Beading or crystals may then be overlaid on consecutive layers of embroidery, which acquire the surface of a bas-relief.
A closed chamber with transparent sides is fitted with two parallel metal plates, which acquire a positive or negative charge when an electric current is applied.
Private Life is also a novel rich in symbolism: the Japanese paintings given to Margaret by her friend Mr Kimuru, which acquire layers of significance; the public hanging she is supposed to have seen at the age of five.
But like the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, Babesia protozoans are transmitted to humans by ticks, which acquire the infection from the white-footed mouse and white-tailed deer.
Memories accrete like pearls around these small things, which acquire significance not as things themselves but as keys that unlock, for our adult selves, a brief reliving of what it was to be so young - so vulnerable, so vibrant, just discovering the world and our own selves within it.
Loyalties are more specifically to towns, such as St. Albans or Brighton, and within London there is a sense of belonging more to localities such as Chelsea or Hampstead, which acquire something of the character of urban villages than to the metropolis as a whole.
These algorithms use control packets called ants, which acquire routing information through sampling of paths.
Clustering techniques, which acquire certain characteristics of input data, are efficient methods of extracting knowledge from numerical data sets.
But the proportion of organisations which acquire it and which have, say, just 6 links is not very different from the proportion of those with 26 links which acquire.
Currently, most wave records are measured by buoys, which acquire data for a time interval representative of stationary time series.
Figures 4 and 5 show the results for the proportions which acquire Levels 2 and 3 capabilities.
