Kim Jong-il's plus-minus sheet looks decidedly better than ours.
Using high and low dielectric constants, favouring van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonding, respectively, van der Waals-associated mini-sheets had lower energies than hydrogen bonded mini-sheets.
Furthermore, the first glucan mini-sheet most likely to form is the one with the lowest energy.
In the case of cellulose Iβ, this mini-sheet was the one along the (110) plane; in the case of cellulose Iα, it was the one along the (010) plane.
Incorporating these results into known experimental evidence, we theorize the requirement of at least three sequential steps for native cellulose I crystallization: (1) formation of mini-sheets by van der Waals forces, (2) association of these sheets by hydrogen bonding into mini-crystals, and (3) the convergence of mini-crystals to form the crystalline microfibril.
Last month, for the opening of the William H. Gross stamp gallery at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum in Washington, the Postal Service reissued the Inverted Jenny, this time with a face value of $2, in mini-sheets of six with a decorative border.
She sautes ground beef, adds canned tomatoes and seasonings and then throws in wide egg noodles (which are almost like mini-lasagna sheets).
Every Twitter user has, in effect, been sold a digital Mogwai minus the instruction sheet.
One method is to combine the value of a company's assets on its balance sheet, minus depreciation and liabilities.
It is applied to a bank's entire balance-sheet minus its core capital, insured retail deposits and cash raised against holdings of government bonds.
There would be pluses and minuses on the ballot sheet.
