An elastomeric seal may leak by elastic deformation without any material damage. We describe elastic leak using a theoretical model, and watch a seal deform and leak using a transparent experimental setup. The elastomer seals the fluid by forming contact with surroundinghardmaterials. As the fluid pressure increases, the contact stress also increases but not as much. When the fluid pressure sur...

A new approach which differs from the conventional pattern recognition techniques in partitioning a seal imprint image into a triangular tessellation is proposed. The image plane is segmented into a mesh of triangles according to the Delaunay triangulation paradigm, and the distribution of the triangular area is used as the primary feature for matching unrecognized seal imprints with model imag...

В статье приведены результаты метабаркодирования ДНК микробиома респираторного, урогенитального и желудочно-кишечного трактов каспийского тюленя. Показан профиль тюленя отмечено отсутствие возбудителей бактериальных зоонозов в их бета-сообществе микробиотов. The article presents the results of metabarcoding microbiome DNA respiratory, urogenital and gastrointestinal tracts Caspian seal. profile...

A barrier (seal) must form at the cut ends of a severed axon if a neuron is to survive and eventually regenerate. Following severance of crayfish medial giant axons in physiological saline, vesicles accumulate at the cut end and form a barrier (seal) to ion and dye diffusion. In contrast, squid giant axons do not seal, even though injury-induced vesicles form after axonal transection and accumu...