When Coben compares one of his characters to Inspector Javert, there was no need to gloss the reference: every reader knows he means a rigid, vengeful individual obsessed with the letter of the law irrespective of human cost.
Cycles of rigid-body, individual-atom, and individual-B-factor refinement using Ramachandran and secondary structure restraints and optimized weights for stereochemistry and optimized atomic displacement parameters were carried out using Phenix (Adams et al., 2010).
This is not about deleting knowledge or censoring/sanitizing behaviour; it's about being appropriately sympathetic to the ephemeral character of (human) memory — which, being flexible rather than rigid, allows individuals and societies to move on.
In order to get their results, rigid-type individuals must learn to create strategies which target the top priorities of their flexible- time partners.
Despite its insistence that it maintains rigid internal discipline, individual members sometimes publicly stray off message.
Political and historical studies show that when they come under similarly serious threats, even "soft" and "flexible" political systems, as a rule, turn more rigid and limit individual rights, as happened in the United States after September 11 , 2001
One way to understand the music of the improvising electro-acoustic quartet Glissando bin Laden — especially if you let the name sink in — is as a fight between rigid law and individual choice.
For protein complexes, each subunit in the complex is treated as an individual rigid body.
This may be because splinting the impression copings using a rigid material prevented individual coping movement during the impression making procedure [1].
After curing in water, the beams were transferred to individual rigid sheet metal containers which were then filled with water to just above the specimen surface, and placed in a freeze thaw chamber.
