Microstructure emission, involving short timescale, often quasi-periodic, intensity fluctuations in subpulse emission, is well known in normal period pulsars. In this Letter, we present the first detections of quasi-periodic microstructure emission from millisecond pulsars (MSPs), from Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope observations of two MSPs at 325 and 610MHz. Similar to the characteristics of ...

This paper studies the joint distribution of tick by tick returns and durations between trades. We build an econometric model for estimating and forecasting the volatility of stock returns using high-frequency data, correcting for the bias incurred by microstructure noise. Three features of the model are worth mentioning: first the conditional volatility adapts a structure which incorporates pa...

Computational models of muscle generally lump the material properties of connective tissue, muscle fibers, and muscle fascicles together into one constitutive relationship that assumes a transversely isotropic microstructure. These models do not take into account how variations in the microstructure of muscle affect its macroscopic material properties. The goal of this work was to develop micro...

There is general agreement that a weld microstructure primarily containing acicular ferrite will exhibit high strength and excellent toughness due to its small grain size, high dislocation density, and the way in which the plates are dispersed in the microstructure (Pargeter, 1983; Sneider and Ken, 1984). In contrast, the presence of allotriomorphic ferrite, ferrite plates with aligned carbides...

The thermal behavior of actomyosin from the porcine skeletal muscle under various heating conditions including retort processing was examined. The physical properties (breaking energy, modulus of elasticity and water release rate) of the heat-induced gels of actomyosin decreased with increasing heating temperature or heating rate. The microstructure of the gel exhibiting lower physical property...

Collagen fibers can be imaged with second harmonic generation (SHG) and are associated with efficient tumor cell locomotion. Preferential locomotion along these fibers correlates with a more aggressively metastatic phenotype, and changes in SHG emission properties accompany changes in metastatic outcome. We therefore attempted to elucidate the cellular and molecular machinery that influences SH...

It is generally accepted that the strength and stiffness of trabecular bone is strongly affected by trabecular microstructure. It has also been hypothesized that stress induced adaptation of trabecular bone is affected by trabecular tissue level stress and/or strain. At this time, however, there is no generally accepted (or easily accomplished) technique for predicting the effect of microstruct...

0026-2714/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.microrel.2012.01.009 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Materi Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Tec China. Tel.: +86 755 26033463; fax: +86 755 260334 E-mail address: [email protected] (M.Y. Li). Orientation imaging microscopy was adopted to characterize the microstructural changes in Sn–Agbased solder interconnect...

The martensite steels produced by quenching and tempering has been used for machine structural use. Martensite in ferrite-martensite dual-phase steels (hereinafter, DP steels) also has important roll in strengthening of the automobile steel sheets. Therefore the importance of analyzing the microstructure and their mechanical properties of the martensite has been increased year by year. Many res...

Complex microstructure changes occur in nuclear fuel and structural materials due to the extreme environments of intense irradiation and high temperature. This paper evaluates the role of the phase field method in predicting the microstructure evolution of irradiated nuclear materials and the impact on their mechanical, thermal, and magnetic properties. The paper starts with an overview of the ...