Whilst Northern Ireland's constitutional position is particular, the Games have provided plenty of examples of how elastic a concept national identity can be.
"Michael has one flaw in my view that there is hardly a weekend that he hasn't been off the road at one time or another and sometimes several times because he stretches the elastic a tad too far, " said the 67-year-old Scot.
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Millions of simultaneous users play Farmville or Draw Something (which scaled up to 36 million users in 6 weeks), which requires a simple, fast, elastic database (called a NoSQL database, a new category of product designed for the age of big data), that can process and deliver massive amounts of user and other types of data in real time.
What Nick Vitalari and I described in The Elastic Enterprise is a new wealth creation system.
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It follows what Nick Vitalari and I called, in the Elastic Enterprise, a strategic options approach and pursues adjacencies at will.
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Because it is too elastic to provide a guide to future action.
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The mattresses are made from visco-elastic foam, a NASA padding innovation that is temperature-sensitive and softens to conform to the shape of the sleeper's body.
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Some shapewear has a show-through elastic edge that "pops up like a roller shade, " she says.
Ms. Thomson's solution: a shaper slip without the kind of elastic waistband that could cause bulges a dance partner might feel.
In its latest evolution, Elastic is today launching a sales CRM service called Close.io.
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The heavy-duty elastic straps hook to a beam and enable users to use their body weight as resistance in movements like single leg jumps.
His definition of "short term" did seem a bit elastic.
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Until recently, there was some question whether the enzyme sensor solution would handle the stresses of daily life, so to speak, but these briefs were up to the task -- subjected to a torturous gauntlet of bending and stretching, a treated elastic waistband was still able to adequately measure chemicals as required.
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Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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At no point did Maddow shake her head vigorously back and forth, making a WUBBA WUBBA WUBBA sound, or cause steam to issue from her ears, or make her eyeballs shoot straight out of their sockets and hang suspended in space for a moment before retracting as if on elastic bands, any of which would have been a reasonable response.
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Tensegrity refers to the balance of pushing and pulling forces--the metal pushes, the wire pulls--that work to maintain a flexible, elastic shape.
He patiently explains that economic theory tells us that discriminatory pricing by a monopolistic content provider, in which inelastic customers pay more than elastic ones, is provably more efficient than a one-size-fits-all pricing regime.
The researchers combined thin silicon sheets of photodiodes and elastic microlenses and stretched them into a hemisphere.
It is happening though and we believe a new kind of elastic enterprise is evolving because of it.
"The heart of the company's products is a proprietary visco-elastic foam, " says Lutts.
The form-fitting shirts, marketed under the trademark name Evidence Based Apparel, are embedded with elastic bands and were designed using a combination of biomechanical technology, neurological research and advanced body-imaging systems.
"The new material is a liquid-infused elastic porous surface, which is what allows for the fine control over so many adaptive responses above and beyond its ability to repel a wide range of substances, " Prof Aizenberg explained.
Nick Vitalari and I write about the impact of business ecosystems in our new book The Elastic Enterprise and as ARM represents a very interesting case of an ecosystem at work, it might also illustrate some truths about how the new business environment operates.
Imagine, by contrast, an elastic band that passes through the hole in a doughnut.
Apple revolutionized corporate structures with its massive developer ecosystem, a topic covered here in The Elastic Enterprise.
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The front and rear multilink suspension has been revised to provide better cornering, body control and, most important, isolation, with a pallet full of hydro-elastic bushings between suspension bits and chassis.
All models are made with visco-elastic foam, and higher-end models feature a pillow-top design.
Gluten is the hunk of proteins that turns a ball of crumbling dough into an elastic, yummy ball of bread-to-be.
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