Armored cars and light tanks have adopted the reconnaissance role while medium and heavy tanks are regarded as the decisive shock troops.

Fats play a vital role in maintaining healthy skin and hair, insulating body organs against shock, maintaining body temperature, and promoting healthy cell function.

In the VF tissue, HA plays a role of shear-thinner, affecting the tissue viscosity, space-filler, shock absorber, as well as wound healing and cell migration promoter.

Is there a role for prophylactic shock wave lithotripsy for asymptomatic calyceal stones?

This designation reflects the traditional role of grenadiers as shock troops.

However these things may be, he loves you as tenderly as ever ; nothing, to the end of time, will ever detach him from you, & he remembers those Eleventh St. matutinal intimes hours, those telephonic matinées, as the most romantic of his life ... His long friendship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, in whose house he lived for a number of weeks in Italy in 1887, and his shock and grief over her suicide in 1894, are discussed in detail in Leon Edel's biography and play a central role in a study by Lyndall Gordon.

On May 11, 2007, He won the Drama League Award for distinguished performance for his portrayal of shock jock " Barry Champlain " in Talk Radio, and has received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for the role.

Treatment with corticosteroids might be most beneficial in those with septic shock and early severe acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ), whereas its role in others such as those with pancreatitis or severe pneumonia is unclear.

They also play a role in shock absorption, and may be cracked, or torn, when the knee is forcefully rotated and / or bent.

Kevin J. Tracey and Cerami discovered the key mediator role of TNF in lethal septic shock, and identified the therapeutic effects of monoclonal anti-TNF antibodies.

In a 2009 audio commentary for the Blu-ray edition of the film, Parker and Stone expressed shock at how little the character was used, and agreed that any South Park movie made today would demand he play a role in the plot.

Heat shock proteins appear to serve a significant cardiovascular role.

A false protagonist is presented at the start of the fictional work as the main character, but then is eradicated, often by killing them ( usually for shock value or as a plot twist ) or changed in terms of their role in the story ( i. e. making them a lesser character, a character who leaves the story, or revealing them to actually be the antagonist ).

The combatless loss of the Dannevirke, which in the 19th century played a big role in Danish national mythology due to its long history, caused in Denmark a substantial psychological shock, and de Meza as a result had to resign from supreme command.

Although speculated to be in the role of Director of Football or General Manager, the job is thought to be more restricted, involving transfers, scouting and youth development, alongside simultaneous appointment of Tony Jimenez as Vice President ( Player Recruitment ) and Jeff Vetere as Technical Co-ordinator, following the earlier shock return of first team manager Kevin Keegan.

But dance was in her blood so she left a contract role after two years, to the shock of the producers and her agent, to ' shadow ' Bob Fosse's entourage and " gypsy " New York's finest jazz and ballet classes until she left with her boyfriend for Los Angeles in 1981.

Shortly after the release of Carnival of Chaos, select members of the Gwar ensemble appeared on The Jerry Springer Show to discuss the growing trend of " shock rock " and their role as entertainers.

On 19 August 2010, Turner left his role as caretaker manager and director of sport of Hartlepool United with immediate effect, sparking shock around the club.

Throughout the nineteenth century, under La Marmora ’ s leadership, the Bersaglieri filled the role of skirmishers, screening the slow-moving line and column formations, but acting as special shock troops if required.

Reparti d ' assalto ( Assault Units ) were formed in the summer of 1917 by Colonel Bassi, and were assigned the tactical role of shock troops, breaching enemy defenses in order to prepare the way for a broad infantry advance.

Although chariots have been compared to modern-day tanks in the role they played on the battlefield, i. e., shock attacks, this is disputed with scholars pointing out that chariots were vulnerable and fragile, required a level terrain while tanks are all-terrain vehicles, and thus not suitable for use in the way modern tanks have been used as a physical shock force.

It is the proximate cause of septic shock and may play a role in many diseases with an autoimmune etiology.

It is also the cause of septic shock and may play a role in many diseases with an autoimmune etiology.

As a junior, White won the Yale literary prize for the best essay, writing on the topic " The Greater Distinctions in Statesmanship ", a great shock to the campus as a senior traditionally wrote the winning essay.

Swing axle suspensions traditionally used leaf springs and shock absorbers.

Since the take over by the Johnston Press, the Limerick Leader has pursued a more " tabloid " agenda concentrating on headlines designed to shock and veering away from the more traditionally " Limerick Pride " Agenda for which the paper was known over the years.

His works are also known for being filled with sexual double-entendres, dirty jokes and bawdy songs that may shock even modern readers.

The space between the two layers of it is filled with a pericardium fluid which protects the heart from any kind of external jerk or shock.

The R3 package added slightly improved suspension over the base model by adding Bilstein shock absorbers and a foam filled front crossmember to improve rigidity.

Delphi currently sells shock absorbers filled with a magneto-rheological fluid, whose viscosity can be changed electromagnetically, thereby giving variable control without switching valves, which is faster and thus more effective.

Over the next week the Times Higher Education website filled with comments about the article, many expressing shock but some expressing support.

Beyond the third episode of the OAV, she pilots an experimental mecha naked, as the cockpit is filled with water as a shock absorber.

Insensitive munitions are almost always filled with fire resistant, shock resistant insensitive high explosives ( IHE ) such as triaminotrinitrobenze ( TATB ) or various insensitive explosive mixtures, or plastic / polymer-bonded explosives, which are similar to reactive materials.

An improved handling package was introduced in 1985 that incorporated a revised front sway bar, gas filled shock absorbers, and lower friction rear springs.

Rear: 3link rigid axle with isolated trailing arm, coil spring and gas filled shock absorbers

* Front: Independent sliding pillar with coil springs and gas filled telescopic shock absorbers

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

A mild electrical shock served as a conditioned stimulus and was followed by feeding.

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).

At 17:07 that afternoon ( Greenwich time ) the shock was recorded by the seismograph alarm in Honolulu.

At the speed of sound the way that lift is generated changes dramatically, from being dominated by Bernoulli's principle to forces generated by shock waves.

Hypersonic flow is characterized by high temperature flow behind a shock wave, viscous interaction, and chemical dissociation of gas.

Once a forecasting error is made by agents, due to a stochastic shock, they will be unable to correctly forecast the price level again even if the price level experiences no further shocks since they only ever incorporate part of their errors.

The " shock ending " finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen, split-diopter and slow motion shots tell the story visually rather than through dialogue.

After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

In attempt to wake comatose patients, some hospitals treat their patients by either reversing the cause of comatose ( i. e. glucose shock if low sugar ), giving medication to stop brain swelling, or inducing hypothermia.

Many crystalline minerals can be transformed into higher-density phases by shock waves ; for example, the common mineral quartz can be transformed into the higher-pressure forms coesite and stishovite.

Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering.

The damage produced by the shock wave raises the temperature of the material.

As well as being heated, the target near the impact is accelerated by the shock wave, and it continues moving away from the impact behind the decaying shock wave.

Though astronomers are not sure what has caused this ring of new stars, some hypothesize that it is from shock waves caused by a bar that is thus far invisible.

Celery is among a small group of foods ( headed by peanuts ) that appear to provoke the most severe allergic reactions ; for people with celery allergy, exposure can cause potentially fatal anaphylactic shock.

Calves and heavily fleeced sheep are killed by attacking the flanks or hindquarters, causing shock and blood loss.

Nitroglycerin by itself is a very strong explosive, and in its pure form it is extremely shock-sensitive ( that is, physical shock can cause it to explode ), and degrades over time to even more unstable forms.

:" It was believed that the hold of the brainwashing over the cognitive processes of a cult member needed to be broken – or " snapped " as some termed it – by means that would shock or frighten the cultist into thinking again.

The hybrid cell is then stimulated to divide by an electric shock, and when it develops into a blastocyst it is implanted in a surrogate mother.