The persistence length, defined as the distance over which the direction of a polymer segment persists, provides a measure of elasticity in polymer chains.
Bottom line: paper (and PDFs) persist — providing an opportunity for better processing technologies.
The parts of an individual may be replaced, but the individual will persist, provided that the "same ratio of motion and rest" is retained (ibid., L5, L4).
TACE/TAE was repeated thereafter if tumour vascularity persisted, provided the patient tolerated the procedure and there were no emergent contraindications.
The assessment found that the Taliban remain resilient, that widespread corruption continues to weaken the central Afghan government and that Pakistan persists in providing critical support to the insurgency.
With increasing temperature, this situation persists on providing the probability growth of carrier scattering on phonons and saturation at relatively lower frequencies.
Many hospitals persist in providing undignified care for older people.
How will it commit to persist with providing this when the next financial crisis strikes and it has to shrink expenditure?
Maddy Kirkman, disabled students' officer for the NUS, said: "These findings are deeply concerning, and reaffirm the stark challenges that persist around providing effective support to students in universities and colleges.
As flood crisis persists, UNICEF provides health and education aid in southern Pakistan THATTA, Pakistan, 27 September 2010 – Thatta, a town in southern Pakistan's Sindh province, is one of the areas hardest-hit by the country's recent floods.
