There are many causes for stones in the urinary tract (Melick and Henneman, 1958; Boyce and Bradshaw, 1961 ; Maurice and Henneman, 1961). These include the presence of urinary solutes in abnormally high concentrations (Hodgkinson and Pyrah, 1958 ; Nordin and Robertson, 1966), a variety of factors diminishing their solubility (Elliot et al., 1961 ; Howard et al., 1962; Metcalfe-Gibson et al., 19...

The concept of spraying thick layer of polymer material onto metal plate has recently received considerable interest in many civilian and military applications. There are numerous analytical and numerical solutions for single thin plates (membrane) made of either a steel or an elastomer. However, solutions for composite plate made of both of the above constituents are lacking. The objective of ...

This paper was presented at the Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials Conference 2008, held in Monterey, CA, March 30 April 4, 2008, and will be published in the conference proceedings. One or more of the authors is a U.S. Government employee working within the scope of his/her position; therefore, the U.S. Government is joint owner of the work. When published, the publisher may assert copyrigh...

Mapping relational data to RDF is an important task for the development of the Semantic Web. To this end, the W3C has recently released a Recommendation for the so-called direct mapping of relational data to RDF. In this work, we propose an enrichment of the direct mapping to make it more faithful by transferring also semantic information present in the relational schema from the relational wor...

Database designers and students of computer science in tertiary institutions find it difficult to learn database theory in which database decomposition is a major aspect. This work presents a visualization tool to simplify the study of decomposition algorithms behaviours which would assist the students and database designers to decompose any relational schema with its functional dependencies in...

Recently, novel and uniform deformation-induced pattern transformations have been found in periodic elastomeric cellular solids upon reaching a critical value of applied load [Mullin, T., Deschanel, S., Bertoldi, K., Boyce, M.C., 2007. Pattern transformation triggered by deformation. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 084301; Boyce, M.C., Prange, S.M., Bertoldi, K., Deschanel, S., Mullin, T., 2008. Mechanics...

Within the scope of our recent approach for Efficient Unsupervised Constitutive Law Identification and Discovery (EUCLID), we propose an unsupervised Bayesian learning framework discovery parsimonious interpretable constitutive laws with quantifiable uncertainties. As in deterministic EUCLID, do not resort to stress data, but only realistically measurable full-field displacement global reaction...

Evidence indicates that maternal prenatal distress predicts problematic health and behavioral outcomes in children as well as infant/child cortisol levels and negative emotionality as reviewed here. Evidence that these physiological and behavioral characteristics themselves moderate environmental effects on development in a "for better and for worse" manner consistent with Belsky's differential...

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