The polymers return to a pre-defined shape when heated to a certain temperature, and, when damage is detected, an infrared laser sends light through the network to the damaged area, triggers the shape-memory, and commands the area to repair the crack or tear -- regaining up to 96 percent of its original strength.
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The company's shares have been on a tear--up 40%--since releasing first-quarter earnings that were 47% higher than those a year before.
Mr Simpson quite likes to portray himself as a firebrand, ready to tear up many of the no-strike agreements successfully negotiated by Sir Ken during the 1990s in exchange for union recogniton.
Tony Blair's government promised "robust scrutiny" of the deal but backed down while Gazprom threatened to sell its gas in other markets, suggesting to many that it planned to tear up or renegotiate existing long-term gas delivery contracts.
Ms Moore has had to tear up her company's five-year plan and draft a new two-year one instead, focusing on two things: internal reorganisation and innovation.
On other days they would circle parked pick-up trucks, then swoop down and tear off their windscreen wipers.
Like the constant construction in Beijing and Shanghai, Tokyo was on a fast-forward spree of tear-downs and building, clearing the flimsy structures put up hastily after clearing the firebombing rubble.
Police fired tear gas to break up youths attacking cars close to el-Jellaz cemetery, and also at protesters near the interior ministry.
You tear up your knee, and the rest of your non-guaranteed money vanishes along with your playing career.
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E-Poll Chief Executive Gerry Philpott says the press can only build somebody up or tear somebody down so much.
When Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called the move "shabby", the actor said he would tear up his French passport.
But for every successful Yukta or Lara who goes on to tear-drenched smiles as she receives her bouquet and tiara, thousands of other young Indian girls end up humiliated and exploited.
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