Cosmic filaments play a role of bridges along which matter and gas accrete onto galaxies to trigger star formation and feed central black holes. Here we explore the correlations between the intrinsic properties of void galaxies and the linearity RL of void filaments (degree of filament’s straightness). We focus on void regions since the bridge effect of filaments should be most conspicuous in t...

Using aMarx-oscillator standing-wave resonancemethod, we measuredthe internal friction &' of sintered titanium containing up to 26 volume-percent voids (c). The surprising &I-versus-c curve shape, an exponential increase, lead us to remeasure &I-versus-c by acoustic-resonance spectroscopy, which gave similar results. We hypothesized that both void shape and void size change with c. For the void...

BACKGROUND Current UK guidelines for the identification, management and referral of chronic kidney disease advise an early-morning urine sample for the albumin:creatinine ratio or the protein:creatinine ratio (PCR) in order to quantify proteinuria. Estimated protein output (EPO) is an alternative and possibly better method of quantifying proteinuria which takes lean weight into consideration. ...

Stress magnification in thin ligaments between small and large cylindrical voids is obtained by matching the inner field approximation by beam theory to the outer rigid-body field in the bulk of the material. A void between two larger voids is modeled as a large hole within a strip of straight edges (boundaries of the holes with infinite radii of curvature). Both stretching and bending types of...

This paper proposes a new expression of discrete-mechanical quantities in a granular assembly and a new formulation of the graph-theoretical approach in the mechanics of granular materials. New mechanical quantities for void, i.e., void force, void displacement, etc., are introduced and relations between discrete-mechanical quantities of particle, contact and void are given in a very simple for...

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Voids are extremely important to water science, because their size and connectivity determines the storage and flow of water both above and below the ground surface. While previous formal theories about voids strictly consider holes hosted inside objects, we generalize voids to also include spaces between objects, and distinguish voids in macroscopic objects from those occurring microscopically...

We introduce a simple model for the formation of voids. In this model the underdensity of galaxies in voids is the product of two factors. The first arises from a gravitational expansion of the negative density perturbation. The second is due to biasing: galaxies are less likely to form in an underdense region. One feature of the model is an upper cutoff in void sizes. We calculate the volume f...