The results showed that for the same amount of liquid inserted, there is considerably less pressure inside the membrane over the elastic foundation and a smaller superficial area for the expanded membrane.
While noting differences in skin tone, he based his varieties upon the structures of the cranium, which supposedly gave his distinctions a stronger scientific foundation than the more superficial characteristic of color (Hannaford 1996, 206).
If the relationship is actually a heartfelt, meaningful one, based on a solid foundation, then the fleeting, superficial stuff shouldn't matter.
Most singers who imitated Crosby in the 1920's and 1930's -- Russ Columbo, Perry Como, Dick Todd -- took the superficial aspects of his style without the jazz foundation, which is why so much of their work is antiquated.
Some have expressed concerns that a sort of superficial "McMindfulness" is taking over which ignores the ethical foundations of the meditative practices and traditions from which mindfulness has emerged, and divorces it from its profoundly transformative potential.
Mr Porter, the Harvard strategy guru, thinks that GuideStar's figures are too superficial to be much use in judging, say, the performance of foundations.
As superficial as this elementary practice may sound, it lays the foundation of a new blueprint which can be extended to grander, more abstract promises.
The foundation of its work was based on stripping away all the superficial assumptions we make about ourselves and one another in order to dig into the unseen commonality of our genetic makeup.
Occidentalism consists of a complex of assumptions about Western culture -- that it is arrogant, materialistic, secular, superficial and rootless, and that the United States, against which such charges are scarcely without foundation, is its chief representative.
Without reflecting and developing its own theoretical foundations, futures research takes the risk of adapting approaches of discourse analysis in a superficial and epistemologically unsatisfying way.
