We consider deflections of a thin rectangular elastic plate that is submerged within a Newtonian fluid. The plate is clamped along one edge and supported horizontally over a plane horizontal wall. We consider both external driving, where the clamped edge is vibrated vertically at high frequencies, and thermal driving, where the plate fluctuates under Brownian motion. In both cases, the amplitud...

Growth plate, named also as physis, is the anatomical structure responsible for the bone growth. Apart from numerous biological and biochemical factors, biomechanics has also strong influence on its functioning. Loadings acting on the bone element during its development can change (increase or decrease) the velocity of growth. This way mechanobiological processes influence the skeletal developm...

We consider the problem of implementing mutually unbiased bases (MUB) for a polarization qubit with only one wave plate, the minimum number of wave plates. We show that one wave plate is sufficient to realize two MUB as long as its phase shift (modulo 360°) ranges between 45° and 315°. It can realize three MUB (a complete set of MUB for a qubit) if the phase shift of the wave plate is within [1...

The flow field and the energy transport near thermoacoustic couples are simulated using a 2D full Navier-Stokes solver. The thermoacoustic couple plate is maintained at a constant temperature; plate lengths, which are "short" and "long" compared with the particle displacement lengths of the acoustic standing waves, are tested. Also investigated are the effects of plate spacing and the amplitude...

The majority of scientific papers focusing on wood classification for pencil manufacturing take into account defects and visual appearance. Traditional methodologies are based on texture analysis by co-occurrence matrix, by image modeling, or by tonal measures over the plate surface. In this work, we propose to classify plates of wood without biological defects like insect holes, nodes, and cra...

PURPOSE To determine whether there were differences between plate position in patients who had postoperative flexor tendon ruptures following volar plate fixation of distal radius fractures and those who did not. METHODS Three blinded reviewers measured the volar plate prominence and position on the lateral radiographs of 8 patients treated for flexor tendon ruptures and 17 matched control pa...

A heuristic algorithm was developed to maximize compound diversity within a subset of screening plates used in high throughput screening (HTS) to initiate the drug discovery process. The approach overcame the challenge of combinatorial explosion for selecting plate subsets with maximum compound diversity. The method yielded novel forms of plate-based diversity subsets (PBDS) for HTS screening i...

The pars plana model of the Ahmed Glaucoma Valve (AGV) is inserted into the vitreous cavity through a sclerostomy, and has a specially designed clip anchors that it in place and avoids tube kinking. The tube deliver aqueous from within the eye to the episcleral plate covered by Tenon’s capsule and conjunctiva, which stimulates fibrovascular encapsulation around the plate. This article elucidate...

Metamaterial structures have unique properties in controlling the propagation of electromagnetic waves. In this work, we analyze the effect of artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) surface strips on the bottom face of an oversized parallel plate waveguide to enhance the wave guidance within it. The results using these configurations in a linear slot array antenna fed by a rectangular parallel pla...

The far-infrared properties of spruce wood are examined with a terahertz time-domain spectrometer. The solid wood is shown to exhibit both birefringence and diattenuation. The birefringence properties are sufficient for construction of a quarter-wave plate operating at 0.36 THz, and a half-wave plate operating at 0.71 THz. The origin of the birefringence is attributed to preferential fiber orie...