The study investigates the causal link between trade openness and economic growth for four South Asian countries for period 1972-1985 and 1986-2007 to examine the scenario before and after the implementation of SAARC. Panel cointegration and FMOLS techniques are employed for short run and long run estimates. In 1972-85 short run unidirectional causality from GDP to openness is found whereas, in...

Based on a variety of case histories of site investigations, including extensive bore hole data, laboratory testing and geophysical prospecting at more than 550 construction sites, an empirical formulation is proposed for the rapid determination of allowable bearing pressure of shallow foundations in soils and rocks. The proposed expression corroborates consistently with the results of the clas...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 I . INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 I1 . MODERN THEORIES OF METABOLIC CONTROL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 111 . ESSENTIALS OF METABOLIC CONTROL ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . 26 A . Scope of Metabolic Control Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 B . Elasticity C...

In this paper, we prove that the linearized elasticity system has no eigenvalues in two geometric situations: the whole space R and a local perturbation of the half-space. We consider the Lamé coefficients and the density varying in an unbounded part of the domain. For the whole space, we use the operations curl and div to reduce our system to a scalar problem and use a limiting absorption prin...

The topological derivative of cost functionals J that depend on the stress (through the displacement gradient, assuming a linearly elastic material behavior) is considered in a quite general 3D setting where both the background and the inhomogeneity may have arbitrary anisotropic elastic properties. The topological derivative DJ(z) of J quantifies the asymptotic behavior of J under the nucleati...

We study the asymptotic behavior of a system modeling a composite material made of an elastic periodically perforated support, with period ε > 0, and a perfect gas placed in each of these perforations, as ε goes to zero. The model we use is linear corresponding to deformations around a reference configuration. We apply both two-scale asymptotic expansion and two-scale convergence methods in ord...

In our previous work, we developed a compact 6-DOF haptic interface as a master device which achieved an effective manual teleoperation. The haptic interface contains a modified Delta parallel-link positioning mechanism. Parallel mechanisms are usually characterized by a high stiffness, which, however, is reduced by elastic deformations of both parts and bearings. Therefore, to design such a pa...

In this paper we present two atomistic models for the energy of a one-dimensional elastic crystal. We assume that the macroscopic displacement equals the microscopic one. The energy of the first model is given by a two-body interaction potential, and we assume that the atoms follow a continuous and piecewise smooth macroscopic (continuum) deformation. We calculate the first terms of the Taylor ...

AIM Feasibility and reliability of tissue Doppler imaging-(TDI-) based elastography for cervical quantitative stiffness assessment during all three trimesters of pregnancy were evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prospective case-control study including seventy-four patients collected between the 12th and 42nd weeks of gestation. The tissue strain (TS) was measured by two independent operators a...

2014 The observation of striped patterns in a thin droplet of a smectic C phase (Sm C) deposited on a substrate with unidirectional anchoring has led us to the study of the geometry of lines of half-integral strength. A theoretical analysis of these observations, based on a covariant formalism of the elasticity of Sm C phases, and using an analogy with magnetic systems because of the presence o...