Sentence examples for a partial shield from inspiring English sources

The major objection of its critics is that while it cannot conceivably work as a total shield against incoming missiles, trying to construct even a partial shield is destabilizing & will lead to a new round in the arms race as the Soviets deploy more offensive weapons to offset any defensive weapons.

At the time, I was living in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, whose surrounding mountain ranges tend to offer some buffer or act as a partial shield against hurricane-force winds, even if they don't offer much protection against the rain.

He needs a reasonable facsimile of the November 2008 black vote outpour to save as many Democratic seats as possible, and serve as a partial shield against the withering non-stop attack on his agenda and his person.

In glacial settings, key points are the inheritance of nuclides accumulated in a rock surface during a previous exposure episode and (partial) shielding of a rock surface after the main deglaciation event, e.g. during phases of glacier readvance.

However, in the event of a radiological or nuclear detonation, it can be expected that a large percentage of exposed victims will have heterogeneous radiation exposure as a function of partial shielding [11] [13]; therefore, PB signatures of TBI may not be predictive or applicable to diagnose radiation exposure in people who have suffered only partial body irradiation.

The same was reported for vvCO, where the crystal structure of the free enzyme shows partial shielding of CuA by Phe260 but a molecular dynamic simulation study revealed phenylalanine flexibility that allows substrate access to CuA. 20 In the case of jrTYR, CuA is already freely accessible in the resting state.

However, in the event a radiation-mass casualty scenario, many victims will have heterogeneous exposure due to partial shielding and it is unknown whether PB gene expression profiles would be useful in predicting the status of partially irradiated individuals.

This effective Debye length, which more accurately captures the charge partial shielding, can be up to 7 times larger at GEO, and as great as 100 times larger at LEO.

Based on the results from the fit of the SANS data, it was found that partial shielding provided by poly((2-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) monomers being incorporated into the micelle shell significantly influenced both the form factor and the structure factor of micelles in the polymer/surfactant solutions.

And hence, it is difficult (at partial shielding) or impossible (at total shielding) to detect this target.

However, it holds only in scenarios where the additional attenuation is not very high (so-called partial shielding).