Throughout history, energy consumption and the demand for resources have gradually increased. The construction industry, by direct or indirect actions, consumes over 50% of the energy produced, is responsible for 30% of the CO2 emissions, and consumes more raw material than any other industrial activity. Architecture alone cannot solve global environmental problems, but it can contribute signif...

AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of the study was to develop standards for the prefabrication of free microvascular flaps in an animal model, followed by their application in clinical practice, and quantitative/qualitative microscopic assessment of the extent of development of a new microvascular network. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was carried out in 10 experimental pigs. As the first stage, a to...

nanocomposites made of carbon nanotube (cnt) bundles have attracted researchers’ attention due to their unusual properties such as: light weight, flexibility and stiffness.  in this paper, the effects of straight and rope-shaped bundles on nanocomposite effective mechanical properties are investigated.  first, fea models are created consisting of cnts with different shapes of straight and rope-...

The postnatal changes in resting muscle tension were investigated at 20 degrees C by using small muscle fiber bundles isolated from either the extensor digitorum longus or the soleus of both neonatal (7-21 days old) and adult rats. The results show that the tension-extension characteristics of the bundles depended on the age of the rats. For example, both the extensor digitorum longus and soleu...

Semantic processing from parafoveal words is an elusive phenomenon in alphabetic languages, but it has been demonstrated only for a restricted set of non-compound Chinese characters. Using the gaze contingent boundary paradigm, this experiment examined whether parafoveal lexical and sub-lexical semantic information was extracted from compound preview characters. Results generalized parafoveal s...

In this paper we introduce the notion of singular evolutoid set which is all points evolutoids a fixed smooth planar curve with at most cusp singularities. By Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for Coherent Tangent Bundles over Surfaces Boundary (Theorem 2.20 in [4]) applied to extended front hedgehog obtain an integral equality periodic curves.

Results on derivations and automorphisms of some quantum and classical Poisson algebras, as well as characterizations of manifolds by the Lie structure of such algebras, are revisited and extended. We prove in particular somehow unexpected fact that the algebras of linear differential operators acting on smooth sections of two real vector bundles of rank 1 are isomorphic as Lie algebras if and ...

Abstract In the popular class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), a threshold switching function is used to identify who multidimensionally poor. This paper shows that weights cut-off employed in this procedure are generally not unique such functions implicitly assume all groups deprivation indicators some fixed size perfect substitutes. To address these...

The Lie derivation of multivector fields along multivector fields has been introduced by Schouten (see cite{Sc, S}), and studdied for example in cite{M} and cite{I}. In the present paper we define the Lie derivation of differential forms along multivector fields, and we extend this concept to covariant derivation on tangent bundles and vector bundles, and find natural relations between them and...