Sentence examples for unprotected surface from inspiring English sources

This leads to a major unprotected surface area of joint prostheses favoring reinfection, especially in septic revision surgery.

A Scanning-Kelvin-Probe was applied to map the varying activity of the protected and unprotected surface.

An integral is performed on the amplitude of the stroke current (weighted by the probability distribution of this amplitude) to account for the dependency of the shape and size of the unprotected surface on the stroke current.

At the beginning of the etching process shown in Figure 3a, the nanopits were formed at the vertex of a hexagon on the surface, indicating that the PS nanospheres indeed acted as an etching mask and the unprotected surface (i.e., the interstices of nanospheres) was preferentially etched by the reactive F ions during the RIE process.

Schistosomiasis, perhaps more than any other disease, is entrenched in prevailing social ecological systems, since transmission is governed by human behaviour (e.g. open defecation and patterns of unprotected surface water contacts) and ecological features (e.g. living in close proximity to suitable freshwater bodies in which intermediate host snails proliferate).

The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation.

Winds blowing over unprotected surfaces fringing the ice sheets picked up fine material known as loess; once deposited, it became Germany's most fertile soil-parent material.

Just outside these glacial areas, in what are known as periglacial lands, repeated freezing and thawing of unprotected surfaces modified slopes by the movement of waste sheets (formed of shattered bedrock), producing very much the landscape that exists today.

In this case, the accumulated electron dose approaches 2,000,000 e/Å2 see (Footnote 1). Figure 3d, f show that one must expect that unprotected surfaces are significantly compromised by such imaging conditions.

The high bacterial count in the wet season could be attributed to the transport of contaminated soil into the unprotected open wells by winds preceding rainfall and also surface runoff.

Tissue shrinkage and loss of nuclei/nucleoli from the unprotected section surfaces of unembedded tissue used for immunohistochemistry may be problematic with regard to adequate stereological design.