We use four linear constitutive relations to study "nite deformations of a biaxially loaded elastic membrane, triaxially loaded cube, and simple extensional and simple shearing deformations of an elastic body. In each case, the body is assumed to be isotropic and homogeneous. It is shown that only the neoHookean relation (a linear relation between the Cauchy stress tensor and the left Cauchy}Gr...

Excerpt] Increasingly, firms find themselves, either by circumstances or choice, operating in highly turbulent business environments. For them, competitiveness is a constantly moving target. Many, it appears, are satisfied to enjoin the struggle with patched up business models and warmed over bureaucracies. But some, convinced that this is a losing proposition, are aggressively exploring and ev...

1. Landy SJ, Donnai D. Incontinentia pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome). J Med Genet 1993;30:53-9. 2. Pinheiro A, Mathew MC, Thomas M, Jacob M, Srivastava VM, Cherian R, et al. The clinical profile of children in India with pigmentary anomalies along the lines of Blaschko and central nervous system manifestations. Pediatr Dermatol 2007;24:11-7. 3. Hadj-Rabia S, Froidevaux D, Bodak N, Hamel-Te...

In recent years many authors have advocated prompt active treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax in the belief that patients treated in this way recover more quickly and suffer fewer relapses (Lenox-Smith, 1962; Smith and Rothwell, 1962; Hamel, Briggs, and Schulkins, 1963). The material on which this attitude is based is very often related to hospital admissions only and does not reflect the ov...

We study the existence of generalized transition fronts for a bistable reaction diffusion equation, ut − ∆u = f(u), in a heterogeneous medium, Ω = RN\K where K is a compact set of RN , with Neumann boundary condition and t ∈ R. In the paper, Bistable traveling waves around an obstacle (2009), H. Berestycki, F. Hamel and H. Matano prove the existence of a generalized transition front when K is s...

The aim of the present study is to examine the steady flow of an incompressible conducting viscous fluid in convergent-divergent channels under the effect of an external homogeneous magnetic field. The non-dimensional governing equation for the considered flow field is solved in a power series to examine the instability of the problem using Hermite-Pade ́ approximation technique computed numeri...

This experiment aims at establishing the ability of the endomycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices to suppress the plant pathogen Pythium ultimum in cherry tomato. A study published in Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology in 1994 showed that Glomus intraradices suppresses Pythium ultimum in Tagetes patula (french marigold) (St-Arnaud, Fortin, Caron, & Hamel, 1994). Pythium ultimum and other Pyth...