In China, a huge number of poor young women work part time selling sex in a large and amorphous sex industry.
But as one of 10 siblings, Rone chose not to bother with an amateur career and left home for Las Vegas, soon becoming part of another large family, one that supports the amorphous boxing industry: the guys who always lose.
What role should the broad and amorphous Internet industry play?
Contrary to science, in industry "amorphous" refers to very small crystal size rather than complete lack of crystal structure.
Companies such as Plastic Logic have fully industrialized OFET technology and demonstrated that amorphous silicon performance and LCD industry typical yield and reliability levels can be achieved with OFETs in a full manufacturing environment.
In the magnetic storage industry ultra-thin amorphous carbon coatings are commonly used to protect read/write head and magnetic media against corrosion and mechanical damage.
I think the perception that industry postdocs are more amorphous (so I'm told) has to do with the perception that industry SEEMS more amorphous to grad students and postdocs who have previously had little or no exposure to industry.
While much of the industry melts into an amorphous goo of panels, it's nice to see creators sticking their necks out to be different.
In an industry dominated by inexpensive amorphous-silicon films with efficiencies of about 10%, Spectrolab's multijunction devices convert 34% of incident solar energy into electricity--a world record.
Water sorption in amorphous solids is interesting to the food industry because of its impact on stability and consumer-expected product behavior [ 1– 3].
