Irregularities are inherent to virtually all fibers, including the conventional textile fibers, the high-performance brittle fibers and newly developed nano-fibers. These irregularities can fall into two main categories: dimensional or geometrical irregularity (external) and structural irregularity (internal). For natural fibers such as wool, diameter variation along fiber length is atypical ex...

A theoretical calculation is made to simulate the effect of drafting upon the sliver irregularity in two-zone drafting of three-over-three roller system. Two types of slivers, i.e., random sliver and optional sliver are considered. The effects of sliver count, staple fiber length, fineness of fiber, draft distribution between two drafting zones, maximal moving distance and distribution type of ...

A numerical study on the dynamic responses of irregular fibers under axial tension is presented in this article. The irregularity was represented by a sinusoidal shape profile along the fiber axis. The finite element method was used in the simulations and the maximum first principal stress due to the dynamic pulling has been examined. Our numerical results indicate that the first principal stre...

The unintentional birefringence induced by the irregular structure in photonic crystal fibers is analyzed numerically using the plane wave expansion method. The statistical correlations between the birefringence and the various irregularities are obtained. The birefringence is found to be largely dependent on the fiber design parameters as well as the degree of the irregularity. And the large p...

Despite abundant research on the distribution of glottal stops and glottalization in English and other languages, it is still unclear which factors matter most in predicting where glottal stops occur. In this study, logistic mixed-effects regression modeling is used to predict the occurrence of word-initial full glottal stops vs. no voicing irregularity. The results indicate that prominence and...

We demonstrate for the first time to our knowledge, experimentally and theoretically, that the pulse-to-pulse amplitude fluctuations that occur in pulse trains generated by actively mode-locked Er-doped fiber lasers in a repetition-rate-doubling rational-harmonic mode-locking regime are completely eliminated when the modulation frequency is properly tuned. Irregularity of the pulse position in ...

Animal fibers have variety in their longitudinal sections. The main difference of the longitudinal section of these fibers is the geometry and dimension of scale patterns, which with attention to one of the physical fiber detection, one can inspect longitudinal section of fiber images, which determine the fiber characteristics. The method of the determination is image processing which extractin...

Inadequate dietary fiber intake contributes to the prevalent irregularity and constipation in Western countries. Although eating adequate amounts of fibers from fiber-rich foods, foods with added fibers and dietary fiber supplements is considered the first option for improving laxation, the efficacy can vary among types of fibers. The present study is a randomized control trial that included he...

A normal projective variety X is called Fano if a multiple of the anticanonical Weil divisor, −KX , is an ample Cartier divisor. The importance of Fano varieties is twofold, from one side they give, has predicted by Fano [Fa], examples of non rational varieties having plurigenera and irregularity all zero (cfr [Is]); on the other hand they should be the building block of uniruled variety, indee...