In the excellent Balance of Terror, Kirk and the enemy captain of a Romulan ship read at a distance each other's next moves, learning to understand the enemy; when they finally speak to each other, the Romulan tells Kirk that, given their similarities, in other circumstances they might have been friends.
Their high strain-at-break provides, however, unique possibilities for applications where impact resistance is important and when combined with a fiber like carbon it can result in engineering composites with an excellent balance in structural mechanical properties and energy absorption.
On the ground the porcupine ambles along and cannot jump; in the trees it climbs slowly but has excellent balance; in the water it swims well.
The opposed-piston design has two major advantages: reciprocating masses move in opposite directions, providing excellent balance; and the poppet valves necessary in other uniflow-scavenged two-stroke-cycle engines are eliminated.
Result of structure activity relationships (SAR) and cassette-dosing evaluation in dogs showed that the hydroxynorephedrine analogue 16 had an excellent balance of in vitro and in vivo potency with pharmacokinetic profiles.
This small base of evidence notwithstanding, Robertson and Stern [ 199] conclude in their review that tiapride and sulpiride are highly recommendable to treat TS in view of their excellent balance of efficacy and tolerability proven over decades in clinical practice.
I think this particular interactive strikes an excellent balance in a potentially tricky area.
The apparent tragedy and freakish ecology of Area X's blight are quite fascinating, and the solitary voice of its post-humanist narrator is both deeply flawed and deeply trustworthy — a difficult and excellent balance in a novel whose world is built seamlessly and whose symbols are rich and dark.
This alloy shows excellent performance in vivo due to the excellent balance between mechanical, physicochemical, and biofunctional properties [ 14].
The nice thing is that it has an excellent balance sheet, low debt, $1.4 billion in cash and only $73 million in debt.
