Sentence examples for less impervious from inspiring English sources

The keyboard has a qwerty grid of touch-sensitive letters that are less impervious to dust, dirt and moisture than other Palm keyboards.

Conversion was lower in areas close to waterways, where there was less impervious surface, and also differed among land uses (highest in agricultural and industrial).

Food is no less impervious to fashion than any other part of our cultural life, and so it follows that we view cooking differently depending on the age in which we live.

For all catchments, greater forest land cover and less impervious cover appeared to be more important drivers than stormwater BMP spatial pattern, and caused lower total, stormflow, and baseflow runoff volume; lower maximum discharge during typical precipitation events; and lower runoff volume during an extreme precipitation event.

During those years, the land was less impervious as compared to the existing land use.

"Kings and Heroes" can incorporate the legendary Rustam — a virtual Iranian superhero, right down to the magical suit he wore, impervious to all sorts of weaponry — and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, overthrown in the 1979 revolution and rather less impervious.

Typhoid is also becoming a problem and the rainy season brings cold, flu, and other ill-health to people who are less than impervious to the threat.

To assess the variability in bumble bee flower visits between allotment gardens along the gradient the 16 sites were divided into three groups; periurban (five sites surrounded by less than 10% impervious surface within 300 m), intermediate (six sites surrounded by 11 20% impervious surface within 300 m) and urban sites (five sites surrounded by 25 53% impervious surface within 300 m).

The studies reveal that the presence of passive films on HDG makes the HZ layer more impervious and less soluble in the test electrolyte.

Overall, the riparian bird community is shifting toward urban dwelling, resident species that are characteristic of riparian sites with less water and more impervious surface.

Higher sensible heat flux (H) and lower ETa in the urban areas are possibly due to less vegetation cover, an impervious surface, rapid drainage, and the heat island effect of cities.