The continuum mechanic simulation of micro-structural damage process is important in the study of ductile fracture mechanics. In this paper, the continuum damage mechanics model formulation proposed by Lematire has been validated against ductile damage evolution experimentally measured in A533B-C1 steel under stress triaxiality conditions. First, a procedure to identify the model parameters f...

Winter oilseed rape (WOSR) is Europe’s prime crop and grown for biofuel edible oil production. To investigate the effects of climate change on yield winter rape, two models (HERMES HUME-OSR) were used. This study investigated sensitivity model parameters (as a proxy plant traits) under change. For both models, global analysis was performed current temperatures, an increase 2 4 °C, in combinatio...

Most real-world judgments and decisions require the consideration of multiple types of evidence. For example, judging the severity of environmental damage, medical illness, or negative economic trends often involves tracking and integrating evidence from multiple sources (i.e. different natural disasters, physical symptoms, or financial indicators). We hypothesized that the requirement to track...

Within multiscale brain dynamics, the structure-function relationship between cellular changes at a lower scale and coordinated oscillations at a higher scale is not well understood. This relationship may be particularly relevant for understanding functional impairments after a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) when current neuroimaging methods do not reveal morphological changes to the brain ...

Last time we saw an early example of using coalescent theory to distinguish between two scenarios describing the history of populations. In the example we considered, Knowles [7] compared two scenarios, the “widespread ancestor” and the “multiple glacial refugia” scenarios. To make the comparison she simulated data under the “widespread ancestor” hypothesis, collected the samples into a multipl...