Doing that, Mr. DeCanio said, allows the patching material to adhere better in the crack.
If the wall is painted, wash and sand it, since mortar adheres better to rough, clean surfaces.
Strictly speaking it's just a way of making the buds adhere better to the ear to avoid endlessly having to poke them back in while exercising.
Mr. Graf boils his bagels in a lye water sodium hydroxide solution, which makes the outside sticky, allowing toppings to adhere better.
Adding metallic nanotubes to plastic, for example, changes it from an insulator to a conductor -- allowing an automaker, for instance, to use electrically charged paint that adheres better to conducting surfaces.
One reason for that is the revolution currently sweeping corporate travel departments, where traveling employees are being encouraged -- and pressed -- to adhere better to travel-budget policies intended to allow planners to negotiate prices using volume discounts, advance purchasing, online booking and other cost-saving techniques.
The information gleaned can be used to redirect therapy to make it easier for patients to live with a disorder, or to encourage them to adhere better to prescribed treatments, or, as might occur with advanced cancer, to decide to forgo further disease-directed treatment.
This is consistent with previous observations that adults and females adhere better to clinician's instructions and consequently may maintain better oral hygiene [9, 16, 23].
"Spike started off as a personal project to help myself adhere better to my medication after reaching critical times in my diabetic life," Alame tells me.
Results demonstrated that RaSMCs adhered better on PHBHHx containing 12% HHx (12%HHx) although they proliferated better on 20%HHx-containing PHBHHx films (20%HHx).
