For the case of distinct eigenvalues of the left Cauchy-Green tensor universal relations for a transversely isotropic elastic material are expressed in a compact form. Also, two new universal relations are derived for an incompressible transversely isotropic elastic material. Key Wolds: universal manifold, incompressible materials, simple shear, annular wedge 1. INTRODUcnON A universal relation...

Hedgehog (HH) is a major secreted morphogen involved in development, stem cell maintenance and oncogenesis [1, 2]. In Drosophila wing imaginal discs, HH produced in the posterior compartment diffuses into the anterior compartment to control target gene transcription via the transcription factor Cubitus interruptus (CI). The first steps in the reception and transduction of the HH signal are medi...

Abstract In this work, we exploit the Grover operator for the weight analysis of a Boolean function, specifically to solve the weight-decision problem. The weight w is the fraction of all possible inputs for which the output is 1. The goal of the weight-decision problem is to find the exact weight w from the given two weights w1 and w2 satisfying a general weight condition as w1 + w2 = 1 and 0 ...

weak interaction theories en vogue. Effects of short range correlations (SRC) have been taken into account as exactly as possible3-4. The results (due to admixtures only) obtained for various strong and weak N-N-potentials are far away from agreement with most other calculations done up to now (see Refs. quoted in 4 ). No weak interaction theory seems to be able to explain the experimental valu...

The scalable and sustainable production of hydrogen fuel through water splitting demands efficient and robust Earth-abundant catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Building on promising metal compounds with high HER catalytic activity, such as pyrite structure cobalt disulphide (CoS2), and substituting non-metal elements to tune the hydrogen adsorption free energy could lead to fu...

The development of cheap and efficient catalytic electrodes is of great importance, to promote the sluggish overall water-splitting systems associated with the large-scale application of clean and renewable energy technologies. In this work, we report the controlled synthesis of pyrite-type bimetallic Ni-doped CoS2 nanoneedle (NN) arrays supported on stainless steel (SS) (designated as NixCo1−x...