The monolithic and composite samples were microindented to create flaws of controlled size on the surface, and were then tested in 3-point flexure to obtain the matrix cracking stress.
The E.P.A. found that all seventeen atrazine studies, including Hayes's, suffered from methodological flaws — contamination of controls, variability in measurement end points, poor animal husbandry — and asked Syngenta to fund a comprehensive experiment that would produce more definitive results.
His "reckless" nature is presented as an out-of-control character flaw: throughout his life, Nylen was driven to perform colossally stupid acts, large and small, including endangering his platoon through cowboy antics.
[ 10- 13] Furthermore, many studies are flawed by a lack of control group.
The low risk in the comparison group may be real, the result of chance, or due to an as yet unclear systematic design or analysis flaw of all included randomized controlled trials.
A teenager's psychological flaws are typically blamed on society, bad parenting or out-of-control hormones.
Complicated, flawed, delusional, violent, transgressive and out of control, these are women seeking retribution and taking matters into their own hands.
This image of the white-collar Italian mafioso is a long way from the received idea of mobsters, particularly in American cinema, as disorderly, out of control and fatally flawed.
The merits and flaws of two different control strategies of S-CAES were analyzed.
Perhaps most critically, an anticorruption campaign, however flawed, has proved sufficient to prevent corruption from spiraling out of control.
