In this paper, recent developments in ferroelectric materials, advancements in poling and characterization techniques as well as materials considerations for integration with microelectronics in MEMS structures are briefly discussed.
Far better, Greeks thought, to trust in "fakelaki" (the little envelope) and "rousfeti" (a political favor for votes) than confuse morality with material advancement.
Tolstoy formed a temperance society to promote Russians' spiritual and material advancement against the power of the state and the church.
Endowed by nature with fertile land, abundant minerals, and a hospitable climate, and endowed by its founders with democratic and pragmatic approach to politics, the United States has for centuries provided a ready platform for creativity, hard work, and material advancement.
What Felix has in mind is a programme of moral and social reformation by which the working class will cease to hanker after social and material advancement and become instead a kind of moral yeast, capable of transforming society simply by being, to use the parlance of the day, "respectable".
And in plays such as Peter Nichols's The National Health, David Storey's The Contractor, Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business and Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party you find potent metaphors for a nation still plagued by class and ill at ease with itself in the face of material advancement.
But more importantly, it just seems impossibly depressing — a surrender to trends that have deprived mothers of partners, children of fathers, and working class Americans of the opportunities for material advancement and personal flourishing that this country is supposed to afford.
They are most interested in material advancement for themselves, they are distrustful of others' seemingly good intentions, and they view others primarily as competitors for scarce positions.
Ecological and human sustainability calls for conscious efforts to balance human inner development with technological and material advancement.
The imperial culture offered a route to political and material advancement, and this led to the formation of Hellenistic elites among the Jewish population.
