They are also known to decrease capillary fragility.

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How about wet adhesion? Or capillary adhesion?

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They inhibit the edema, fibrin deposition, capillary dilation, leukocyte migration, capillary proliferation, fibroblast proliferation, deposition of collagen, and scar formation with inflammation.

It's capillary action and transpiration pulls water up, a drop at a time, pulling it, releasing it from a leaf and pulling it up through the roots.

But the money market s size is not the only reason for its fragility.

The increasing fragility of the international political order is diminishing the global economy s prospects.

As the situation is fragile in the country, a mission without this support could not be organised.

Indeed, the fragility of the global economic recovery is often cited as a justification to delay such action.

That is why we make an urgent appeal for something to be done about the debt problem.

The fragility of Germany s foreign policy foundations was to become clear during the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

And fiscal weakness and balance of payments fragility have become more acute in India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey.

And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

When it comes to national leadership at a time of fragility and transition, so much seems to depend on the luck of the draw.

MADRID The revolutions that swept the Arab world during the last two years have exposed the extraordinary fragility of key Arab states.

Liquid love is a concept created by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman concerning the fragility of human bonds in postmodernity.

In their natural range they are used in basketry, however their fragile nature prevents them from being a common rattan source.

And I asked myself, in a way, looking back, When did that kind of awareness of the planet and its fragility first appear?

Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.

So, illusions are often used, especially in art, in the words of a more contemporary artist, to demonstrate the fragility of our senses.

The Arab Spring, however, reveals the fragility of repressive political regimes that try to maintain their legitimacy by limiting information flows.

As we ponder the second choice, between stability and fragility, we must consider how we can make our increasingly interconnected world a safer place.

Yanukovych s candidacy thus reveals much about the nature of the people who back him, and also about the fragility of Ukraine s democracy.

Neither Greenspan nor his successor, Ben Bernanke, understood how fragile the housing market and the financial system had become after a long period of under regulation.

So what big history can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power with collective learning.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism, playing out silently in the lives of people all around us even now.

Assessments on competitiveness and the fragility of external balances suggest that structural reforms in the enterprise sector are needed to enhance Croatia s competitiveness.

CAMBRIDGE Last month, at a nbsp US Federal Reserve Bank conference on the money market, officials lamented the market s enduring fragility.

The Sunni tumult has underscored the fragility of almost all Arab countries, while diluting the centrality of the Israel Palestine conflict.

It cannot risk falling into complacency and inaction, whether regarding terrorism or the fragile state of the world s economy.

The fragility of America s banks had been known for a long time at least since the bankruptcy of Bear Stearns the previous March.

The fact that the text has returned to this chamber bears witness to the amount of thought that has gone into this important debate, so vital to the citizens of the whole of Europe I might say the whole world but also to how difficult it is to find a definition appropriate to this aspect of relationships between the countries of the European Community.

If detected early enough, solutions can be found to diffuse tempestuous crowds before they inundate fragile new institutions.

One thing I hope will become clear at the Oslo education summit is the need to help middle income countries affected by fragility and conflict.

But he says that he has yet to experience someone who became more aware of their body, in all its frailty and its grace, without, at the same time, becoming more compassionate towards all of life.

Now, we, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity despite the second law, and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

Rather , markets expect oil prices to remain at high levels , driven mainly by buoyant global demand and , to some extent , by fragilities on the supply side .

It is no less ridiculous that we have lorries travelling from the south meeting other coming from the north carrying identical goods, all of them packaged in plastics, in other words petroleum products.

The European Central Bank s vehement opposition to what is essential to all capitalist economies the restructuring of failed or insolvent entities debt is evidence of the continuing fragility of the Western banking system.

George Whitesides Yes, I think you could. Because if you look at the components from which the system is made and examine their fragility, or their stability, you can probably build a kind of risk assessment based on that basis.

Bearing in mind the extremely fragile economies of the small island Non Self Governing Territories and their vulnerability to natural disasters, such as hurricanes, cyclones and sea level rise, and recalling the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly,

This summer in Guinea, for example, citizens frustration with widespread poverty and weak institutions, memories of ethnic persecution, and distrust of unfamiliar democratic processes fueled violent protests.

Much of it involved costly churning of portfolios, while increased leverage implied fragility for the financial system as a whole and imposed severe social costs as over exposed households subsequently went bankrupt.

Capital controls enabled China to emerge from the Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998 largely unscathed, even though its financial system was at least as fragile as those of the affected countries.