First-principles studies on the intrinsic mechanical properties of various materials and systems through ab initio tensile and shear testing simulations based on density-functional theory are reviewed. For various materials, ideal tensile and shear strength and features of the deformation of bulk crystals without any defects have been examined, and the relation with the bonding nature has been ...

The article aims to define the role of functional zoning in effective management protected areas and analyze main methods assessing area (PA) effectiveness. research was performed using general scientific methods. Methods factors that should be taken into account when developing are highlighted. significant potential for use improve PA’s is pointed out, particular, through methodological improv...

Background: Functional disability, impaired balance, and trunk muscle endurance are among the major changes in patients with Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain (NCLBP). Investigating the relationship between these factors and Functional Movement Screen (FMS) can facilitate effective pain management and functional problems in these patients. This study aimed to assess the relationships between F...

The products of Networked Software must meet customers' business needs in addition to features other than the functional requirements, non-functional characteristics. In order to ensure the system performance, reliability, maintainability and scalability, it is necessary that non-functional conflict digestion method to be optimized so that the higher the efficiency of the implementation of Netw...

The chemical reaction lies at the very heart of chemistry. In spite of its paramount importance, an understanding of chemical reactions still falls short of the chemists’ expectation. Microscopically, chemical reactions are constituted by atomic movements on a typical time scale of several hundreds of picosecond (10 s). It has been a formidable task for chemists to track down a reaction process...

Most software testing methods, even though they may detect some faults, can never finally assert whether the tested system is correct. This is due partly to the incompleteness of methods that merely aim to "exercise" the code; partly to the lack of a formal relationship between testing and a functional specification; and partly to the difficulty, especially in objectoriented systems, of testing...

High-speed videoendoscopy (HSV) captures the true intracycle vibratory behavior of the vocal folds, which allows for overcoming the limitations of videostroboscopy for more accurate objective quantification methods. However, the commercial HSV systems have not gained widespread clinical adoption because of remaining technical and methodological limitations and an associated lack of information ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether advanced practice providers could learn to collect objective functional assessment data accurately and efficiently with commercially available devices that measure kinematics and kinetics (Nintendo Wii Balance Board [WBB] and Level Belt [LB]) to aid in the assessment of fall risk and outcomes after fragility fractures. METHODS Nin...