Using the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium genome-wide association dataset, we applied ridged, multiple least-squares regression to identify genetic variants with apparent unique contributions to variation of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP), a newly identified clinical risk factor for development of rheumatoid arthritis. Within a 2.7-Mbp region on chromosome 6 around ...

Abstract Melted zones, microcracks, shear bands, and elastic incompatibility of explosively welded materials are features that may initialize cracks at the interface reduce fatigue strength. This study aims to determine effect interfacial defect-like structures on strength corrosion-resistant plates. Cyclic axial loading was applied seven distinct layer-by-layer compositions Ti Gr 1, Zr 700 all...

Improved surgical procedures and implant developments for ligament or tendon repair require an in-depth understanding of tissue load-deformation fatigue properties. Cyclic testing will provide crucial information on the behavior these materials under reoccurring loads strength. Sparse data are available describing soft cyclic loading. To examine strength, a new technology was trialed deploying ...

introduction: endothelial cells are subjected to mechanical forces caused by pulsatile flow and pressure leading to hemodynamic shear stress and circumferential stress on endothelial layer. the study aimed at a quantitative evaluation of endothelial cell morphology by application of cyclic loading. endothelial cells respond to applied loads with adaptation and remodeling. such mechanisms are ma...

ibn-khaldun,s social change theory has been often classified as cyclic theoty of social changes that has three stages includes in generation, growth and progress and ultimately regressive and decadence. but, what is inferred by rethink in text of ibn-khaldun,s moghaddame, are two different courses,as interrelated to each other, “civilizational evolution” and “cyclic changes of state.avoiding ma...

These are notes on a preliminary follow-up to a question of Jim Propp, about cyclic sieving of cyclic codes. We show that two of the Mahonian polynomials are cyclic sieving polynomials for certain Dual Hamming Codes: X and X inv for q = 2, 3 and q = 2, respectively.

in this paper firt of all we introduce a generalization of torsion freeness of acts over monoids, called -torsion freeness. then in section 1 of results we give some general properties and in sections 2, 3 and 4 we give a characterization of monoids for which this property of their right rees factor, cyclic and acts in general  implies some other properties, respectively.

for a symmetric group $g:=sym(n)$ and a conjugacy class $mathcal{x}$ of involutions in $g$, it is known that if the class of involutions does not have a unique fixed point, then - with a few small exceptions - given two elements $a,x in mathcal{x}$, either $angbrac{a,x}$ is isomorphic to the dihedral group $d_{8}$, or there is a further element $y in mathcal{x}$ such that $angbrac{a,y} cong ang...

fuzzy groups and fuzzy theory have a lot of applications in several sciences such as mathematics, computer science, computer and electrical engineering. hence, counting the number of fuzzy subgroups of finite groups to classify them is an important issue in fuzzy theory. the main goal of this paper is to give an explicit formula for the number of fuzzy subgroups of a finite cyclic group g z p1 ...