Unlike mice, fish also have permeable skin, and absorb drugs put in the water.
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The lack of permeable surfaces are loading drainage systems and increasing the risk of flooding.
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When you, as leader, are both strong and permeable, people feel safe and they feel included.
The original polyethylene layer was permeable but now is coextruded with nylon and is ten layers strong.
There must be some other world, unimaginably fraught and violent, contiguous to ours but not normally permeable.
The algae in the device lives in water surrounded by a gas-permeable membrane and helped by light from and LED.
Joyce and his colleagues suggest the permeable skin that may have helped these turtles breathe underwater may have accidentally doomed them.
Most of those chosen fell on the technocratic side of the permeable barrier that in Italy divides politicians from the civil service.
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Being permeable or effective in listening in the right contexts is a critical success factor, especially during times of need or pivot.
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"The idea is to make it permeable by people, " Govan says, even if those people can peer in without buying a ticket.
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Now Philadelphia is working on increasing on-site stormwater absorption by replacing some pavement with permeable surfaces and by restoring streambanks and wetlands.
But when a person is in shock, their organ walls become more permeable, letting harmful substances in and out more indiscriminately, researchers say.
He said the "curtain of secrecy is permeable" already and that an "objective and comprehensive record" was preferable to "partial and self-serving" accounts.
Mr. PILLER: Only in recent years did they figure out how to get the gas out of the shale, which is a less permeable rock.
The liquid had re-condensed on the tools because of a new type of semi-permeable wrap put around the trays that did not allow the vapour to escape.
By contrast, the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan are permeable.
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In a lot of wells I saw that the zone was taking drilling mud, soaking it up and leaving a layer of mud cake across a permeable interval of the wellbore.
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In other words, to be the opposite of permeable.
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Old carriage houses and other traditional driveways of the past would often have strips of grass in between the track areas, or their designs would include naturally permeable materials, like crushed stone.
However, if we want to shield them from the ugly idiosyncrasies of adult reality, we need to take measures to isolate them from the digital networked atmosphere where all boundaries are potentially permeable.
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' And that's what's, I think, proven so enormously challenging in Iraq is the paucity of intelligence means that we only can rely on the last line of defense, which is the physical defense against this threat, and that's the most permeable.
In defence of your courageous prime minister and our common-sense president, to concede even a reasonable probability that someone of Saddam's malevolence had any programmes for producing weapons of mass destruction justified an aggressive and timely intervention particularly given Iraq's permeable borders and shady associations.
Magazines in their great age, before they were unmoored from their spines and digitally picked apart, before perpetual blogging made them permeable packages, changing mood at every hour and up all night like colicky infants magazines were expected to be magisterial registers of the passing scene.
Cooler still is the method the arm deals with waste heat and steam: just like a regular arm, it's allowed to filter up through a permeable skin, producing "sweat" -- the same amount of perspiration you'd get on a warm summer day, according to the team.
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