Background: In focal repair of joint cartilage and meniscus, initial stiffness and strength of repairs are generally much less than surrounding tissue. This increases early failure potential. Secure primary fixation of the repair material is also a problem. Acrylamide polymer double-network (DN) hydrogels are candidate-improved repair materials. DN gels have exceptional strength and toughness c...

Let (R, m) be a Cohen-Macaulay local ring of dimension d > 0, I an m-primary ideal of R and K an ideal containing I. When depth G(I) ≥ d− 1 and r(I|K) < ∞, we present an upper bound on the second fiber coefficient f2(I, K) of the fiber cones FK(I), and also provide a characterization, in terms of f2(I, K), of the condition depth FK(I) ≥ d− 2.

let $l$ be a completely regular frame and $mathcal{r}l$ be the ‎ring of continuous real-valued functions on $l$‎. ‎we show that the‎ ‎lattice $zid(mathcal{r}l)$ of $z$-ideals of $mathcal{r}l$ is a‎ ‎normal coherent yosida frame‎, ‎which extends the corresponding $c(x)$‎ ‎result of mart'{i}nez and zenk‎. ‎this we do by exhibiting‎ ‎$zid(mathcal{r}l)$ as a quotient of $rad(mathcal{r}l)$‎, ‎the‎ ‎...

Microperforated panel (MPP) absorbers are promising as a basis for the next-generation of sound absorbing materials. A microperforated panel absorber is backed by an air-cavity with a rigid-back wall and its typical use is for a sound-absorbing ceiling. However, MPPs have some limitations and disadvantages: its sound absorbing mechanism is limited to a Helmholtz resonator caused by perforations...

This article presents decoupling n-times absorbing boundary conditions designed to model acoustic and elastic wave propagation in a 2D transversely isotropic (TI) medium. More general n-times boundary conditions with absorbing parameters are also obtained by cascading first-order differential operators with parameters. These boundary conditions are approximated with simple finite-difference sch...

In this paper, we introduce and study graded weakly 1-absorbing prime ideals in commutative rings. Let \(G\) be a group \(R\) \(G\)-graded ring with nonzero identity \(1\neq0\). A proper ideal \(P\) of is called if for each nonunits \(x,y,z\in h(R)\) \(0\neq xyz\in P\), then either \(xy\in P\) or \(z\in P\). We give many properties characterizations ideals. Moreover, investigate under homomorph...