"Such qualities as intelligence, persistence, ability and, above all, independence, that are usually considered assets were probably the very factors that sealed our fate," wrote Mr. Dereszewski, who has been chairwoman of the board's land use committee for more than a decade.
The polymers also provided an optical band gap of about 1.6 eV, switching from slight blue in the oxidized form to dark blue in the reduced form with good optical contrast (24.0%), moderate response time (6.8 s) and excellent switching stability and color persistence ability.
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were commercially manufactured in the United States from about 1930 until 1979, when their production was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) because of concerns about their extreme environmental persistence, ability to bioaccumulate, and adverse human health effects.
Don't forget about all of your important personal characteristics: persistence, creative abilities, etc. Weaknesses: This is the area that needs the most digging.
They identified four defining attributes; namely belief in being capable of performing a task (confidence), ability to carry out the task (capability), ability to be successful in performing the task over time (persistence) and ability to perform in stressful situations (strength).
Such absurdities underscore one of the most important reasons, in Lankov's view, for North Korea's persistence: its ability to prevent the vast majority of the population from receiving information about the outside world.
The foundation president, Richard Logan, tells me that he and his colleagues have "scoured the news ecosystem", looking for projects that "not only have the persistence and ability to get great stories, but the moxy and means to get them into the public domain".
Bansal: Persistence, the ability to take constructive criticism, strong work ethic, balance and creativity.
PBDEs are similar to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in structure, lipophilicity, persistence, and ability to bioaccumulate (Hardy 2002a; McDonald 2002).
Because of their persistence, lipophilicity, ability to bioaccumulate, and concerns regarding adverse effects on human health, production of PentaBDE and OctaBDE is now prohibited by the Stockholm Convention, an international treaty that governs persistent organic pollutants.
As the key challenges of T-cell avidity, persistence and ability to exert the desired anti-tumour effects as well as the identification of new target antigens are addressed, a broader clinical application of these therapies could be achieved.
