For situations where lattice holding together the atoms in an object is able to flow, contract, expand, or otherwise change shape, the theories of continuum mechanics describe the way forces affect the material.
A good chunk of the rest flows to contract research organizations like Quintiles Transnational in Durham, N.C. and Covance in Princeton, N.J., which test and market drugs.
A good chunk of the rest flows to contract research organizations, such as Quintiles Transnational in Durham, North Carolina, and Covance in Princeton, New Jersey, that test and market drugs.
You'd expect trade flows to contract, of course, given the global recession.
While he did not specify what water deliveries would be adequate, Mr. Birmingham and other Westlands officials had expressed comfort with the option most closely studied, which could ensure that the district gets more than 70 percent of the maximum flows that it contracts for.
We begin by considering the orifice restriction case: as a fluid stream passes through a sharp edge "thin" orifice restriction, the flow contracts to an area smaller than that of the orifice itself.
Net flows into India contracted by nearly a third, to $23.7 billion.
As the PCT allocations have flowed into contract and commissioning rounds, organisations across the service are coming to grips with this reality.
I.B.M. gets about half its revenue from annuity-like payments flowing from contracts it may have inked months or years ago for services like consulting or technology outsourcing.
In his manifesto Mr. Hunt-Hendrix had something specific to say about drumming, suggesting that his new stripe of black metal trades the genre's traditional blast beat for a burst beat, "a blast beat that ebbs, flows, expands and contracts," replacing "death and atrophy with life and hypertrophy".
