The toxic metal, lead, is associated with aggressive behavior, delinquency, and attention disorders in boys between the ages of 7 and 11, according to a study by Herbert Needleman published in 1996 in the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (JAMA).[1] Aggressive behavior, delinquency and attention disorders in youth are, themselves, predictors of criminal behavior later in life.[2] This...

Pairwise sequence alignment is the method to find the best matching piece for two sequences. It can be either local which return the most similar subsequence or global which return the alignment of whole sequence. Nowadays, the number of genetic sequences increases exponentially so that it becomes a challenge to analyze and understand those data. The cutting-edge parallel architectures provide ...

In the paper the effects of nucleation and growth of voids in the plastic porous media are investigated. Three different forms of the model are considered: the augmented Gurson model (total porosity model) with variable nucleation and growth material function, the same model with constant growth material function and the separated porosity model. The identification of the material functions par...

Alignment of seismic traces is a recurring need in seismic processing and interpretation. For global alignment via static shift there are robust tools available, including cross correlation. However, another kind of alignment problem arises in applications as diverse as associating synthetic seismograms to field data, harmonizing P-wave and mode converted data, final multilevel flattening of co...

BIFURCATIONS, including shear band and diffuse geometric modes, arc analysed for plane strain deformation of a rectangular slab subject to a constant lateral confining stress. The response of the slab material is characterized by an incrementally linear constitutive relation that allows for the possibility of volume change accompanying shear deformation, pressure dependence and deviations from ...