This is because the layers are held together through so called van der Waals interactions which are relatively
weak forces as compared to other bonding configurations such as covalent bonds.
Not exact matches
In the days to come the Fed will have to prove that a new set of tools for managing interest rates will work
as expected; see how higher U.S. rates affect domestic and global financial conditions; and hope that
weak world demand and commodity prices do not lead to an overall bout of deflation and
force the Fed to reverse course.
The ethos of the Bush - era CIA was «know - nothingism,»
as Paul Krugman put it at The New York Times, «the insistence that there are simple, brute -
force, instant - gratification answers to every problem, and that there's something effeminate and
weak about anyone who suggests otherwise.»
Obviously, products get better inasmuch
as the designer adds features, but this is a relatively
weak force.
By now, most people are likely aware of the government's attempts to use the All Writs Act from 1789
as a tool to
force Apple write new software with
weaker security so that feds could unlock an iPhone 5c they had in custody.
«Levitational
force of policy easing can only temporarily lift asset prices
as gravitational
forces of
weaker fundamentals dominate over time,» he said.
True, our unemployment rate is biased down due to the
weak performance of labor
force participation and still - elevated underemployment, but
as I've extensively documented, the US job market has been tightening up for awhile, driven by solid employment growth, now averaging around 200,000 / month.
In a sense, many labor market indicators for blacks are biased up
as those with
weaker labor
force attachment are removed from the sample.
This
forces peripheral Europe into both rising debt and high unemployment, and it is only because Europe
as a whole has
forced the problem of
weak German demand onto the rest of the world that conditions in Europe are not even worse.
Office 365 and Azure are comparatively
weaker strategically: Office 365 has document lock - in, but the exact same
forces that weakened Windows in the first place weaken the idea of documents
as well.
This week delivered two major blows to the already struggling Greenback,
as the dovish Fed - statement was followed by a prelim GDP report that showed very
weak inflationary
forces.
These companies can survive bad times and eventually become more dominant
as weaker competitors are
forced to cut back or shut down» Chris Davis
Yesterday's inflation reading comes on the heels of a
weak retail sales report, which should come
as no surprise, given that so many people in the US have left the labor
force.
But
as Bernanke noted: «Despite this improvement, the job market remains
weak overall: The unemployment rate is still well above its longer - run normal level, rates of long - term unemployment are historically high, and the labor
force participation rate has continued to move down.
The laws of physic requires that there be
forces and objects that interact with each other, such
as the four
forces now known, of gravity, electro - magnetism, the strong and
weak nuclear
forces (and now there is possibly dark energy) that is interwoven within matter.
I went on to speak of how,
as the church grew and became a dominant
force in society, the church and later the nation took some responsibility to protect the
weak and powerless.
The grand unified theory (GUT) isn't actually relevant with GR,
as the GUT is what we have to explain E&M, strong and
weak forces.
Many of us assume, looking back at what history tells us, that when the institutional church grows
weak and ineffective the churches themselves have no power
as a counterbalancing
force.
For instance, if the
force that holds protons in an atomic nucleus were even slightly
weaker or stronger, stars — and so also life
as we know it — would be impossible.2
We are
forced to conclude that,
as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's
weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.
As a
weaker force, the insurgents can not operate without the support of the people.
Second,
as we are all
weak against the
forces of ignorance and evil, we must join
forces with all others who share our moral concern about the development of our society, whatever church they belong to or even if they do not belong to any church.
That way he won't be
force into his
weaker areas such
as creating off the dribble and shooting contested jumpers.
No if the players, former players the board and over half the fanbase support a specialist in failure, then you know what you've become.A FAILING CLUB.You'll have to let those with the strength and amplitude of being able to live with everything that is going around the club do
as they wish.We predict for change but change might not come for a long time.Wenger might not leave unless he is
forced to.But the protess for change are
weak and the board members are fine with his achievements I
I wonder why the guy kept Campbell if he will not play him, why play Ozil or Cazorla on the left wing when you have Podolsky.The team did well
as they always do against
weak team but the tactic remain the same, look how Arsenal were better at the end without the usual suspects
forced on the team Wilshr, Arteta etc..
For me
as we climb up the ladder and again start being a
force in the PL, we need to slowly eliminate the
weak links in the team!
As the football spreads suggest on Sporting Index, Sweden will be a far
weaker force without the services of Ibra at this summer's World Cup, and what the 1958 finalists will miss above all else is his maverick methods of getting results.
However, despite the valiant efforts of left Rawlsians to press down hard on pre-distribution and
force it to yield some radical implications (O'Neill and Williamson, 2012; Doron, 2012), in Miliband's formulation it seems a
weak reed, relying on labour market interventions such
as education and training to alter distributional outcomes.
Efforts to tackle low - level crime by
forcing police officers to investigate anti-social behaviour complaints are being criticised
as «
weak» by the opposition.
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force George Osborne into the centre of the election campaign —
as has been discussed over at Liberal Conspiracy he's widely seen to be one of the
weakest members of the Shadow Cabinet.
Some researchers believe there must be some cut - off point where classical physics takes over, such
as the point where the
weak pull of gravity overwhelms other
forces (in fact, gravity's effect on neutrons was recently measured).
The individual
forces are the
weakest binding
forces that exist in nature, but they add up to reach magnitudes that we can perceive very clearly on the macroscopic scale —
as in the example of the gecko.
As Close of Oxford points out, the sun's leisurely pace depends on the
weak force being
weak, and it is only
weak because the W bosons that transmit it are massive.
As the universe expanded, such collisions would become ever rarer and, given the strength of the
weak force, just enough WIMPs would survive to provide the right amount of dark matter today — about five times that of ordinary matter.
The
weak nuclear
force is responsible for — well, nothing much,
as far
as familiar phenomena are concerned.
Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating
as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called
weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.
They have since learned that there are two other fundamental
forces as well, a strong
force that binds together atomic nuclei and a
weak force that governs radioactive decay.
It describes all known particles,
as well
as three of the four
forces that act on them: electromagnetism and the
weak and strong nuclear
forces.
In the 1970s, physicists put all the known particles (including a few whose existence had not yet been confirmed, like the Higgs boson) and the
forces that govern their interactions — the electromagnetic,
weak and strong — into a single theoretical framework known
as the Standard Model.
Even if the findings do not support the fat graviton theory, they might place constraints on other speculative theories, such
as Gia Dvali's idea that gravity is
weak compared with the other
forces because most of it escapes into higher dimensions, outside the three we experience.
The IBM computer, Watson, a good example of what is known
as «
weak AI,» can appear to mimic human capabilities through brute
force computing, but is not yet able to think in the human sense.
The main obstacle to using neutral atoms
as qubits has been that, unlike ions, they experience very
weak forces and are not easily held in place.
It becomes apparent that electromagnetism and the
weak force are really the same thing, just
as it becomes obvious that ice and liquid water are the same substance if you warm them up together.
These
weak interactions, such
as hydrogen bonds, van der Waals
forces, and π - π interactions, govern the assembly of everything from DNA in its famous double helix to the bonding of H2O molecules in liquid water.
These are stabilised mainly by
weak interactions — such
as hydrogen bonds, intramolecular interactions, and inter molecular dispersive
forces, — between the backbone and the lateral chain of their amino acids.
But gravity is much
weaker than other
forces, such
as electromagnetism.
It won't slow down — it would just interact with matter, eventually, through the
weak force, and cease to exist
as a neutrino.
Both strong and
weak electromagnetic
forces are understood using renormalisable quantum field theories based on QED
as a prototype.
Bound together by the relatively
weak intermolecular attraction known
as the van der Waals
force, GBN heterostructures have shown high potential to serve
as platforms not only for high - electron - mobility transistors, but also for optoelectronic applications, including photodetectors and photovoltaic cells.
Its findings suggest that there is an equivalence between generalised Casimir
forces and those that are referred to
as weak nuclear interactions between protons and neutrons.