In the inversion, two damping constants were used: one controls the smoothness of the velocity image by damping the variations in slowness, and the other controls the smoothness of the anisotropy by damping the two anisotropy coefficients.
The former Enron officials said that the company swelled the reserves in hopes of damping the political firestorm.
It has a chromatic range of four octaves and, unlike other dulcimers, a pedal mechanism for damping the strings.
In some cases drug makers, rather than activating the toll-like receptors, hope to block the receptors as a way of damping the immune system.
He suggested that Chinese officials might consider further damping the economy by reinstating or strengthening procedural limits on investments in certain industries.
Damping the impact of the rebate is the fact that the I.R.S. views the rebates as distributions that are to be taxed at ordinary income tax rates.
Falling interest rates in the United States have exerted a powerful force on currency values by damping the appeal of dollar-denominated assets.
Johnson's trademark "skittering" guitar style – metronomically strumming with his right hand while alternately pressing and damping the chords with his left – is as distinctive as Bo Diddley's.
Before a packed court, Mr. Vaxevanis and his lawyers portrayed him as the target of a politically motivated campaign aimed at damping the public anger at Greek officials.
Not only were disease spores not blowing in from the next row, they were no longer coming from the next farmer's field either or the next or the next, rapidly damping the spread of the disease on a grand scale.
That said, if the chancellor increases stamp duty, a tax on property sales, as he has before, he may help the MPC by damping the housing market a little.And on the supply side?
