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They’re great options for people who are advised to wear compression socks all the time, as they can work with many shoe types and across seasons.

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In simulations and experiments, they saw the bio-inspired lattice withstand the most stress — first from compression in one direction, and then from opposing pressures at three points in another test — before breaking.

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When comparing each runner’s highest-deviation shoe to his or her lowest-deviating shoe, the high-deviating shoe produced significantly greater cartilage compression in the medial-tibial area of the knee joint.

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Don’t forget to also check on compression, caching, and, importantly, image file sizes.

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One of the most promising so far, Silver said, is video compression, where there are many different ways to compress a video signal, but no clear rules about which one is best for different kinds of video.

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In reality, some sequences are much more likely than others, and the entropy rate is much lower, allowing for greater compression.

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This flexibility helps the beetle absorb compression in a part of its body that is safer to squish.

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Although input costs also rise, the boost to nominal sales more than offsets inflation-driven margin compression.

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Still, Teads had anticipated the update would be a “nonevent” for its business because the company had for years focused on file-size compression in order for ads to load quickly, said Jeremy Arditi, the company’s chief commercial officer.

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Should it fail, the fluid can generally be pumped out by alternate compression of the tube and the bulb.

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