching.

Significant factors contributing to its demise include: ( 1 ) the deaths of a substantial percentage of the Kalmyk population from disease and malnutrition, both during their travel and upon their arrival to remote exile settlements in Central Asia, south central Siberia and the Soviet Far East ; ( 2 ) the wide dispersal of the Kalmyk population ; ( 3 ) the duration of exile, which ended in 1957 ; ( 4 ) the stigma associated with being accused of treason, and ( 5 ) assimilation into the larger, more dominant culture.

Significant changes occurred in 1965, when the line was singled and both legs of the triangle at the eastern end of the line were closed.

Significant to the history of both approaches were the contributions made by Bernard Weiner in the 1970s.

Significant conversion losses of energy occur both in the electrolysis process, and in the conversion of the resulting hydrogen back into power.

Significant points on the journey include Crianlarich, an important Highland junction of both road and rail, and Tyndrum, the smallest place in Scotland to boast two railway stations.

Significant events held here included the handing back of Perlis and Setul ( now Satun ) to Kedah by the Siamese in May 1897 ( both provinces were separated from Kedah since 1821 ) and a 90-day festival from June to September 1904 to celebrate the wedding of the five children of Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah.

Significant Wraith technologies include culling beams and stunners, both of which primarily function to capture human prey.

Significant players it has produced have include Tom Richards, who played for both the British Isles and Australia, Sam Tucker, John Blake, John Pullin and Alan Morley.

Significant cities, both major and minor, are shown.

Significant excess mortality was found in both males and females.

Significant city council regeneration of private properties in the south of the area in 2005 has helped both the quality of housing and the respective house prices.

Significant military loans would be cancelled, and much military property made over to the Kenyan Government.

Significant operation success in Kosovo led to resumption of production and technical improvements, and the system is at present in operational use in Iraq and other military operations.

Significant contact with Tatars and Turks resulted in many Turkic words, particularly those involving military matters and steppe industry, being adopted into the Ukrainian language.

Significant work has also been done using surround sound for enhanced situation awareness in military and public safety applications.

Significant amounts of U. S. military flight testing is performed there, and it has been the site of many important aeronautical accomplishments, including the first flight to break the sound barrier.

Significant developments were made to the aerodrome ; the addition of two runways, taxiways and extra hangarage led to Yeadon becoming an important site for military aircraft testing.

Significant protection was still part of the plan as the reduction primarily came on those imports not in competition with domestic producers.

Significant research efforts in Japan, Europe, and the United States are under way to capitalize on the potential offered by diamond's unique material properties, combined with increased quality and quantity of supply starting to become available from synthetic diamond manufacturers.

Significant are such canvases as `` Bleeker Street, Saturday Night '', with its typically American crowd ( Sloan never went abroad ) ; ;

Significant alcohol intake produces changes in the brain's structure and chemistry, though some alterations occur with minimal use of alcohol over a short term period, such as tolerance and physical dependence.

Significant changes came in 1910 with the reform of the Roman Breviary by Pope Pius X.

Significant trade with neighbouring countries, for example, exports of camels and other livestock to neighbouring states, such as Libya, and imports of manufactured goods, are conducted " informally " and probably not fully recorded.

Significant tunnel and bridge construction projects in the south of Dalmatia are planned, such as the Biokovo tunnel near Makarska, which will connect the panoramic seashore road with the future A1, and a long Pelješac bridge, connecting the Pelješac peninsula to the Croatian mainland.

" Significant amounts " of hexavalent chromium were found in the water of more than 40 homes in the area, some of which have now been fitted with state-monitored filters on their water supply.

* African festivals Significant African festivals based on the continent include the biannual Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou FESPACO in Burkina Faso, the annual Durban International Film Festival which has grown in importance for industry with the addition of a co-production forum and Talent Campus.

Significant failure of monsoon rains historically meant drought and famine while above-normal rains still cause flooding and landslides with losses in human lives, farmland and buildings.

Significant progress has also been made in bringing the world of UML modeling and the Semantic Web together through the adoption of the Ontology Definition Metamodel which relates UML models in a standard way with RDF and Web Ontology Language ( OWL ) models.

Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard ; HMS Challenger during the 1870s ; the USS Tuscarora ( 1873 – 76 ); and the German Gazelle ( 1874 – 76 ).

Significant privatizations of this nature occurred from 1760 to 1820, coincident with the industrial revolution in that country.

Significant privatization of state owned enterprises in Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union was undertaken in the 1990s with assistance from the World Bank, the U. S. Agency for International Development, the German Treuhand, and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations.

Significant advances in the state-of-the-art in CSR have been achieved, and current efforts are focused on integrating speech recognition and natural language processing to allow spoken language interaction with a naval resource management system.

Significant differences remain with Myanmar over boundary alignment and the handling of ethnic rebels, refugees and illegal drug trade, in addition to mineral exploration and fishing rights.

The Fermi-1 commercial fast reactor prototype used HEU with 26. 5 % < sup > 235 </ sup > U. Significant quantities of HEU are used in the production of medical isotopes, for example molybdenum-99 for technetium-99m generators.

Significant problems with the metric of this form stem from the fact that all known warp drive spacetimes violate various energy conditions.

These " Bloomsbury assumptions " are also reflected in members ' criticisms of materialistic realism in painting and fiction, influenced above all by Clive Bell's " concept of ' Significant Form ', which separated and elevated the concept of form above content in works of art ": it has been suggested that, with their " focus on form ... Bell's ideas have come to stand in for, perhaps too much so, the aesthetic principles of the Bloomsbury Group ".

Significant progress came following the work of Louis Pasteur and his advances in microbiology, when the British surgeon Joseph Lister began experimenting with using phenol during surgery to prevent infections.

Significant amounts of teaching occurred in the museum as well with students claiming they learnt far more in the museum than they ever did in the lecture theatre.

Significant emphasis was also placed on town planning, with new conservation areas introduced and a new generation of new towns built, notably Milton Keynes – this trend itself a continuation of efforts initiated in the latter years of the preceding Conservative administration.

Significant numbers of British Churchill and Matilda tanks along with US M3 Lee were shipped to the USSR after becoming obsolete on the African Front with the Churchills supplied by the arctic convoys seeing action around Leningrad while tanks shipped by the Persian route supplied the Caucasian Front.

Significant events of the latter variety occurred in Colorado and Kansas in May 2004 with winds to 100 mph ( 161 km / h ), Minnesota and Wisconsin in June 2004 causing significant damage, and the upper Middle West in May 1988, notable for strong electrification and lightning activity and by one estimate reaching 30, 000 ft ( 9, 144 m ) or more.

Significant growth in real estate prices continues, along with other major Romanian cities, as investor sentiment remains high, given the large foreign direct investment influx, recent accession to the European Union and forthcoming airport.