Although the bentonite is expected to become saturated in the repository, it is of importance to understand the process of saturation as it develops with increasing swelling pressure and decreasing suction.
Kitter and Obinger (2003), following Flora (1986), describe a natural process of saturation and therefore convergence to the long-term equilibrium of an upper-limit welfare state.
We do not find a natural process of saturation and convergence to a common upper-limit welfare state long-term equilibrium as stated by Flora (1986) and Kitter and Obinger (2003), the catch-up hypothesis.
A process of saturation was used to determine the number of interviews.
19 As Morse described: "The quantity of the data in a category is not theoretically important to the process of saturation.
Thus it requires no specialized chemistry, reagents or equipment, and simply relies on a process of saturation cycling comprising ligation, amplification and digestion for each cycle.
With regard to prednisone interference, one could speculate that this process of pathway saturation, possibly caused by extensive negative feedback or shortage of signaling proteins, could be synergistically enhanced by prednisone.
Because of meagre and unclear reporting, it was also difficult to tell whether the studies that claimed to have decided on sample size through an iterative research process and point of saturation did, in fact, analyse their data after data collection had ended.
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) practically overcomes some of the concentration limitations of MRS: By exploiting a chemical property of certain metabolites, these can be detected with increased sensitivity to two orders of magnitude higher or more by a continuous process of re-saturation and exchange (to be discussed in the coming sections).
In Liquid Composite Molding (LCM) processes the saturation of the reinforcement by the resin may induce the creation of porosity in the preform affecting the final properties of the composite.
