This paper focuses on modelling and visualisation of mineral shells of foraminifera (unicellular aquatic, mainly marine, organisms). Our recent model follows the moving reference approach of theoretical modelling of foraminiferal shells. This model introduces three important aspects of simulations, i.e. non-circular chamber shapes (in 2D), allometry of chambers and three dimensional simulation ...

We consider averaged shelling and coordination numbers of aperiodic tilings. Shelling numbers count the vertices on radial shells around a vertex. Coordination numbers, in turn, count the vertices on coordination shells of a vertex, defined via the graph distance given by the tiling. For the Ammann-Beenker tiling, we find that coordination shells consist of complete shelling orbits, which enabl...

In this paper a study on the vibration of thin cylindrical shells with ring supports and made of functionally graded materials (FGMs) composed of stainless steel and nickel is presented. The properties are graded in the thickness direction according to a volume fraction power-law distribution.The cylindrical shells with ring supports which are arbitrarily placed along the shell and impose zero ...

Third order shear deformation theory of cylindrical shells is employed to investigate the vibration characteristics of non-homogeneous cylindrical shells surrounded by an elastic medium. The kinematic relations are obtained using the strain-displacement relations of Donnell shell theory. The shell properties are considered to be dependent on both position and thermal environment. A suitable fun...

Introduction 3D magnetization-prepared fast gradient echo MR sequences, such as MP-RAGE [1], have been widely used for 3D brain volumetric imaging due to high spatial resolution and good contrast between white matter and gray matter. However, these techniques usually require long acquisition time, which increases the probability of motion and decreases clinical throughput. There have been sever...

A novel adsorbent based on peanut shells modified with glutaraldehyde and succinic anhydride was prepared. Factors affecting the adsorption capacity, such as the pH, temperature, adsorption time, initial cytochrome c (cyt c) concentration and NaCl ionic strength, were extensively investigated. The results showed that the maximum adsorption capacity of the modified peanut shells (MPSs) was 432.6...

We present a Chandra observation of Abell 2052, a cooling flow cluster with a central cD that hosts the complex radio source 3C 317. The data reveal “holes” in the X-ray emission that are coincident with the radio lobes. The holes are surrounded by bright “shells” of X-ray emission. The data are consistent with the radio source displacing and compressing, and at the same time being confined by,...

The valves of oysters act as a physical barrier between tissues and the external environment, thereby protecting the oyster from environmental stress and predation. To better understand differences in shell properties and predation susceptibilities of two physiologically and morphologically similar oysters, Crassostrea virginica and Crassostrea ariakensis, we quantified and compared two mechani...

In the neutron-rich internal shocks model for Gamma-ray Burts (GRBs), the Lorentz factors (LFs) of ions shells are variable, so are the LFs of accompanying neutron shells. For slow neutron shells with a typical LF ∼ tens, the typical β−decay radius reads Rβ,s ∼ several× 10cm, which is much larger than the typical internal shocks radius ∼ 10cm, so their impact on the internal shocks may be unimp...

Mussel shells are potential bioarchives of proxies for changes in the physicochemical conditions in the bivalve’s habitat. One such proxy is the distribution of rare earths and yttrium (REY) in seawater, as REY speciation in seawater is sensitive to pH and temperature variations, due to the impact of these parameters on the activity of CO 3 in seawater. We present a new protocol for sample prep...