Denda and Marante [1] have developed the boundary element method for the mixed mode fracture analysis of multiple curvilinear cracks in the general anisotropic solids in two dimensions for which in-plane Mode I, II, and out-of-plane Mode III, of fracture are coupled. They have developed the crack tip singular element (CTSE) to model any curvilinear cracks, including center and edge cracks. The ...

The focus of our study is lithology/fluid inversion with spatial coupling from prestack seismic amplitude variation with offset AVO data and well observations. The inversion is defined in a Bayesian setting where the complete solution is the posterior model. The prior model for the lithology/fluid LF characteristics is defined as a profile Markov randomfield model with lateral continuity. Each ...

INTRODUCTION Regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) for continuous renal replacement therapy is widely used in intensive care units (ICUs). However, concern exists about the safety of citrate in patients with liver failure (LF). The aim of this study was to evaluate safety and efficacy of RCA in ICU patients with varying degrees of impaired liver function. METHODS In a multicenter, prospectiv...

The pump-probe signal from the light-harvesting antenna LH2 of purple bacteria is analyzed using a Green function expression derived by solving the nonlinear exciton-oscillator equations of motion (NEE). A microscopic definition of the exciton mean free path (Lf) and localization size (LF) is given in terms of the off-diagonal elements of the exciton Green function and density matrix, respectiv...

Many bacterial toxins act on conserved components of essential host-signaling pathways. One consequence of this conservation is that genetic model organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster can be used for analyzing the mechanism of toxin action. In this study, we characterize the activities of two anthrax virulence factors, lethal factor (LF) and edema factor, in transgenic Drosophila. LF is a ...

We constructed the composite luminosity function (LF) of clusters of galaxies in the five SDSS photometric bands u,g,r,i and z from the RASS-SDSS galaxy cluster catalog. Background and foreground galaxies are subtracted using both a local and a global background correction to take in account the presence of large scale structures and variations from field to field, respectively. The composite L...

To approximate the multivariate functions with spatial inhomogeneity, in this paper we proposed an ortho-ridgelet neural network (ORNN) model. By taking orthonormal ridgelet, which is a “true” ridgelet function different with the “classic” ridgelet, as the activation function of the hidden neurons, the network is characterized of more efficient representation of a set of functions with linear a...

The multi-compartment electric vehicle routing problem (EVRP) with soft time window and multiple charging types (MCEVRP-STW&MCT) is studied, in which vehicles that are environmentally friendly but need to be recharged course of transport process, employed. A mathematical model for this optimization established the objective minimizing function composed cost, distribution penalty cost service co...

ÐCurved oriented patterns are dominated by high frequencies and exhibit zero gradients on ridges and valleys. Existing curvature estimators fail here. The characterization of curved oriented patterns based on translation invariance lacks an estimation of local curvature and yields a biased curvaturedependent confidence measure. Using parameterized curvilinear models we measure the amount of loc...