That makes sense, because the more flexible a bone is, the less likely it is to break.
It needs flexible logic circuitry (to do the actual computing), flexible memory or storage, a flexible power source, and a flexible display.
When it comes to working in unorganized environments, a flexible framework with a certain amount of latitude is critical.
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During this exam, a flexible tube containing a small transducer about the size of your index finger is guided down your throat.
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We have excellent prospects for internal and external growth, a flexible business model a competitive cost of capital and a fantastic cohesive team dedicated to delivering value for stakeholders.
I'm glad I have such a flexible workplace and a supervisor who understands that I'll get everything done at the end of the day although my work concentration might get broken up from time to time with cleaning up spilled cereal, reading a story that she just has to hear, and cuddling if she has a gloomy day.
Claimants for compensation will have to prove before a judge that they really owned the land they claim, and that it was unjustly seized (a flexible concept: a judge might accept that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza had indeed awarded himself legal title to some land he had got hold of, but that its confiscation after he was overthrown in 1979 was fair enough).
These devices use a microcurrent to gently push a drug into the patients skin for faster healing or cosmetic improvements, making a small, thin and flexible battery a necessity.
Why a nose ever became so long and flexible in a land animal has long been a mystery.
Having a flexible exchange rate requires a certain degree of infrastructure and expertise these countries lacked.
IMF's insistence on a flexible labour market as a condition for loans to keep the country afloat.
The long-term plan is to make a complete flexible computer in a laminated sandwich just a couple of millimetres thick.
Web software is billed as a flexible alternative to maintaining a suite of huge applications from sap and Oracle inside a corporate data center.
He said that the myth of a flexible labour market was a widely peddled "myth" - and that the government should be concerned about the overall reduction in retirement savings.
Web software is billed as a flexible alternative to maintaining a suite of huge applications from sap and Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) inside a corporate data center.
The purchase required paying a small brokerage commission, which makes the investment less flexible than a mutual fund.
The bracelet may have two parts, a touch sensitive flexible display and a solar power collector.
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Thus, lacking any ability to conduct a mobile or flexible defence, a controlled retreat, they risk the whole thing smashing open.
But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.
The challenge is to add functionality without compromising on design elegance, and to provide a flexible interface that can accommodate a wide range of user preferences.
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The laparoscope is a flexible controllable tube, with a camera and a bright light at the end, which allows the surgeon to see inside a patient's body.
In addition, the OLEDs can be fabricated onto a flexible plastic substrate rather than a rigid glass layer, making it easier to manufacture them into a curved screen.
The company has created a slim bracelet, the UP band, that contains a wealth of sensors and a rechargeable battery all attached to a flexible steel frame enclosed in a special, rubber-like coating.
They ended up producing a flexible catheter tube that goes a bit of the way up the nostrils, then a guide wire is inserted into the targeted sinus. (In live patients this is done via an endoscope and fluoroscope.) A balloon catheter is advanced over the guide wire and positioned against the blocked ostium.
By doing so it makes the iPad potentially much less flexible as a workplace device.
That limit might be flexible once a family concludes that frugality is the path to long-term wealth.
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By replacing the glass sheets with plastic, Rolltronics plans to manufacture a flexible version of this memory using a roll-to-roll process.
In manufacturing, innovations such as programmable machine tools make capital equipment more flexible, creating a demand for more flexible human capital, too.
There are questions about whether it's appropriate for example to push someone against a flexible wall, if that saves a child's life.
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