Puncture force and energy were measured at different loading velocities and probe diameters for two cultivars of sea buckthorn berries of various sizes at several ambient temperatures. In addition to the puncture properties, the firmness-temperature coefficient, the compression coefficient (Kc), shear coefficient (Ks), and the apparent modulus of elasticity were determined. The tests showed tha...

Abstract In this work we propose an approximate numerical method for pricing of options for the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) diffusion model. We prove firstly the existence and uniqueness of the solution in weighted Sobolev space, and then we propose the finite element method and finite difference method to solve the considered problem. Therefore, we compare the obtained results by the...

The transmission coefficient for vibrational waves crossing an abrupt junction between two thin elastic plates of different widths is calculated. These calculations are relevant to ballistic phonon thermal transport at low temperatures in mesoscopic systems and the Q for vibrations in mesoscopic oscillators. Complete results are derived in a simple scalar model of the elastic waves, and results...

Ultrasonic elastography, via vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE), enables to assess, under active mechanical constraints, the elasticity of the liver, correlating with fibrosis stages. On the other hand, the same VCTE probe can also be used in passive mode, acquiring RF lines at different locations in the liver. This paper presents a thorough evaluation of passive-mode RF spectra...

Plaque elasticity (i.e., modulogram) and morphology are good predictors of plaque vulnerability. Recently, our group developed an intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) elasticity reconstruction method which was successfully implemented in vitro using vessel phantoms. In vivo IVUS modulography, however, remains a major challenge as the motion of the heart prevents accurate strain field estimation. We ...

We prove continuous dependence on the intensity coefficient and continuous dependence on the external data in the theory of magneto-elasticity. We do not require the Lamé coefficients to be positive. We use logarithmic convexity arguments similar to those of Ames and Straughan (1992) in classical thermoelasticity. 1. Introduction. In recent years, much attention has been directed to the knowled...

Current means of measuring RT-induced fibrosis are subjective. We evaluated the DermaLab suction cup system to measure objectively skin deflection as a surrogate for fibrosis. Sixty-nine patients with E-STS were treated with limb-sparing surgery and 50-66 Grays (Gy) of RT. Using a "scleroderma" DermaLab Suction Cup, the skin stiffness was measured by two clinicians. The National Cancer Institut...

-A general formalism for Metabolic Control Analysis is derived using general sensitivity analysis and structural information of the metabolic pathway inherent in the stoichiometry matrix. The equations derived provide a general procedure for calculating the control coefficients from the elasticity coefficients using matrix algebra, and is valid for any pathway stoichiometry. The procedure dimin...

We establish a homogenization result and a corrector result for a vibration problem of elasticity. We assume that the data depend in a periodic way on a small parameter ε. We assume also that the Lamé coefficients take possibly high values in a periodical set of disconnected inclusions and take values of the order ε2 elsewhere. In the fibered case, torsional vibrations take place at an infinite...