This paper presents a three-dimensional, extrinsically enriched meshfree method for initiation, branching, growth and coalescence of an arbitrary number of cracks in non-linear solids including large deformations, for statics and dynamics. The novelty of the methodology is that only an extrinsic discontinuous enrichment and no near-tip enrichment is required. Instead, a Lagrange multiplier fiel...

In Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problems dealing with qualitative criteria and uncertain information the use of linguistic values is suitable for the experts in order to express their judgments. It is common that the group of experts involved in such problems have different degrees of knowledge about the criteria, so we propose a multi-granular linguistic framework such that each exper...

The aim of the paper is to compare the general risk of the four most important energy chains (coal, nuclear, gas, hydro). Two different multicriteria decision models, the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the PROMETHEE method have been applied. The chosen risk criteria are: severe accidents, terrorism, environmental and health risks, risk of price changes. The first part of the paper discusses the...

A comparison of various methods of enhancing frequency of Salmonella isolations revealed that inoculation of a second enrichment broth, with culture from the first, was no improvement over the single direct enrichment method. It was inferior to centrifugation. Selenite was observed to produce more positive isolations at 48 hr than at 24. No change occurred in tetrathionate. Reconstitution of dr...

Isolation and identification of etiological agents found in body fluids can be of critical importance for the recovery of patients suffering from potentially-severe infections, which are often followed by serious sequels. Eighty-two samples of different body fluids were analyzed using two different methods: (1) the conventional culture method (agar plating) and (2) the enrichment culture techni...

To: Claude Poliart (Project Officer) EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG Infso E3, Cultural heritage and technology enhanced learning EUFO 1154 Rue Alcide de Gasperi L-2920 Luxembourg From: Project name: Enabling Access to Sound Archives through Integration, Enrichment and Retrieval Project acronym: EASAIER Project number: 033902 Person: Joshua Reiss Organisation Queen Mary University of London Date 15 Augu...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of auditory enrichment (by means of classical music) or physical enrichment (by means of hanging colored string bunches and barley grains on the floor) on tonic immobility duration, heterophil to lymphocyte ratio, and fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in chicks of several layer breeds. In experiment 1, 192 chicks from 8 Spanish breeds and 1 White Leg...

Previs, Stephen F., Richard Fatica, Visvanathan Chandramouli, James C. Alexander, Henri Brunengraber, and Bernard R. Landau. Quantifying rates of protein synthesis in humans by use of H2O: application to patients with end-stage renal disease. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 286: E665–E672, 2004. First published December 23, 2003; 10.1152/ajpendo.00271.2003.—A method is introduced for quantitating...