In 1948 the American aeronautical engineer Francis Rogallo patented a completely flexible kite with no rigid supporting spars, which was the forerunner of the delta kite and modern hang gliding.
Multiple thermal annealing on graphene devices could be performed without damages to the flexible substrate using a rigid supporting substrate, poly(dimethylsiloxane) coated Si, holding the flexible substrate during the device fabrication.
This suggests that the environment of the tryptophan in the outer loop is not rigid, supporting our observation that the fold is disrupted by the W8Y mutation.
Normal bone provides rigid support and is not brittle.
America's rigid support of Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi's repressive dictatorship has not been forgotten.
In this method, liquid plastic that has been dissolved in acetone is poured onto a rigid support backing, such as fibreboard or cardboard.
The reverse of this i.e., attaching a painting on canvas to a stable rigid support (a process known as "marouflage")—is still sometimes done for various reasons.
This thinned pictorial layer is then fixed to a rigid support after recoating the reverse with materials optically simulating the original underlying plaster.
But with both major political parties in Tasmania as one in their rigid support of Gunns and old-growth logging, Tasmanians cannot stop this coalition of greed and power from within their island.
