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На (мой) взгляд-- To my mind the most interesting feature of these models is that they show that hard asperities can produce an "ironing out" of a plastic bulge ahead of the asperity. На первый взгляд - at first sight, at first glance, at first blush, at first consideration; at first; seemingly; on the face of it; on the surface; superficially

 At first sight this approach seems to be anomalous since only positive pressures have been allowed when calculating the orbits.

 At first glance, the rather large tensile stresses appear to be well above the 0.2 percent offset yield strength.

 While it might at first blush appear that this increases the complexity of the system, in fact it doesn't.

 Thus a method that, at first consideration, seems quite promising turns out under closer inspection to have some very discouraging deficiencies.

 Another problem, although seemingly unrelated, shares some common features with that studied here.

 On the face of it this would seem then to run contrary to our theory.

 On the surface, it looks no different from other coals, although it is slightly more brittle.