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Finally, in 1947, design improvements, such as a movable horizontal stabilizer, the all-moving tail, allowed an American military pilot named Chuck Yeager to fly the Bell X-1 aircraft at 1127 km/h, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier and travel faster than the speed of sound.
In most mammals, the placenta is confined behind a barrier of maternal cells.
This barrier lets the mother control the supply of nutrients to the fetus.
Its reef forms a protective outer barrier and the inner lagoon is a nursery ground for Galapagos sharks.
But each exit is blocked by an electric barrier with a combination keypad.
Moments later, the buzz of the electric barrier stops for a few seconds, and you realize that Zara has escaped.
That barrier is also why they, unlike other contraceptive methods, are able to prevent transmission of certain sexually transmitted diseases.
These contraceptives are sometimes called barrier methods and can be used with spermicides, an example of the second category, disable.
When bacteria digest fiber, they produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer.
I'm going to call these people below the barrier "shutouts" because they're really shut out of the process of being able to share their knowledge with the world.
Obesity can cause hernias that disrupt the anti-reflux barrier of the gastroesophageal junction that normally protects against heartburn.
Someone installed a barrier, people started walking across and round the bottom as you see, and they paved it.
You have the surface barrier of the human skin, you have the very rapidly reacting innate immune system and then you have the highly targeted adaptive immune system.
This village was under a real threat of being wiped off the map when Israel started building the separation barrier.
The separation barrier was changed completely to the internationally recognized green line, and the women of Budrus came to be known across the West Bank for their indomitable energy.
Returning to my analogy of getting back on our trains, another main concern I have about this noise that escalates from our online responses to injustice is that it can very easily slip into portraying us as the affected party, which can lead to a sense of defeatism, a kind of mental barrier to seeing any opportunity for positivity or change after a negative situation.
People who refuse to believe that living in these fat bodies is a barrier to anything, really.
And having a low floor also means that we're removing the financial barrier that prevents people from completing a project.
This program has been incredibly successful, because it helped us overcome a very difficult barrier when it came to getting kids a nutritious breakfast.
And that was the barrier of stigma.
These include the psychological barrier.
Next is the geopolitical barrier.
Finally, we have the partisan barrier.
This would transform an unpopular carbon tax into a popular and populist solution, and it would also solve the underlying psychological barrier that we discussed, by giving everyone a concrete benefit in the here and now.
That's why this is the killer app of climate policy, because it would enable us to overcome each of the barriers we discussed earlier: the psychological barrier, the partisan barrier, and, as we've just seen, the geopolitical barrier.
The second barrier: researchers don't share.
But in ways that scientists are still trying to understand, meningitis bacteria can trick the barrier into letting them through.
If I needed more, I had to go through the whole process of adding a new card, and we know that every click, every barrier, changes our behavior.
Imagine using immune cells to deliver crucial wound-healing agents after a spinal cord injury, or using immune cells to deliver drugs past the blood-brain barrier to treat Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.
The other thing is that we try to distinguish between different kinds of data, because some data is extremely valuable and they will form, like, a barrier to entry in a market.
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