Much ado about shear correction factors in Timoshenko beam theory

Much ado about nothing?

I t all started with the submission of an unsolicited review on idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis by IOACHIMESCU et al. [1]. During the review process of this excellent manuscript, the idea evolved to launch a whole series on rare (orphan) interstitial lung disorders in the European Respiratory Journal. Why bother? Well, admittedly, these diseases are rare, but for the affected patient that d...

Much ado about nothing?

Much Ado about Nogo

Three proteins in mature myelin (Nogo, MAG, and OMgp) have been purported to be critical in causing both regenerative failure and minimal sprouting after CNS injury. However, the role of this repulsive trio in vivo has been controversial. Lee et al., in this issue of Neuron, provide evidence that genetically deleting all three major myelin inhibitors either singly or all together does not resul...

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Much Ado About Two

This article is an Isabelle formalisation of a paper with the same. In a similar way as Knuth’s 0-1-principle for sorting algorithms, that paper develops a “0-1-2-principle” for parallel prefix computations.