The analysed FRP samples were physically characterised by a very low slenderness value in order to avoid potential local instability which characterises FRP pultruded materials.
In brief, frozen human cortical samples were physically homogenized and powdered.
All McDermitt mine cinnabar samples were physically separated from bulk ore by crushing and hand picking.
The LOA were expected to increase with sublobar samples because the samples were physically smaller and therefore the precision was reduced.
Overall, the average age was 78 years in the sub sample and 73 years in the total sample, and respondents in both samples were physically active for about two and a half hours a day.
In all cases, samples were physically brought to the UK where they were opened in the laboratory, the samples divided in two longitudinally and one half placed in a second polythene bag and re-coded.
Although the two tissue samples were physically in the same intact tissue and are structurally similar, the two images have different properties (total image and pixel sizes, contrast mechanisms and data values).
This type of model makes it possible to investigate how the system would react if the samples were physically set to have the same coagulation time, i.e. removing variability due to the effect of starting coagulation time.
The frozen samples were physically disrupted by impact and then transferred to 2 ml screw cap tubes containing 1 ml Tri-Reagent (Applied Biosystems) and a mixture of 2- and 4- mm acid washed glass beads.
As second measure of the backbone anisotropy, the monodomain sample was physically extended.
