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They can also be made out of natural materials if combined to make a nonrigid object.

Subsequent airships for Navy use were of a nonrigid design.

Another is the plastic, nonrigid French or whistle tip catheter.

The second category of transformations allow 'elastic' or 'nonrigid' transformations.

In 1955 there was increased interest in the use of nonrigid airships as part of the national early warningnetwork.

"Zeppelins are rigid as compared with nonrigid airships.

Spatial normalization typically employs a 3-dimensional nonrigid transformation model (a "warp-field") for warping a brain scan to a template.

Nonrigid registration of medical images can also be used to register a patient's data to an anatomical atlas, such as the Talairach atlas for neuroimaging.

Brazil's business elite are probably "the most flexible, the most versatile, the most imaginative and the most nonrigid in the world," Mr. Stern said.

On 4 February 1917 the Secretary of the Navy directed that 16 nonrigid airships of Class B be procured.

Nevertheless, the Navy commissioned rigid airships for use as long-range aerial scouts and nonrigid ships (called blimps) for training and antisubmarine work.

The 1987 paper "Constraints on deformable models: Recovering 3D shape and nonrigid motion" by (by Terzopoulos, Witkin, and Kass) was also a prize winner.

Water also pushes against the upstream face of the dam, a nonrigid structure that under stress behaves semiplastically, and causes greater need for adjustment (flexibility) near the base of the dam than at shallower water levels.

Specifications for the airships were drawn up by an Air Ministry committee whose members included Squadron Leader Reginald Colmore and Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Richmond, both of whom had extensive experience with airships, principally nonrigid ones.

In 1908, the Aeronautical Division, at the intercession of President Theodore Roosevelt in the acquisition process, purchased a nonrigid dirigible from Thomas Scott Baldwin for $6,750, and an airplane from the Wright Brothers for $25,000.

Nemir, D. C , Koivo, A. J., and Kashyap, R. L., "Pseudolinks and the Self-Tuning Control of a Nonrigid Link Mechanism", Purdue University, Advance copy submitted for publication, 1987.

Mr. Shanker said he was surprised that Mr. Bush had offered some "radically different proposals" that departed from the ideas of conservative educators, notably in emphasizing the notion of diverse, nonrigid curriculums to meet the needs of students of differing ethnic and geographic backgrounds.

A dirigible is a rigid airship, i.e., rigidly constructed, having an inner latticework of metal supporting a bag containing pockets of gas (hydrogen or helium), whereas a blimp is a nonrigid airship, i.e., an inflated gas bag, more like a hot air balloon.

And, as he pointed out, according to section 16.7 of the town code, banners and streamers are strictly prohibited, as are sidewalk sandwich boards, strobe lights, signs made of "nonrigid material" and anything else that flutters, flashes, spins, buzzes, wags or otherwise moves faster than an ice floe.