This is why I prefer the varieties that grow as vines or cordons, not bush tomatoes, the drearily named determinates, which quickly become a thicket of criss-crossing stems.
Zen'ei ikebana masters crossed stems, used even numbers of branches rather than the odd numbers prescribed by tradition, cut leaves into artificial shapes, applied paint to the arrangement, visibly wired the arrangement together, and often included such materials as plastic, glass, and feathers.
The vine motif here differs from the common continuous scroll type in that the stems cross over each other twice on each side, but crossing stems are also seen on the upper north face of the Bewcastle Cross and a cross in the church at Hexham.
All 54 cases of mechanical failure (including modular and custom implants) were salvaged with revision to a larger stem, cross-stem fixation, or new components.
Although an improvement in survival was seen in this series, we recognize the need for novel implant designs in special circumstances, such as short residual periarticular segments, which we have dealt with by designing a custom implant with cross-stem pin fixation [ 6].
As shown in Figure 1(a), for each canonical pseudoknot starting at i and ending at j the recursion decomposes into the pseudoknot itself and the three fragments in-between its two crossing stems.
Cut a small cross into stem end of each plum, and remove pit; set plums aside.
Effect of ion implantation on adhesion of DLC film was studied by cross sectional STEM observation and EDS element analysis.
Figure 1a, b shows the HR-XRD and cross section STEM results for BFO/LSMO thin films on STO substrates, respectively.
In order to study the local oxidation behavior of the coating, cross sectional STEM analyses were performed at regions with low and high GB densities of the same sample after annealing at 900 °C for 60 min (see Fig. 3).
