a. To keep in existence; maintain, continue, or prolong: sustain an effort. b. To keep up (a joke or assumed role, for example) competently. 2. a. To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for: the income needed to sustain a family. b. To support the spirits, vitality, ...
Digital cameras demolished the film industry, and smartphones have practically eliminated the stand-alone camera business. With smartphones, there is also no need for built-in navigation units in a vehicle or portable units that mount on the dashboard. Stay tuned!
More importantly, it means that none of the forces that reduced crime can confidently be harnessed for policy purposes. Existing hypotheses relating to the crime drops are reviewed and found generally wanting. Many do not stand up to empirical testing. Others do not seem able to explain crime ...
12]. Flush-based technologies also cannot function properly in the Himalaya during winter conditions due to the freezing of sewer networks. As a result, CTs are prominent in the Himalayan region, particularly in the northwestern Himalaya and Ladakh areas of India [7]...
Transportation and affordable housing stand out as the two most capital-intensive sectors (Exhibit 9). The challenge for India will be to ramp up investment in line with economic growth. One trajectory would involve annual spending of around $30 billion...
We will briefly consider the changes needed in each area and the policy and regulatory interventions required to enable and encourage those shifts, as well as the barriers that stand in the way. 1. Capturing the energy-efficiency opportunity ...
U.S. Pat. No. 4,160,536 (Krogsrud, Jul. 10, 1979) discloses a structure composed of two connected parallelogram arms. A nylon shoe is connected to a slide, such that a spring can be hidden from view, and different counterbalancing forces can be reached by utilizing the slide to adju...
Unfortunately, recent evidence has shown that such an influx could not overcome the permanent forces that continue to push populations into poverty traps [27]. In response, just as states have created within-country mechanisms to redistribute capital as a means of insuring those who are at the ...
Quilting forces us to pay attention to what we are doing right now. Look away for a moment and you can cut off your finger tip. Trust me, I know that. One of the reasons I started quilting was that it was a complete distraction from the stress of graduate school. Because I had to...
(40, 340, 440) composed of malleable cast iron material is delimited in the perimeter direction by the parts (46, 47) of the side walls and up and down by the parts (122, 127, 128, 171, 141, 129) of the walls whose zones of material, which transmit the forces, are configured so...