Succinonitrile is a material of plastic crystal nature arising from the low energy barrier between synclinal and antiperiplanar isomerization around the central C-C bond, while its high polarity makes it an efficient solvent for a wide variety of salts including ionic liquids. A prediction of the equilibrium dihedral angle - in the absence of experimental data - suffers from the shallow potenti...

We suggest a theoretical picture for distributions of plastic deformations experienced by a sliding Charge Density Wave in the course of the conversion from the normal current at the contact to the collective one in the bulk. Several mechanisms of phase slips via creation and proliferation of dislocations are compared. The results are applied to space resolved X-ray [1,2], multi-contact [3,4] a...

the development of yielded or failure zone due to an engineering construction is a subject of study in different disciplines. in petroleum engineering, depletion from and injection of gas into a porous rock can cause development of a yield zone around the reservoir. studying this phenomenon requires elasto-plastic analysis of geomaterial, in this case the porous rocks. in this study, which is a...

Guided wave detection using different fiber optic sensors and their applications in damage detection for composite laminates were systematically investigated and compared in this paper. Two types of fiber optic sensors, namely fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) and Doppler effect-based fiber optic (FOD) sensors, were addressed and guided wave detection systems were constructed for both types. Guided wa...

Sea stars are some of the largest mobile animals able to live in the harsh flow environment of wave-exposed, rocky intertidal shores. In addition, some species, such as the northeastern Pacific Pisaster ochraceus, are ecologically significant predators in a broad range of environments, from sheltered lagoons to the most wave-exposed shorelines. How they function and survive under such an extrem...

DiScuSSion: The integrated pathway has seen significant growth and surpassed the independent pathway in number of residency positions. During the study period, females saw a significant representation trend increase in the integrated pathway, but not the independent pathway. However, the integrated pathway also saw a statistically significant decline in Black representation. Overall, the percen...

The evaluation of fallopian tubes after failed tubal ligation can be difficult because conventional histopathological techniques are unable to section the metal clips when in situ. Once the clips have been removed, any evidence of tube patency is lost. This report describes a technique of embedding and sectioning that enables sections to be made while the metal clips are still in situ. This is ...

DiScuSSion: The integrated pathway has seen significant growth and surpassed the independent pathway in number of residency positions. During the study period, females saw a significant representation trend increase in the integrated pathway, but not the independent pathway. However, the integrated pathway also saw a statistically significant decline in Black representation. Overall, the percen...