And a response is 50 percent shrinkage.

Also, due to the rapid solidification, metastable phases can be present in the deposits.

Despite this massive shrinkage, the reality on the ground is unchanged.

Lava is the molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling.

Because of this, when a peritectic composition solidifies it does not show the lamellar structure that is found with eutectic solidification.

The recent shrinkage in the flow of development resources adversely affected the socio economic situation of the developing countries.

A shrinkage of the market would be effective, since without profitable places to sell the product there would be no incentive to produce and cultivate it.

The Fund has given special consideration to measures which strengthen the competitive positions of commodities facing market shrinkage owing to increased use of synthetics and substitutes.

The good news from Cushing's disease is that hippocampal shrinkage and memory impairment is at least partially reversible over several years after correction of the excess cortisol.

That is still far below the replacement rate of 2.1, but higher fertility, together with successful measures to reduce male mortality, has slowed the pace of population shrinkage.

The International Monetary Fund s latest forecast predicts that the world s advanced economies will contract 0.3 in 2009 the first such shrinkage since the end of World War II.

While this simultaneous shrinkage constitutes no short or medium term threat to the Fund apos s financial stability, it doubly compromises its current ability to approve new projects.

The root cause of all these developments is Europe s population shrinkage. The demographic time bomb that economic analysts have been discussing for a decade or more is now exploding.

VIENNA The rapid shrinkage of Arctic ice cover is one of the most dramatic changes in nature currently occurring anywhere on the planet, with profound environmental and economic implications.

It was collected for the first time by James Dewar in 1899 and published with the title Sur la solidification de l'hydrogène in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 7th series, vol.18, Oct. 1899.

As the dramatic shrinkage of the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and the Dead Sea illustrate, it now requires preserving scarce natural resources and ensuring their equitable distribution among conflicting needs.

Isn t it possible, then, that rather than causing a Great Depression, significant shrinkage of the financial sector, particularly if facilitated by an improved regulatory structure, might actually enhance efficiency and growth?

The sub prime mortgage loan problem triggered a drop in some financial institutions key lines of business, particularly their opaque but extremely profitable derivatives businesses. Some shrinkage of the industry is inevitable.

One should also bear in mind that as a traditionally big international road transporter Bulgaria sustains significant losses due to the abrupt shrinkage in the total transit road transport through the area.

Blue Gene L was the first supercomputer ever to run over 100 TFLOPS sustained on a real world application, namely a three dimensional molecular dynamics code (ddcMD), simulating solidification (nucleation and growth processes) of molten metal under high pressure and temperature conditions.

If the ice cover simultaneously shrinks and gets thinner, then the shrinkage in area is first steady but then accelerates towards the end, when the remaining ice becomes ever thinner and more vulnerable to melting. This is what I fear is happening now.

In addition to the money tied up by acquiring inventory, inventory also brings associated costs for warehouse space, for utilities, and for insurance to cover staff to handle and protect it from fire and other disasters, obsolescence, shrinkage (theft and errors), and others.

18. Restructuring of the economic and social sectors should not entail a reduction in the financial resources allocated for operational activities. The shrinkage of those resources and the failure of the developed countries to honour their commitments under Agenda 21 were a source of concern for the developing countries.

Indeed, for year after year and session after session, we have been constantly seized of such great topics as the deterioration in terms of trade, the buttressing of protectionism, the debt crisis, the continuing deterioration of the environment, the growing shrinkage of public development assistance, population growth, and reforms in structural adjustment.

I had figured out the exact amount of shrinkage I achieved going from a wax master to a bronze master and blown this up big enough to make a 3D lithography master of this, which I will polish, then I will send to the mold maker and then I will have it done in bronze.