That means that the coalition supporting overhaul starts from a position of strength, although Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority whip, has vowed to do all he can to defeat the bill.
The strength of Representative Ron Paul of Texas, who has built a dedicated band of supporters, and the rising candidacy here of Rick Santorum are among the ingredients fueling a volatile final week before the Iowa caucuses kick off the first round of voting.
Thus the test methods outlined in this chapter to determine the static properties of the adhesive provide useable design allowables for static strength of representative repair joints with metallic patches and in some circumstances with composite patches.
Quadriceps muscle strength is representative for lower extremity strength which is extremely important for activities of daily living [ 2], while handgrip strength is a more general measure for overall muscle strength [ 29].
To date, several studies have examined whether premolar bond strengths are representative of all tooth types (Hobson et al., 2001; Linklater and Gordon, 2001; Mattick and Hobson, 2000).
This study, however, has several strengths, including representative samples of adult population in Shanghai, oral glucose tolerance tests for all participants without history of type 2 diabetes, and extensive interpopulation comparison.
We also evaluate the convenience of using the average strength as the representative strength of a ceramic lot, and the goodness of the Gaussian distribution in comparison with the Weibull one to predict the behavior of the extruded ceramic material.
This study performs a series of experimental tests for the concrete with different compressive strength to obtained representative and reliable measured elastic moduli.
A study was conducted to determine the bond strength of a representative matrix of plastics and the adhesives best suited to them.
Co-word analysis was employed to reveal patterns and trends in the research by measuring the association strength of terms representative of relevant publications produced in ET field.
