The purpose of this optimization procedure is to tune the natural vibrating frequencies of the side bumper so that its behaviour with respect to noise, vibration and harshness reaches predefined performance levels.
The hard-won improvements in conditions would be ratcheted back half a decade to their previous level of harshness.
G.O.P. Presidential front-runner and billionaire Donald Trump has taken the harshness to a new level, denigrating Mexicans as "criminals" and "rapists".
And you can make the case that austerity, at least at this level of harshness, is actually counterproductive even in fiscal terms: it depresses growth, so that the debt position becomes worse even if the current budget deficit is reduced.
In the commentary about the recent catastrophic crash of Amazon's cloud computing network, it was hard to miss both an elevated level of harshness and a barely suppressed exultation.
Finally, extensive simulation analysis is conducted for exploring the practicality and efficacy of RFID for the localization of single or multiple users under different levels of environmental harshness.
The measure focuses on caregiver/teacher emotional interactional levels, such as sensitivity, harshness, detachment, permissiveness.
The most shocking thing for me this past year was not the harshness of the current economy or the level of competition for jobs I coveted, but when I realized that I, too, used to view myself as different from and better than people on food stamps.
Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country's drug laws and its levels of drug use.
In low-level menthol cigarettes, the menthol primarily masks harshness, making it easier to begin smoking.
