Depending upon mission profile, the structural subsystem might need to withstand loads imparted by entry into the atmosphere of another planetary body, and landing on the surface of another planetary body.

Bridge maintenance consisting of a combination of structural health monitoring and testing.

This definition stresses the fact that human languages can be described as closed structural systems consisting of rules that relate particular signs to particular meanings.

While at Yale, Altman's Nobel Prize work came with the analysis of the catalytic properties of the ribozyme RNase P. RNase P is a ribonucleoprotein particle consisting of both a structural RNA molecule and one ( in prokaryotes ) or more ( in eukaryotes ) proteins.

To support the tower ’ s record heights and slim footprint, he developed the “ buttressed core ” structural system, consisting of a hexagonal core reinforced by three buttresses that form a Y shape.

The largest faults separate rocks with different ages and structural histories, and subdivide Victoria into three main structural rankings consisting of twofold belts ( Delamerian and Lachlan ), two terranes in the Lachlan Fold Belt ( Whitelaw and Benambra ), and ten structural zones ( Glenelg, Grampians-Stavely, Stawell, Bendigo, Melbourne, Tabberabbera, Omeo, Deddick, Kuark, Mallacoota ).

* Heterogeneity ( disambiguation ), links relating to objects or systems consisting of multiple items having a large number of structural variations

T. maritima was selected as a structural genomics target based on its relatively small genome consisting of 1, 877 genes and the hypothesis that the proteins expressed by a thermophilic bacterium would be easier to crystallize.

A government deficit can be thought of as consisting of two elements, structural and cyclical.

According to Luciano Floridi, " informational structural realism " is a variant of structural realism that supports an ontological commitment to a world consisting of the totality of informational objects dynamically interacting with each other.

This practice is used widely in Vietnam to build farm houses consisting of a wooden structural frame, a bamboo roof frame, and bamboo with mud mixed with rice hay for the walls.

All classes of enoyl-CoA isomerases belong to a family of enzymes, the hydratase / isomerase or crotonase superfamily, and when examined with x-ray crystallography, exhibit a common structural feature of the family, the N-terminal core with a spiral fold composed of four turns, each turn consisting of two beta-sheets and one alpha-helix.

Protein are frequently described as consisting from several structural units.

" A bent is a structural support, like a truss, consisting of two posts, a tie beam and two rafters.

The machine was envisioned as consisting of as few as eight different types of components ; four logic elements that send and receive stimuli and four mechanical elements used to provide a structural skeleton and mobility.

One of Sullivan's primary concerns was the development of an architectural symbolism consisting of simple geometric, structural forms and organic ornamentation.

The geometry of the lute belly is relatively complex, involving a system of barring in which braces are placed perpendicular to the strings at specific lengths along the overall length of the belly, the ends of which are angled quite precisely to abut the ribs on either side for structural reasons.

Traditional spectroscopic methods such as infrared spectroscopy, optical rotation, UV / VIS spectroscopy provide relatively nonspecific structural information but remain in use for specific classes of compounds.

On the one hand, agricultural funds the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union ( CAP ) is spread across more countries ( the Eastern Europe countries have a significant agricultural sector ), on the other, the structural and cohesion funds have declined inevitably due to the Spanish economic success ( since their income has progressed strongly in absolute terms ) and due to the incorporation of less developed countries, lowers the average income per capita ( or GDP per capita ), so that Spanish regions relatively less developed, have come to be in the European average or even above it.

Van der Waals forces are relatively weak compared to covalent bonds, but play a fundamental role in fields as diverse as supramolecular chemistry, structural biology, polymer science, nanotechnology, surface science, and condensed matter physics.

White iron is too brittle for use in many structural components, but with good hardness and abrasion resistance and relatively low cost, it finds use in such applications as the wear surfaces ( impeller and volute ) of slurry pumps, shell liners and lifter bars in ball mills and autogenous grinding mills, balls and rings in coal pulverisers, and the teeth of a backhoe's digging bucket ( although cast medium-carbon martensitic steel is more common for this application ).

Beyond the well-known structural legacies of the Pythagorean scale, and the related mathematical developments it upheld to define western classical music, relatively little is understood about the precise character of music during this period ; we do know, however, that it left, as so often, a strong mark on the culture of Rome.

In a high-pressure inflatable, structural limbs like pillars and arches are built out of a tough, flexible material and then inflated at a relatively high pressure.

The relatively high preservation of cortical metabolism in this patient defines the first functional correlate of clinical – pathological reports associating permanent unconsciousness with structural damage to these regions.

The method of mechanics of materials is limited to very simple structural elements under relatively simple loading conditions.

The requirement of relatively small training sets has also been cited as an advantage to avoid overfitting to existing structural data.

Despite community-wide efforts in structural genomics, the output of experimentally determined protein structures — typically by time-consuming and relatively expensive X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy — is lagging far behind the output of protein sequences.

On 16 May 1968 the 22 storey residential tower Ronan Point in the London Borough of Newham collapsed when a relatively small gas explosion on the 18th floor caused a structural wall panel to be blown away from the building.

He describes the structural characteristics of California-Yuman music, including that of Pomo, Miwak, Luiseno, Catalineno, and Gabrielino, and the Yuman tribes, including, Mohave, Yuman, Havasupai, Maricopa, as using the rise in almost all songs, a relaxed nonpulsating vocal technique ( like European classical music ), a relatively large amount of isorhythmic material, some isorhythmic tendencies, simple rhythms, pentatonic scales without semitones, an average melodic range of an octave, sequence, and syncopated figures such as a sixteenth-note, eight-note, sixteenth-note figure.

A movement is a section, " a major structural unit perceived as the result of the coincidence of relatively large numbers of structural phenomena.

Until relatively recently, structural steel connections were either welded or riveted.

Because imaging procedures are expensive and relatively inaccessible to most patients, diagnosis of FAS is not frequently made via structural impairments, except for microcephaly.

In his book Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic, James Gilligan defines structural violence as " the increased rates of death and disability suffered by those who occupy the bottom rungs of society, as contrasted with the relatively lower death rates experienced by those who are above them.

Although most of the figures mentioned above are from either cadaver studies or investigations using models, they highlight the relatively large load the plantar fascia is subjected to while contributing to the structural integrity of the foot.

Following on from the work of Kelly, Erikson, Tajfel and others Weinreich ’ s Identity Structure Analysis ( ISA ), is ‘ a structural representation of the individual ’ s existential experience, in which the relationships between self and other agents are organised in relatively stable structures over time … with the emphasis on the socio-cultural milieu in which self relates to other agents and institutions ’ ( Weinreich and Saunderson, ( eds ) 2003, p1 ).

The development and widespread use of structural steel and later reinforced concrete allowed relatively small columns to support large loads and the exterior walls of buildings were no longer required for structural support.

Although it does have its structural regularities, Trasianka is relatively variable and presents rather a linguistic continuum between Belarusian and Russian than a discrete linguistic system.

A frame is a stable structural combination of both bodies maintained through the dancers ' arms and / or legs.

Remaining economic challenges include reducing fiscal deficits and inflation, maintaining stable external balances, and completing structural reforms of the tax system, health care, and local government financing.

It is the lowest rate of unemployment that a stable economy can expect to achieve, seeing as some frictional and structural unemployment is inevitable.

Although the nucleosome is a very stable protein-DNA complex, it is not static and has been shown to undergo a number of different structural re-arrangements including nucleosome sliding and DNA site exposure.

A series of large privatizations, the stability fostered by the start of Turkey ’ s EU accession negotiations, strong and stable growth, and structural changes in the banking, retail, and telecommunications sectors have all contributed to the rise in foreign investment.

The government combines a rigorous and stable microeconomic policy with wide-ranging structural and regulatory reforms.

The products are very stable and some offer greater structural strength than typical wood building materials.

The structure does not have to be airtight to retain structural integrity — as long as the pressurization system that supplies internal pressure replaces any air leakage, the structure will remain stable.

Political experimentation in providing these residents with semi-permanent housing and structural support, ranging from Section 8 housing * to Community Development Block Grant programs *, have in many cases eased the transition of low-income residents into stable housing and employment.

Structural engineers ensure that buildings and bridges are built to be strong enough and stable enough to resist all appropriate structural loads ( e. g., gravity, wind, snow, rain, seismic ( earthquake ), earth pressure, temperature, and traffic ) in order to prevent or reduce loss of life or injury.

A frame is a stable structural combination of both bodies maintained through the dancers ' arms and / or legs, and allows the leader to transmit body movement to the follower, and for the follower to suggest ideas to the leader.

The Fort Ross Chapel collapsed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake but much of the original structural woodwork remained and it was re-erected in 1916, but retained the appearance of the American ranch-period modifications when it was used as a stable.

As the debt pile grew, it became increasingly obvious the government's structural budget deficit was simply not compatible with a low inflation fixed exchange rate – either the government had to start earning as much as it spent, or it had to start ( inflationary ) printing of money ( and thus abandoning the fixed exchange rate as it would not be able to borrow the needed amounts of US dollars to keep the exchange rate stable ).

While a lot of progress has been made in achieving FedNor's objectives, communities in Northern and rural Ontario continue to face the ongoing structural challenges that necessitate a stable, long-term regional development effort.

Safe and stable stream crossings can accommodate wildlife and protect stream health while reducing expensive erosion and structural damage.

The Vancouver hip hop band Rascalz quite unexpectedly found themselves at the centre of a sequence of events which gave Canadian hip hop an unprecedented level of media attention, leading the Canadian music and broadcasting industries to make a number of structural changes which would ultimately give hip hop musicians a more stable and commercially visible platform going into the 21st century.

Kinematic determinacy can be loosely used to classify an arrangement of structural members as a structure ( stable ) instead of a mechanism ( unstable ).

Framing, in construction known as light-frame construction, is a building technique based around vertical structural members, usually called studs, which provide a stable frame to which interior and exterior wall coverings are attached, and covered by a roof made of horizontal ceiling joists and sloping rafters ( or pre-fabricated roof trusses ).