Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development?

Modelling Non-Hierarchical Structures

This section is divided into four parts. In this first part we look at situations in health research that can give rise to a two way cross-classification and suggest some notation to describe this model. In the second part we look at more complicated cross-classified structures and extend the notation. In the third part we describe general rules for the notation construction. In the final part ...

Archaeological Evidence of Epidemics Can Inform Future Epidemics

The recent Ebola epidemic provides a dramatic example of the devastation and fear generated by epidemics, particularly those caused by new emerging or reemerging diseases. A focus on the control and prevention of diseases in living populations dominates most epidemic disease research. However, research on epidemics in the past provides a temporal depth to our understanding of the context and co...

How can evolutionary medicine inform future personalized medicine?

non-linear study of various slit shear walls in steel structures

seismic retrofit strategies have been developed in the past few decades following the introduction of new seismic provisions and the availability of advanced materials and methods. it can be observed that new approaches to deal with more lateral forces are more innovative and more energy absorbent. in line with this, there is a growing trend toward the use of steel shear walls as a system with ...

Hierarchical grouping of non-connected structures

We review multilevel hierarchies under the special aspect of their potential for abstraction and grouping. Motivated by claims to ’bridge the representational gap between image and model features’ and by the growing importance of topological properties we discuss several extensions to dual graph pyramids: structural simplification should preserve important topological properties and content abs...