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Glass transition intro

The glass transition, is a continuous and reversible process wherin the viscosity of a liquid or soft solid dramatically but smoothly increases to a degree such that it behaves as a rigid solid (a glass) over practical timescales of observation. This process is also known as vitrification.

The glass-transition temperature T_g of a material characterizes the range of temperatures over which this glass transition occurs (as an experimental definition, typically marked as 100 s of relaxation time). It is always lower than the melting temperature, T_m, of the crystalline state of the material, if one exists.

Antiplasticizer

Antiplasticizers are additives that suppress the glass transition temperature of a material while increasing the modulus of the material in its glassy state. Antiplasticizers are so named because of this stiffening effect, which contrasts with the softening induced by plasticizer additives. Examples antiplasticizers include the use of glycerol to antiplasticize trehalose and the antiplasticizing effect of water on some food products.

Effects of Antiplasticizers

In addition to reducing the glass transition temperature and stiffening the material in its glass state, antiplasticizers have several other affects on material properties. First, they reduce the fragility of the glass transition, meaning that they broaden the temperature range over which the glass transition occurs . Second, they typically reduce the Debye-Waller factor of the glass .

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Party comparisons

The following table lists some political ideologies most often associated with the five U.S. political parties with the most members, as well the official party positions on a number of reformist issues where positions diverge. Nuances may be found in the parties' respective platforms. Not all members of a party subscribe to all of its officially held positions, the usual degree of variation generally being higher for the larger parties. Note that party members may hold different views on legislation to be enacted at the state or federal levels.

Policy Positions of Major Modern United States Political Parties

Issues	Democratic Party	Republican Party
Primary Related Subjects	American Liberalism Modern liberalism Progressivism	Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism
Legal Abortion	Supports "safe and legal access" to abortion	Opposes legal abortion, without explicit exception for rape or incest. Supports a "human life amendment" to the United States Constitution declaring that life begins at conception.
Same-Sex Marriages	Supports right of same-sex couples to marry	Opposes legalization of same-sex marriage
Limiting Private Financing of Campaigns	No	No
Health care	Supports the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act	Opposes and calls for repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Taxation	Supports progressive taxation	Calls for flatter taxation
Immigration Policy	Supports "comprehensive" immigration reform, including a DREAM Act and border enforcement.	Supports self deportation, a double-layered border fence, state enforcement of immigration law, and english as an official language.
Capital Punishment	Supports capital punishment, with DNA testing where appropriate	Supports capital punishment
Civilian Gun Control	Supports right to own firearms, subject to regulation. Supports reinstatement of federal assault weapons ban and closure of the "gun show loophole"	Supports right to own firearms. Opposes civilian gun control. Opposes reinstatement of the federal assault weapons ban.

Political parties talk page

I have again reworked the positions table in order to provide a more accurate, verifiable description of the party positions. Specifically, I have addressed several problems. First, a simple yes/no response is often inadequate to accurately reflect the official party position on a topic, and in some cases can be misleading. Second, although there was reason to favor the use of red and green position color-coding for clarity, the color-coding is faced with the issue that it is fundamentally dependent on how the topic is framed; ie., by changing the topic wording one can switch the color of the parties. The coloration therefore does not provide useful information in this case, and is particularly problematic from a neutrality standpoint since green is commonly viewed as good, while read is commonly viewed as negative or dangerous. As with the yes/no problem, it also tends to oversimplify the issue. Addressing both of these issues requires changing the format of the table to contain a brief blurb descriptive of the party's position. For reasons that have been discussed in previous years on this talk page, these positions are restricted to those expressed in the parties' platforms, with citations to the parties' platforms and where possible and necessary to independent third parties clarifying the meaning of the platform planks. However, in the current format this revision faces the problem of severely overcrowding the table and potentially rendering unreadable. Given this situation, the new table is restricted to the Republican and Democratic parties on the following bases. Given the relative memberships of these two parties to the other three parties previously included in this table, it is likely that the minor parties were being given undue weight.