Fracture toughness of bulk materials is a topic of classical measurements, but that of thin films, especially hard and superhard thin films, is a different matter owing to specimen dimensions (thickness) and lack of convincing test procedure.
Race matters because owing to historical residential segregation, neighborhood networks in black and Latino communities don't have the wealth to finance good public schools to prepare students for college.
For example, greater production of organic matter, perhaps owing to an increased influx of nutrients related to the colonization of landmasses by rooted plants, may have made continental seas more susceptible to anoxia.
Only in our own time have stories about the Far North started to matter again, owing to a twist no Victorian reader, writer, or explorer could ever have foreseen.
But it's not a matter of owing Hagel more than Rice, which in my view Obama does, either.
In nature, Actinobacteria play an important role in the cycling of organic compounds and have also been associated with soil organic matter production, owing to their black pigments called melanins, which are related, in some respects, to soil humic acid [ 12, 21].
The meeting discussed, among other matters, debts owed to Sam Hammam's company Langston.
It assumes, implicitly, that debt is debt – that it doesn't matter who owes the money.
Charlie will always cherish Louis's friendship no matter who owes whom.
