A sliding member comprising at least one sliding layer including a solid lubricant and at least one thermosetting resin with which particles of the solid lubricant are held together, the solid lubricant containing 10-40 vol. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of mitigating fouling in a wash unit by introducing into the feed stream an effective amount of an additive including: an inorganic salt of dithionite; and an epsilon caprolactam or a 6-amino caproic acid derivable therefrom. The equalizer operates at the sampling rate 1Ts, asynchronous to the data rate 1T. If the user entered search string is a single string of dictionary word or words or the dictionary mode is elected, then synonyms for that search string are used to generate the augmented search string for the final context-based search operation. A heat plastic forming is applied to the intermediate material at a temperature 650 C.