Nanomedicine research raises ethical concerns beyond those covered by the Common Rule. Investigators and research institutions should comply with environmental and occupational health laws protect research staff and the environment. Though the IRB should concentrate on risks to human research participants, it should also consider risks to identifiable third parties. Investigators should also ad...

More than the previous century, destruction caused on environment potentially has been highest in last decade or so. A report by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) places it as fourth-largest criminal operation world, just after counterfeiting, human trafficking, and drug smuggling. It is very recent that environmental damage treated at par with a activity, looming crisis of climate ch...

This paper investigates the effect of environmental conditions on cohesive law composite bonded joints under mode I and II loadings. An inverse method recently developed by authors has been used to extract stress-separation relation from experimental load–displacement curve without considering a predefined shape law. Two types adhesively were tested at three different temperatures, −55 °C, room...

Many complex systems that produce cascading events are thought to be selforganized critical (SOC). So far, models of SOC treat a cascade as a spread strictly between adjacent nodes, while in many real systems, e.g., the powergrid or the brain, this restriction is invalid. Here, we demonstrate for the first time SOC behavior in a model for which the spread is non-contiguous, i.e., not restricted...