We can learn the art of fierce compassion -- redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking -- while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
The accuracy of imaging alone with CT, magnetic resonance imaging, or rigid endorectal US is poor.
As a result, we may treat the mesh triangles as rigid, allowing us to consider that the barycentric coordinates remain constant for each point.
The selection of the patients was made by: rigid sigmoidoscope, transrectal us, colonoscopy, abdominal us to rule out liver metastases, CT and MRI abdomen and pelvis with and without contrast agents, PET CT.
"There have been things happening in my sleep," Opoku-Addaie tells us, rigid with fear and denial.
This plasticity serves to extend our comparatively rigid genome, giving us access to a tremendous bag of biochemical tricks we did not need to evolve ourselves.
Surprisingly, Obama seemed to lay down a quite rigid timetable for US departure, giving an unnecessary advantage to those who may want to thwart him, from al-Qaida to Shi'ite and Kurdish militants: they have his timetable, but he doesn't have theirs.
Few artists, for example, could be more distinct in tone and temper than Sempé and William Steig, and to pass from the latter's portrait of the moggy as monster, striking us rigid with his all-knowing, shark-toothed grin, to the slim streak of placability unfurled along a bed, in Sempé's rendering, is to rise, like Dante, from the nether depths toward beatitude.
Rigid registration requires us to align a floating image (volume) with respect to a reference image (volume) by correcting any relative motion between them.
Furthermore, overvaluing ideas makes us more likely to hold on to them, which in turn makes us more rigid to new and potentially contradictory evidence that might tell us to go in a different direction.
