The collision of the Indian sub-continent with Asia involves complex mechanisms of deformation: the creation and propagation of faults which accommodate the extrusion of continental blocks, the thickening of the crust of the Earth. Our goal is to develop a simplified numerical model that should account for the main phenomena that interact in such collisions [1]. In this model, the crust is cons...

There is a recent surge of evidence supporting disruptive coloration, in which patterns break up the animal's outline through false edges or boundaries, increasing survival in animals by reducing predator detection and/or preventing recognition. Although research has demonstrated that false edges are successful for reducing predation of prey, research into the role of internal false boundaries ...

Bird and arthropod predation is often associated with natural pest control in agricultural landscapes, but the rates of predation may vary with the amount of tree cover or other environmental factors. We examined bird and arthropod predation in three tree-rich and three tree-poor landscapes across southwestern Ethiopia. Within each landscape we selected three tree-rich and three tree-poor homeg...

BACKGROUND Medical practice trends and limitations in trainees' duty hours have diminished the interest and exposure of nephrology fellows to percutaneous kidney biopsy (PKB). We hypothesized that an integrated nephrology-pathology-led simulation may be an effective educational tool. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 4-hour PKB simulation workshop (KBSW), led by two ultrasonography (US)-trained nephrol...

In 1997 the most prestigious high school science fair in the United States—the Westinghouse Science Competition [Berger 94] —was won by Adam Cohen, then a senior at Hunter High School in New York City. Cohen's project, "Near-Field Photolithography", involved the construction of a home-built scanning tunneling microscope (or STM—a high-resolution microscope that uses the extent of quantum tunnel...

Implicit surfaces, also known as blobby molecules [2], metaballs [14] or soft objects [22], are particularly suitable for modelling smoothly blended, “plasticine” objects. One of their most attractive features is their deformability. The shape of an object can be altered by simply moving the skeletal elements. A closed, smoothly blended surface is always guaranteed although the topology of an o...

In Kampung Sanan Malang, designated as a tourist destination for small householdbased industries, tempeh chips are its flagship product. The 636 artisans from Malang Tempeh and Chips Production Center Association. Members of this community have processed into 50 types preparations like various flavors chips, satay, mendol sticks, brownies cakes, dry tempeh, soybean stew to produce nata de soya,...