Micromechanics I ～Basic Discussion～

Scientific Discussion I. Scientific Discussion

The micromechanics of three-dimensional collagen-I gels

We study the micromechanics of collagen-I gel with the goal of bridging the gap between theory and experiment in the study of biopolymer networks. Three-dimensional images of fluorescently labeled collagen are obtained by confocal microscopy and the network geometry is extracted using a 3d network skeletonization algorithm. Each fiber is modeled as a worm-like-chain that resists stretching and ...

Panel discussion section I

Kochukhov: The Doppler imaging problem is intrinsically ill-conditioned. It is not correct to characterize this problem by the number of unknowns. We are using regularization, and regularization effectively introduces a set of additional equations which smoothes the map in our case; in the case of the maximum entropy method, it selects an image with maximum entropy. So actually if I count equat...

Discussion: Session I

Background: Bacterial meningitis remains a source of substantial morbidity and mortality in childhood. During the last decades gradual changes have been observed in the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis, related to the introduction of new polysaccharide and conjugate vaccines. The study presents an overview of the epidemiological patterns of acute bacterial meningitis in a tertiary children ...

Residuated Basic Logic I

We study the residuated basic logic (RBL) of residuated basic algebra in which the basic implication of Visser’s basic propositional logic (BPL) is interpreted as the right residual of a non-associative binary operator · (product). We develop an algebraic system SRBL of residuated basic algebra by which we show that RBL is a conservative extension of BPL. We present the sequent formalization LR...