Abstract Developing high-performance composite materials is of great significance as a strong support for high-end manufacturing. However, the design and optimization lack theoretical basis guidance scheme. Compared with traditional materials, natural are composed relatively limited components but exhibit better mechanical properties through ingenious reasonable synthetic strategies. Based on t...

Rapid advancements in the medical sciences have changed the understanding of the diseases down to the molecular level and in turn revolutionized the diagnostics and therapeutics. Similarly, architectural and engineering progression has reshaped the outlooks of the hospitals with the aim of comforting the patients. Despite all that, hospital environments remain a source of infection for the alre...

The article compares William Hogarth's Gin Lane and Beer Street with texts by his contemporary John Wesley, spiritus rector of the Methodist movement. Although Hogarth had portrayed the Methodist religious movement in some of his prints as dangerously enthusiastic, both men defended a similar agenda concerning alcohol consumption. The similarities in their two ways of understanding the issue ca...