One of the knocks against Facebook is that it is a somewhat closed, proprietary platform.
One of the fastest growing user demographics of the social networking site are people who are over the age of 40, many of whom carefully made a choice to join what they perceived was a somewhat closed online community.
For example, in a somewhat closed, static system (e.g. a biofilm in a mud puddle or in the well of a microtitre plate), signals produced by a large, biofilm cell aggregate may induce a quorum-sensing response in neighboring bacteria that are not part of the aggregate.
In regular therapy, even when I'm completely at ease, I can reflect now that I probably exhibit a somewhat closed-off form of body language legs or arms crossed, often looking at something arbitrary in the room rather than engaging the therapist's gaze.
Make sure the paddle is somewhat closed(or facing downwards at an angle), and remains that way throughout the stroke.
It is somewhat closed now, but underneath the tannins lies a fresh, elegant wine with classic Margaux aromas of flowers, cassis, minerals and earth.
And although her novels can feel somewhat closed, and tend to repeat themselves in theme, her prose is full of variety.
Many of the books describe the north Welsh as somewhat closed and not very willing to divulge all to anyone who wanders in.
Domaine Vincent Paris, $32, *** St.-Joseph 2009 Deep, rich and somewhat closed, but lots of character with aromas and flavors of violets, olives, spices and oak.
"Google will open up the somewhat closed approach that Nest used to date, to better integrate with interoperable smart home solutions that have entered the market in the last year, such as SmartThings, AT&T Digital Life, and Revolv," said Gillett.
In this concert, he opens up his somewhat closed public persona to interrogate some musical aspects of his own heritage, performing three rarely heard twentieth-century works on Jewish themes — sonatas by Ernest Bloch and Alexander Veprik, and the "Suite Dansée" of Alexander Krein — between which the pianist will read selections by the Yiddish poet Yitzhak Leybush Peretz.
