Constipation, a condition characterized by the difficult passage of relatively dry, hardened feces, may arise from insufficient dietary fibre (roughage) or other dietary factors, such as taking calcium or iron supplements, in addition to daily routines that preclude relaxation.
Insect larvae are very rarely found in the fossil record as body remains, partly because they contain relatively few hardened structures.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban's supreme leader has replaced his top deputy with a relatively young but hardened fighter, an indication of the Taliban's determination to push ahead with its insurgency despite the recent arrests of a handful of high-level commanders in Pakistan, according to Afghans and Pakistanis close to the Taliban.
Some features of these soils can serve as climatic indicators, the most reliable being robust features such as horizons with hardened accumulations of relatively insoluble iron, manganese, or calcium minerals or layers with accumulations of strongly aggregated clay-size particles.
Wear test result showed relatively low mass loss of hardened specimen as compare to base material, and the scratch test confirmed improvement in scratch resistance of the hardened surface.
Protests could be expected if there were pictures of desecration of the Qur'an, but Taliban fighters are viewed as hardened enough to be relatively unmoved by a member of the British forces demonstrating victory or a sense of relief at the end of battle.
The relatively well-equipped, disciplined and battle-hardened Angolans might use more robust methods to suppress the worst of the militias.
Comprehensive research has been done on both fresh and hardened properties of SCC, but relatively little research have been performed on the structural behavior of SCC.
Hardened spleens were associated with relatively high egg count and a greater degree of splenomegaly, but the geographical clustering of hard spleens extended beyond the sector with highest IgG3 titres and high egg counts into the sector with high IgG3 levels and low egg counts.
A larger amount of transferred material took place for tests carried out with hardened steel balls, probably owing to their relatively lower hardness in comparison to that of the tungsten carbide balls.
