It is found that the damping, on one hand, softens the abrupt transitions from one behavior to another, typical of undamped systems, on the other, affects the bifurcations of the nonlinear modes causing some of them to completely disappear and leaving others largely unaffected.
Now, all I can think about is how those rough hands softened me time and time again.
It's laid on a billowing pillow of mash, which is there to take your hand and soften the whack of salty smoked fish.
It's a shame, though, that Sawers wasn't on hand to soften the flogging BP received from US courts after its Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 that killed 11 people.
("A bunch of flowers, he thought, held in the hand would soften the awkwardness of meeting and the usual things that had to be said," writesVirginia Woolf in "The Years").
So Barack Obama was right, after the June election when the protests were still young, to step cautiously into Iran's argument, in the hope forlorn, as it turned out that his conciliatory hand might soften the regime towards both its own people and its supposed adversaries abroad.Last weekend, however, the protests came of age.
Use some hand cream to soften your hands.
If you can't get quite the colour you want, blend colours using the warmth of your hands to soften the wax.
For a very basic, solid-colour bead, roll it about it your hands to soften it up, roll it into a ball, then poke a cocktail stick through the middle to make a hole.
