Sentences with phrase «by fiber length»

The grade of paper is determined by fiber length, which shortens after each trip through the recycling process.

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A study performed on rats showed that the pelvic floor muscle fiber length increases between 21 - 37 % and the quantity of extracellular collagen matrix increases by 140 % in the pelvic floor muscles.

To keep the system running for hours at a time, the Toshiba team also implemented a feedback system to stretch certain meters - long optical fibers within Alice's and Bob's detectors by a few nanometers, thus keeping the ratio of those lengths constant to a few parts in a billion.

Muscle CSA was calculated by dividing the muscle mass by the product of the muscle density coefficient (1.06 g • cm3), muscle Lo, and the fiber length coefficient (EDL: 0.45, soleus: 0.69).

-- Exercise performed by the exertion of effort against a resistance that strengthens and tones the muscle without changing the length of the muscle fibers.

Healthy non-industrialized societies didn't go out of their way to eat fiber, but they did go to great lengths to nourish their intestinal flora by eating fermented foods rich in healthy bacteria.

Muscle fascicles are themselves wrapped around by the perimysium and are comprised of many muscle fibers, which do not always run the length of the muscle fascicle that contains them (Sokoloff & Goslow, 1999).

When sarcomeres attempt to reduce length by increasing the amount of actin and myosin filaments that overlap, this produces tensile force within the muscle fiber that ultimately leads to muscle contractions.

The intrinsic causative factors are those that are affected by physiology and include the number of active motor units (motor unit recruitment), the muscle fiber type, the blood flow within the muscle, the muscle fiber diameter, the depth of the active muscle fibers within the muscle, the amount of non-muscle tissue between the active muscle fibers and the electrode (De Luca, 1997), and the muscle length (Kamen & Caldwell, 1996).

When Harge attempts to win sole custody of their child by attacking Carol's moral fiber, solely on the basis of her affairs with women, Carol decides to temporarily flee New York with Therese in tow, unaware of the lengths Harge will go to in order to ruin any chance of happiness for her.

A white «smoke trail» on the side runs down the length of the car, complimented by the exposed carbon - fiber roof wearing a «charge» design that Aston says mimics the canopy design of a jet.

The high tear resistance along the length of the fiber also allows CFRP components to be given a high - strength design by following their direction of loading.