With this cover, psychologists went far beyond "psychological torture": they oversaw waterboarding, joint-distorting stress positions and the use of military dogs that lunged at and bit prisoners.
When the adhesive is relatively soft, the torsional mode shapes at the lap joint are slightly distorted.
However, in either case, statistical power is lost and the joint distribution may be distorted.
There is also independent evidence that normalization procedures distort the joint distribution of the true expression signals quite dramatically, even affecting their marginal distributions [ 6].
The inconsistencies in the signs of the estimates and the significance of the predictors could result from the non-random fashion in which cases are dropped for the complete case analysis which may distort the joint distribution among the variables.
"I was hoping I could do to get on track for this race, but the double fracture of the ninth and 10th ribs and distorting the shoulder joint injury forced me to raise the white flag for the first time in my career for Mugello.
We therefore feel compelled to establish the basic facts of the case, many of which have been distorted in the media, in this joint statement".
In the BWYV pseudoknot, the structure in the joint part of the stem 1−loop 3 region and stem 2−loop 1 region is "distorted" and an expected base pair with coaxial stacking in the secondary structure is therefore absent.
Ms. Scofield, a former ballet dancer with a proclivity for distorting classical vocabulary, writhes and twists her torso at every opportunity, rising on the tips of her toes, breaking harshly at the joints and splaying her fingers like claws.
In a joint statement, the groups warned that, in the absence of bipartisanship, "uncertainty will cause essential energy investments to be deferred or distorted, to the ultimate cost of us all".
