Determination of Inertia Forces Acting on Break Bulk Cargo en Route

Aerodynamic Forces Acting on Valve Discs

Forces Acting on Sessile Droplet on Inclined Surfaces

Although many analytical, experimental and numerical studies have focused on droplet motion, the mechanics of the droplet while still in its static state, and just before motion starts, are not well understood. A study of static droplets would shed light on the threshold voltage (or critical inclination) for initiating electrically (or gravitationally) induced droplet motion. Before the droplet...

Analysis of muscle forces acting on fragments in pelvic fractures.

CT was used in 50 adult pelvic fractures to determine the size and the position of relevant muscles with regard to bony elements in order to calculate muscle forces acting upon certain pelvic portions. Muscle length was measured to calculate muscle volume and physiological muscle cross-section. Among others, the size and direction of muscle forces were calculated for iliac, pubic and ischiadic ...

Inference of Evolutionary Forces Acting on Human Biological Pathways

Because natural selection is likely to act on multiple genes underlying a given phenotypic trait, we study here the potential effect of ongoing and past selection on the genetic diversity of human biological pathways. We first show that genes included in gene sets are generally under stronger selective constraints than other genes and that their evolutionary response is correlated. We then intr...

En route to personalized prophylaxis.

Predicting a patient’s outcome reliably is perhaps the one of the most challenging aspects of the art of medicine. In this issue of Blood, Ay and colleagues introduce science to this art by validating the Khorana risk score (the first risk assessment model that predicts how likely a cancer patient is to develop symptomatic VTE) and confirming the value of 2 biomarkers, D-dimer and soluble P-sel...