For solving problems of the theory elasticity using nonlinear models, question convexity potential used and proof uniqueness solution are decisive importance. The present work is devoted to determination conditions for local strict model, which ensure problem in a sufficiently small neighborhood desired solution. considered model generalization scalar rheological brittle solid deformation case ...

Sensory testing (ST) as a parameter in assessing nerve damage and as a guide in anti-reaction treatment is discussed in comparison with established methods like voluntary muscle testing (VMT) and motor nerve conduction velocity (MCV). Sensory testing is shown to be a valuable addition to the existing tests and may even be used as a single parameter.

Background: Occupational health is a sensitive field in many countries where occupational exposure needs attention due to the lack of awareness. Several businesses, including leather, textile, iron, steel, and dyeing industries use a variety of mutagenic and genotoxic chemicals. Exposure to these chemicals may pose serious health risks, including genetic damage to workers. Comet assay is a tech...

My intention in this paper is to outline and motivate a novel theory of syntactic bootstrapping, Exemplar-Based Phonological Bootstrapping (EBPB), based on Stochastic Tree-Substitution Grammar. Because I have outlined the basic structure of STSG in other places for assessed work on this degree, I will not recapitulate that work in the body of the present paper, but will instead quote it in full...

In various oxide materials, irradiation with high-energy heavy ions creates damage via electronic energy deposition. In the electronic energy loss regime, in most cases, the electronic stopping power, Se, is the parameter that dominates the damage creation. Some previous studies have shown that also the ion velocity affects the damage creation [1,2]. The ion velocity dependence is important bec...

We investigate compressive failure of heterogeneous materials on the basis of a continuous progressive-damage model. The model explicitly accounts for tensile and shear local damage and reproduces the main features of compressive failure of brittle materials like rocks or ice. We show that the size distribution of damage clusters, as well as the evolution of an order parameter--the size of the ...

This letter demonstrates the potential for using diffuse ultrasound measurements to detect damage in concrete. Two different solutions to the diffusion equation, an infinite three-dimensional (3D) volume model that neglects geometric boundaries and a finite 3D cuboid model, are used for the required curve fitting procedure to determine the influence of geometric boundaries on the solution. The ...