X. Zhao and co-workers develop on page 4035 a new biocompatible hydrogel system that is extremely tough and stretchable and can be 3D printed into complex structures, such as the multilayer mesh shown. Cells encapsulated in the tough and printable hydrogel maintain high viability. 3D-printed structures of the tough hydrogel can sustain high mechanical loads and deformations.

Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a rapidly evolving technology with several potential applications in the diagnosis and management of cardiac disease. Recently, 3D printing (i.e. rapid prototyping) derived from 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has become possible. Due to the multiple steps involved and the specific equipment required for each step, it might be difficult to start impl...

Conventional education results in unsatisfactory morphological understanding of acetabular fractures due to lack of three-dimensional (3D) details and tactile feedback of real fractures. Virtual reality (VR) and 3D printing (3DP) techniques are widely applied in teaching. The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of physical model (PM), VR and 3DP models in education of morphological...

We study conservation laws and potential symmetries of (systems of) differential equations applying equivalence relations generated by point transformations between the equations. A Fokker–Planck equation and the Burgers equation are considered as examples. Using reducibility of them to the one-dimensional linear heat equation, we construct complete hierarchies of local and potential conservati...

Observations have been conducted on the recently discovered short period pulsar PSR 1951+32 in the radio nebula CTB 80 in an attempt to detect pulsed infrared emission. A strong upper limit is placed on any pulsed, infrared component below that expected from a formally proposed optical candidate for the pulsar. This limit is consistent with proposed scaling laws for high-energy emission.

Modular programs are built as a combination of separate modules, which may be developed and veriied separately. Therefore, in order to reason over such programs, compositionality plays a crucial role: the semantics of the whole program must be obtainable as a simple function from the semantics of its individual modules. In the eld of logic programming, the need for a compositional semantics has...

Extreme Value theory is part and parcel of any study of order statistics in one-dimension. Our aim here is to consider such large sample theory for the maximum distance to the origin, and the related maximum “interpoint distance,” in multi-dimensions. We show that for the spherically symmetric families of densities, these statistics have a Gumbel type limit, generalizing several existing result...