Sentence examples for tortuous effect from inspiring English sources

It was Davis's fourth execution date, and it was dragged out, for more than four hours, to what must have been tortuous effect for the prisoner and his family.

"Solitary Confinement" This National Geographic feature paints a chilling portrait of the deeply tortuous effects of isolation.

Taking advantage of the so-called "tortuous path effect", we obtained OTR values below 0.05 cm3/(m2 d bar) (detection limit of the Mocon test) with 3- or 5-layer-systems.

Incorporating graphene oxide nanosheet framework is of help to improve the membrane ion selectivity by size sieving effect, tortuous pathways and electrochemical exclusive behavior on vanadium ions.

A new method based on transfer rate measurements of a radioactive solute inside activated carbon grains is presented which allows to isolate the relative contributions of the chemical (reversible adsorption) and geometrical (tortuous diffusion paths) effects on the overall effective diffusion coefficient.

And if clouds shed their loads often, one result is that they become thinner and let more heat escape into space.The weak link is that nobody yet knows whether electrofreezing really happens, and if it does, how big a difference this tortuous chain of effects could make.

Experimental results reveal that gas permeability in rectorite/SBR nanocomposite is mainly influenced by fractional free volume and tortuous diffusional path effects attributed to the clay plateletlike morphology.

Mr Sistani accepted in the end that the elections should be held after a reasonable period of preparation, but insisted that the unelected government which preceded it should not have sovereign freedom to affect the future of the Iraqi state.This somewhat tortuous procedure had various effects.

Researchers who gave evidence to the inquiry said the system was so tortuous it had a demoralising effect on workers in the field.

It is revealed that the effects of both small scale (Knudsen number) and tortuous pathways (tortuosity factor) on the effective diffusion coefficients are significant for the specific layers in the electrodes.

Discerning the degree of this effect, however, means tracing a tortuous path between global climate trends and intensely local demographics and epidemiology.