Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York 14853 (K.W., A.C., D.S.); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7141, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005 Paris, France (K.W.); and Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Center for Biotechnology, Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska, ...

Loss aversion is considered a general pervasive bias occurring regardless of context or person making the decision. We hypothesized that conscientiousness would predict an aversion to losses in the financial domain. We index loss aversion by the relative impact of income losses and gains on life satisfaction. In a representative German sample (N = 105,558: replicated in a British sample, N = 33...

Abstract Most concepts to characterize crack propagation were developed for elastic materials. When applying these methods elastomers, the question is how inherent energy dissipation of material affects cracking behavior. This contribution presents a numerical analysis growth in natural rubber taking due visco-elastic behavior into account. For this purpose, experimental tests first carried out...

Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Bakytzhan Kallemov, 2 Blaise Delmotte, Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla, Boyce E. Griffith, 4 and Aleksandar Donev ∗ 1Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 10012 2Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720 3Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 4Departm...

B.J.F. Bruet Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 H.J. Qi and M.C. Boyce Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 R. Panas, K. Tai, L. Frick, and C. Ortiz Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambr...

Normal forms play a central role in the design of relational databases. Several normal forms for temporal relational databases have been proposed. These definitions are particular to specific temporal data models, which are numerous and incompatible. This paper attempts to rectify this situation. We define a consistent framework of temporal equivalents of the important conventional database des...

83 T he less than adequate characteristics of traditional lecture-based educational methods are well established. Research indicates that lecture alone leads to student passivity, does little to promote retention of learned material, discourages interaction between students and instructors, and makes it difficult for instructors to obtain timely feedback about student understanding. Research on...

In order to better understand the strengthening mechanism observed in nacre, we have developed an interface computational model to simulate the behavior of the organic present at the interface between aragonite tablets. In the model, the single polymer-chain behavior is characterized by the worm-like-chain (WLC) model, which is in turn incorporated into the eight-chain cell model developed by A...

At the beginning of the course, we explore some basic database concepts and adopt terminology. We give an overview of the most important data models. First we give brief remarks on historical network and hierarchical data models, and then we continue to investigate entity-relationship and relational data model. Only most important facts about entityrelationship model, together with some example...