While cellulose is crystalline, strong, and resistant to hydrolysis, hemicellulose has a random, amorphous structure with little strength.

While there is no documentation for the persistent rumor, based upon Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, that sawdust was used as a filler in sausage, cellulose derived from sawdust was and is used for sausage casings.

While cellulose is a compilation of glucose monomers, they form unbranched, long strands instead of coils like starch or glycogen.

While biodiesel and bio-ethanol production so far only use parts of a plant, i. e. oil, sugar, starch or cellulose, BtL production can gasify and utilize the entire plant.

While nitrate is much less toxic than ammonia, levels over 30 ppm of nitrate can inhibit growth, impair the immune system and cause stress in some aquatic species.

While not directly toxic to fish life, like ammonia, nitrate can have indirect effects on fish if it contributes to this eutrophication.

While the sulfide is available in the surrounding sediment, produced by other bacteria from dead microalgae that sank down to the sea bottom, the nitrate comes from the above seawater.

While ANFO accounted for a majority of bombs with of ammonium nitrate being used in 1973 alone, Frangex was preferred to ignite the primary explosive.

While this position would bring initial economic benefits, in the long term the consequences were dire ; although the price of salitre ( sodium nitrate ) had risen due to European demand, the limitation of salitre exports to Germany would mean that, apart from losing a valuable market, Chile would also lose their natural monopoly as a result of the development of synthetic salitre.

While stocks of Nile Tilapia in the lake are now low, the decline of this species has been mirrored by the success of another, the African Lungfish which was introduced to the lake in 1974 and which now provides the majority of fish output from the lake.

While the populations of the eastern and Asian stocks appear stable, the population of the western stock, particularly along the Aleutian Islands, was estimated to have fallen by 70 – 80 % since the 1970s.

While many technology stocks were eventually destroyed in the dot-com crash in the early 2000s, the stock prices of the video game publishers recovered as a group ; several of the larger publishers such as EA and Take2 achieved historical highs in the mid-2000s.

While traditional backtesting was done by hand, this was usually only performed on human-selected stocks, and was thus prone to prior knowledge in stock selection.

While the specific definitions of each category vary with market conditions, large cap stocks generally have market capitalizations of at least $ 10 billion, small cap stocks have market capitalizations below $ 2 billion, and micro cap stocks have market capitalizations below $ 300 million.

While its subjects were wide-ranging, SatireWire is perhaps best remembered for its business humor, including the 2001 story " Sally Struthers Begs You to Save the Dot-Coms ", written in response to the collapse of Internet stocks, " Remaining U. S. CEOs Make a Break for It ", about a band of roving CEOs who plunder their way to the Mexican border, and " Religious Merger Creates 900 Million Hinjews ".

While it is common for a postal service to add print runs as stocks are used up by the public, it is also the usual practice to only use a given design for a limited period of time so as to discourage forgery, and then to destroy the printing plates.

While studying at Wharton School of Business, Rick Yune worked as an intern on Wall Street trading stocks during summer 1992.

While the US Arsenal at Rock Island was the leader in converting the existing stocks of M1917 series guns over to 1917A1 configuration, other arsenals took part.

While the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) mostly only categorizes whole species or subspecies, assessing the global risk of extinction, in some cases it also assesses the risks to stocks and populations, especially to preserve genetic diversity.

While expressing the will of " not copy the western capitalist systems with their drawbacks and inequities ", the 10th Point of the Proclamation argued in favor of privatization ( expressed ideally under the form of " distributing the stocks equally among the workers, the state keeping only those funds that may ensure the control of the activity ") and immediate investments in the public sector ( as a means to prevent the consequences of inflation ).

While running the factory in St. Petersburg, he asked his older brother, Robert Nobel to explore southern Russia for wood to make gun stocks for the tsar.

While it is theoretically possible for a trend to increase indefinitely, under normal circumstances, even stocks moving drastically will eventually slow down, lest they go up to infinity or down to nothing.

While CEO of Verizon in 2009, Seidenberg earned a total compensation of $ 17, 012, 407, which included a base salary of $ 2, 100, 000, a cash bonus of $ 2, 953, 125, stocks granted of $ 11, 079, 000, no options granted, and other compensation of $ 880, 282.

While this did have a diminishing effect on Ottoman ammunition stocks, the failure to close the land routes meant that it was not decisive.

While customers are protected for cash and most types of securities, such as notes, stocks, bonds, and certificates of deposit, other items, such as commodity or futures contracts, are not covered.

While CEO of CVS Caremark in 2009, Thomas M. Ryan earned a total compensation of $ 16, 231, 292, which included a base salary of $ 1, 400, 000, a cash bonus of $ 3, 512, 526, stocks granted of $ 6, 425, 007, and options granted of $ 4, 625, 000.

While CEO of Merck in 2008, Richard T. Clark earned a total compensation of $ 17, 320, 938, which included a base salary of $ 1, 783, 334, a cash bonus of $ 2, 244, 510, stocks granted of $ 6, 811, 125, options granted of $ 6, 408, 300, and other compensation of $ 73, 669.

While setup costs are high, once ready to produce, injection molding produces stocks for less than the cost of the cheapest wood stocks.

While some suppression and some denial are not only necessary but healthy, the worker's clinical knowledge must determine how these defenses are being used, what healthy shifts in defensive adaptation are indicated, and when efforts at bringing about change can be most effectively timed.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

While the arithmetic mean is often used to report central tendencies, it is not a robust statistic, meaning that it is greatly influenced by outliers.

While most alphabets have letters composed of lines ( linear writing ), there are also exceptions such as the alphabets used in Braille, fingerspelling, and Morse code.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

While resistant to most beta lactam antibiotics commonly used for skin infections, it remains sensitive to alternative antibiotics, e. g., clindamycin ( Cleocin ), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ( Bactrim ), and doxycycline ( unlike hospital-acquired MRSA that may only be sensitive to vancomycin IV ).

While scholars wanting to learn Greek used to employ learned Greeks to teach them directly, the Aldine editions, edited by Greek scholars, allowed many scholars across Europe to study Greek.

While the 68000 family has a 32-bit design, the 68000 used in several early models is generally referred to as 16-bit.

While the term " Afghani " is typically used in reference to the unit of Afghan currency, some use the term to indicate a person or thing of, from, or related to Afghanistan, e. g., a citizen of Afghanistan.

While popular during the 1950s, these terms are infrequently used today.

While hunting they used small watercrafts called Baidarkas and during travel they used their large Baidaras.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

While most foods are harvested during the autumn, foods particularly associated with the season include pumpkins ( which are integral parts of both Thanksgiving and Halloween ) and apples, which are used to make the seasonal beverage apple cider.

While not without criticism ( e. g. by Neusner, 1998 ), the Steinsaltz edition is widely used throughout Israel, the United States and the world.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

While modern Roman Catholic scholars openly recognize the Greek additions as clearly being additions to the text, the Book of Esther is used twice in commonly used sections of the Catholic Lectionary.

" While the document itself is not in any way actual law, it is used by the town council, board of adjustment, and other committees to guide decision making as to what types of development are appropriate.

While both and combination are commonly implemented as a way of breaking the execution of a console application, they are also used for similar effect in integrated development environments.

While early German tanks, Stuka dive-bombers and concentrated forces were used in the Polish campaign, the majority of the battle was conventional infantry and artillery based warfare and most Luftwaffe action was independent of the ground campaign.

While proven useful in the past, barbiturates are no longer commonly used in psychiatry ; thus the option of either benzodiazepines or ECT.