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Then lacquer had been applied to rigidify them in awful perfection.

The researchers explained that the stiff, straight, long chains of saturated fatty acids rigidify the lipid moleculesand cause them to separate from the rest of the cell's membrane.

The insight of this 2-Day program is to rigidify meticulously on various formulations of Green concepts relating to both Chemistry and Engineering point of view.

43) The constructs and measures in psychology rigidify its individualistic professional cosmology.

Ideologies dismember and universalise belief systems, concoct absolutist dogmatic doctrines, link every aspect of life to a larger abstract goal, stagnate and rigidify humanity and impede progress.

It threatens her possibilities for intimacy, for the expansive embrace of reciprocal affective communication and relief, a body schematic communion that does not recoil in phobic horror and rigidify in hatred.

And yet we also know that theories, values, and all the artifacts of human minds do age and rigidify, becoming obsolete, becoming affliction.

This substance, used to stabilise and rigidify plastics, is found in a range of ordinary consumer goods (kettles, water bottles, food cans, thermal paper used for sales receipts, etc) although it is known to be an endocrine disrupter having a similar effect to the female hormone oestrogen.

Will the Bologna Process rigidify such hierarchies or make them more liquid?

He argues that a study of Vijnanabhiksu draws attention to the writings of a medieval author who self-consciously flouted the traditional boundaries between schools that the writings of the doxographers served to rigidify. The volume also serves to correct those who blindly follow the Orientalists in judging Vijnanabhiksu's oeuvre a heterogeneous mish-mash, just as it challenges the assumptions of modern scholars who wish to pigeon-hole Vijnanabhiksu as a representative exclusively of a single philosophical school, as Nicholson criticizes T S.

The existing paradigm serves to rigidify decision-making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.