First, the colonies, like most frontier agricultural communities, were plainly exploited by the older countries both as a source of low-priced raw materials and as a market for manufactured wares and, like other frontier lands, they resented the fact.
As a revolutionary construction material, ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) has been extensively studied in the last two decades and one research interest has been focused on preparing UHPC with low-priced raw materials or industrial by-products.
Iron ore tailings are a common type of hazardous solid waste in China and have caused serious environmental problems, and the high cost of producing ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) provides the motivation to look for low-priced raw materials.
Started in 1940 by two partners named Bob and Jack, B&J began by selling low-priced Army surplus material, a far cry from the silk cut velvets it would one day supply for "Phantom of the Opera," the paintable nylons for "The Lion King" and the sequins that now take the stage nightly for "Chicago".
Our design of composite material from low-priced metal oxides was successful towards reduction of nitro-aromatic compounds.
Based on the magnetoelastic effect, this study develops a non-contact strain sensor consisting of a magnetoelastic film by using low-priced and highly-sensitive Metglas 2826MB (Fe40Ni38Mo4B18) amorphous ribbons as the strain measure material.
Other overriding advantages of edible coatings are that they reduce packaging waste, they are environment-friendly, and they are low-priced [ 76, 77] when compared to films, which are synthetic packaging materials.
However, caution is essential as, paradoxically, reducing the price may provide a disincentive to stock low-priced generics at the point of purchase in favour of higher-priced branded products [ 23].
The sample of the 15 medicines varied from high-priced medicines (mainly in oncology) with ex-factory prices (official hospital list prices) per unit of several hundreds of Euros to low-priced medicines around 0.25 Euro (in cardiology).
Phillipson (1992) claimed: "English has both material resources (trained teachers, teacher trainers, teaching materials, literature, dictionaries, multinational publishers, computers and software, BBC English by Radio and TV, low-priced books schemes, etc).
