Paradoxically, its surface appears to be shaped by the deformation of the crust and by volcanic activity.
It protects the battery modules inside the vehicle from deformation or damage in the event of a crash.
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The idea of a level playing field of information is ridiculous on its face, since information is defined as a deformation of the level.
Scientists can already study earthquakes from space, in particular through the use of radar to map the deformation of the ground that results when faults rupture.
This new prominence of bodies overwhelmingly depicted their destruction and deformation, inevitably raising the question of how they related to the persons who had once inhabited them.
Given that 17 of the burials were children between five months and 16 years old, it's suspected that the cranial deformation itself was responsible for the deaths.
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But, alas, according to the scientists who excavated the remains, the bones belonged to humans, and are actually evidence of tribal skull deformation being more wide-spread than first thought.
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Takeshita Noboru is hospitalized for treatment of spondylitis deformans, a spinal deformation caused by aging which puts pressure on the nervous system and causes back pain and paralysis in the limbs.
In many kinds of rock, most notably granite, the application of pressure and the resulting deformation of the rock's constituent crystals turn some of the oxygen atoms in those crystals into charge carriers.
The surprisingly sharp topics that arise in interviews (filmed mainly in black-and-white) include eroticism, poverty, mediatized violence, gender equality, gay marriage, the power of advertising, and the deformation of minds and manners by television.
Even if our basic theory is that economy is elastic in response to nominal stress and plastic in response to real stress, a sudden change in rigidity combined with a large nominal shock could cause a very large plastic deformation in the economy.
"Besides life-saving applications in fire and rescue, the potential to record dynamic scenes of a human body could have a variety of other biomedical uses including studying or monitoring breathing, cardiac beat detection and analysis, or measurement of body deformation due to various stresses during exercise, " Ferraro says.
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Unlike large glass mirrors which are subject to the vagaries of humidity, thermal dynamics and constant deformation from gravity itself, liquid mercury which remains molten at room temperature can reflect as much as 75 percent of incoming starlight with little of the fuss associated with large conventional mirrors.
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