Shards of broken glass

Evidence for broken ergodicity in strain glass

Yu Wang,1,2 Xiaobing Ren,1,2,* Kazuhiro Otsuka,1,2 and Avadh Saxena3 1Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center and Department of Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2National Institute for Material Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan 3Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA Received 19 June 2007; revised...

Penetrating retro-orbital foreign body – large glass shards: A maxillofacial surgery case report

OBJECTIVES This case report looks at a 53-year-old patient who had suffered a penetrating foreign body injury to the retro-orbital space and the surgical approach taken to remove the large glass fragments found and to correct the damage caused. Having fallen while holding a drinking glass, this patient suffered multiple laceration injuries to the maxillofacial region upon the glass shattering i...

Eruption and emplacement timescales of ignimbrite super-eruptions from thermo-kinetics of glass shards

Yan Lavallée*, Fabian B. Wadsworth, Jérémie Vasseur, James K. Russell, Graham D. M. Andrews, Kai-Uwe Hess, Felix W. von Aulock, Jackie E. Kendrick, Hugh Tuffen, Andrew J. Biggin and Donald B. Dingwell 1 Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2 Earth and Environment, Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich, Munich, Germany 3 Volcanology and Petrology Laborator...

Digital Shards

he Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the federal agency in charge of security for the nation's transportation systems, had an internet policy that barred employees from accessing web sites containing 'controversial opinions.' In July 2010, TSA dropped that ban, most probably because such a broad ban would violate TSA employees' First Amendment rights. " 1 " Employees using company-o...

SHARDS: Fragment Resolution in Dialogue