Microorganisms are able to survive and grow in changing environments by activating stress adaptation mechanisms which may enhance bacterial robustness. Stress-induced enhanced robustness complicates the predictability of microbial inactivation. Using psychrotolerant Bacillus weihenstephanensis strain KBAB4 as a model, we investigated the impact of the culturing temperature on mild-oxidative-str...

Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) undergo stress and temperature induced reversible diffusionless crystalline phase transformations between a high synmaetry phase (austenite) stable at high tenlperatures and low stresses, and a low symmetry phase (martensite) stable at low temperatures and high stresses. Unusual macroscopic effects arise from these crystallographic changes, chiefly shape memory and su...

Signaling pathways controlling biotic and abiotic stress responses may interact synergistically or antagonistically. To identify the similarities and differences among responses to diverse stresses, we analyzed previously published microarray data on the transcriptomic responses of Arabidopsis to infection with Botrytis cinerea (a biotic stress), and to cold, drought, and oxidative stresses (ab...

The aim of this thesis paper, to create a numerical model to examine the residual stresses induced by orthogonal machining in the finished work piece and the model is validated by comparing with experimental result. The finite element method is used to simulate and analyze the residual stresses induced by a orthogonal metal cutting process. A Dynamics explicit time integration technique with Ar...

X-ray diffraction, optical microscopy and microhardness testing have been used to study properties which develop in micro-cut AISI 1045 steel. The influence of the ploughing effect on residual stresses, surface deformation and work hardening, and the tool quality were investigated. Tensile residual stresses, caused by the heat generated in the material during the cutting process, were observed ...

Cells in early stages of chromosome condensation are very vulnerable, and many stresses that do not damage DNA induce a transient return to late G2 phase. Such stresses include the drug-induced disassembly of microtubules, which triggers an ATM-independent G2 checkpoint pathway involving a novel ubiquitin ligase.

The stability of compressive residual stresses and the stability of strain hardening states are seen to have high technical importance. For a laser beam welded AlMgSiCu-alloy, results of applied stress and residual stress relaxation at elevated temperatures 100<T<150°C are presented. These experiments prove the existence of back stresses. The level of these stresses can be estimated to be in th...