A region of resistive domains is found in composite superconductors with thermal and electrical contact resistance between the normal metal matrix and the superconductor. The V-I characteristic of 3 sample with resistive domains is found. It is shown that the existence of resistive domains leads to the emergence of hysteresis upon decay and recovery of superconductivity in the presence of trans...

The aims of this study were to test for the presence of a relative age effect among male (n = 119,715) and female (n = 12,823) members of the shooting sports federation, and to determine whether any such effect has an impact on dropout from the sport. For the boys and girls, the results show a uniform distribution of dropout. A relative age effect was not found for the girls, showing that in fe...

The carbon concentration trapped in films of austenite between parallel platelets of bainite is often found to be much larger than that in the larger blocks of austenite between sheaves of bainite. The effect of this non-uniform distribution of carbon on the overall transformation kinetics of bainite is examined theoretically. It is found that the trapping of carbon in the films of austenite ac...

From a suitable integral representation of the Laplace transform of a positive semi–definite quadratic form of independent real random variables with not necessarily identical densities a univariate integral representation is derived for the cumulative distribution function of the sample variance of i.i.d. random variables with a gamma density, supplementing former formulas of the author. Furth...

We describe a uniformly fast algorithm for generating points ~x uniformly in a hypercube with the restriction that the difference between each pair of coordinates is bounded. We discuss the quality of the algorithm in the sense of its usage of pseudo-random source numbers, and present an interesting result on the correlation between the coordinates. ∗ [email protected] † [email protected]

It has been commonly recognized that residual dipolar coupling data provide a measure of quality for protein structures. To quantify this observation, a database of 100 single-domain proteins has been compiled where each protein was represented by two independently solved structures. Backbone 1H-15N dipolar couplings were simulated for the target structures and then fitted to the model structur...

A novel hybrid mesoporous material functionalized with carboxy groups was synthesized by self-assembly of a novel building block consisting of a cubic siloxane unit and a long organic chain with an ester bond and the following hydrolysis of ester bonds, representing a promising approach to designing hybrid structures at both molecular and mesoscopic scales.

when structures are subjected to strong ground motion excitations, structural elements may be prone to yielding, and consequently experience significant levels of inelastic behavior. the effects of inelastic behavior on the distribution of peak floor loads are not explicitly accounted for in current seismic code procedures. during recent years, many studies have been conducted to develop new de...

Many distributions have been used as lifetime models. In this article, we propose a new threeparameter Weibull–Pareto distribution, which can produce the most important hazard rate shapes, namely, constant, increasing, decreasing, bathtub, and upsidedown bathtub. Various structural properties of the new distribution are derived including explicit expressions for the moments and incomplete momen...