We have established the cohesive law for interfaces between a carbon nanotube (CNT) and polymer that are not well bonded and are characterized by the van der Waals force. The tensile cohesive strength and cohesive energy are given in terms of the area density of carbon nanotube and volume density of polymer, as well as the parameters in the van der Waals force. For a CNT in an infinite polymer,...

Ito, M. and G. Thierrin, Congruences, infix and cohesive prefix codes, Theoretical Computer Science 136 (1994) 471 485. A language L _~ X * is called a cohesive prefix code if xLyc~L ~ 0 implies that y = 1 and xL c L for any x, y~X*. An example of cohesive prefix codes is an infix code. We determine first the structure of cohesive prefix codes and then we study several relationships between max...

Summarization is a complex task that requires understanding of the document con­ tent to determine the importance of the text. Lexical cohesion is a method to identify connected portions of the text based on the relations between the words in the text. Lexical cohesive relations can be represented using lexical chains. Lexical chains are sequences of semantically related words spread over the e...

Cohesive laws describe the resistance to incipient separation of material surfaces. A cohesive finite element is formulated on the basis of a particular cohesive law. Cohesive elements are placed at the boundary between adjacent standard volume finite elements to model fatigue damage that leads to fracture at the separation of the element boundaries per the cohesive law. In this work, a cohesiv...

Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension in EFL students with different proficiency levels. One hundred students formed the participant of this study. They were undergraduate students majoring in English at University of Isfahan. To collect the relevant data, participants were divide...

With origins in the postwar development discourse, the core-periphery concept has spread all over the social, and increasingly the natural, sciences. Used initially to denote two broad regional categories distinguished by differences in socio-economic parameters, its structural connotations paved way for more relational, and less attributional, specifications. As reflected in the blockmodeling ...