Abstract With the increased use of cable bolts in mining and civil projects worldwide, it is important to understanding performance these support structures different scenarios. The axial load transfer mechanisms six were investigated experimentally this research study. A large-scale pull-out testing apparatus with a capacity 1000 kN was designed manufactured as part investigation. common comme...

F. A. Pinheiro, V. A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, N. I. Zheludev 1 Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, 21941-972, Brazil 2 Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, United Kingdom and 3 Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and The Photonics Instit...

J. B. González-Díaz, J. M. García-Martín, A. García-Martín, D. Navas, A. Asenjo, M. Vázquez, M. Hernández-Vélez, and G. Armelles Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid (IMM-CNM-CSIC), Isaac Newton 8, Tres Cantos, 28760 Madrid, Spain Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain Department of Materials Science and Enginee...

We demonstrate a type of meta-atom for creating metamaterials with giant nonlinear optical activity but vanishing linear optical activity in a wide frequency range. Such properties are not found in any natural materials, and we call this regime as pure nonlinear optical activity. We further extend our design concept and show that the metamaterial can be tuned dynamically to exhibit either posit...

Flagellation of a nonswimming variant of the mixed flagellated bacterium Azospirillum lipoferum 4B was characterized by electron microscopy, and polyclonal antibodies were raised against polar and lateral flagellins. The variant cells lacked a polar flagellum due to a defect in flagellin synthesis and constitutively expressed lateral flagella. The variant cells were able to respond to condition...

All indecomposable finite-dimensional representations of the homogeneous Galilei group which when restricted to the rotation subgroup are decomposed to spin 0, 1/2 and 1 representations are constructed and classified. These representations are also obtained via contractions of the corresponding representations of the Lorentz group. Finally the obtained representations are used to derive a gener...

• Rotational invariance, SO(3). Here we can rotate through an arbitrary angle specified by a continuous parameter θ, restricted to some finite range, say [0, 2π). There are a infinite continuum of possible values of θ, even though its range is limited. There are also two continuous parameters necessary to specify the direction about which this rotation is to take place. This is a three-paramete...

The convex–concave rule is considered an important theory during treatment decision-making (Kirby et al., 2007). According to this rule (Fig. 1) the therapist moves a bone with a convex joint surface opposite to the direction of restricted movement of the distal aspect of the bone (e.g. the head of humerus inferiorly for restricted shoulder abduction). However, a concave joint surface is mobili...

Context. The evolution of lithium abundance in cool dwarfs provides a unique probe of nonstandard processes in stellar evolution. Aims. We investigate the lithium content of young low-mass stars in the 5 Myr old, star forming region NGC 2264 and its relationship with rotation. Methods. We combine lithium equivalent width measurements (EW(Li)) from the Gaia-ESO Survey with the determination of r...