This paper is focused on the analysis of stress-strain and displacement for compressive load on the fibrereinforced composite laminates. Three different orientations of fibers are analyzed with and without the circular cut-outs. Also different dimensions of circular cut-outs are applied on the laminates at different compressive loading conditions. This analysis is carried out using the finite e...

Does biting food lead to aggressive behavior? An experimental study is reported where children ages 6-10 (n = 12) were served chicken either on-the-bone or pre-cut in bite-size pieces. When children ate on-the-bone chicken, they exhibited more aggressive behavior than pre-cut, boneless chicken. For example, children were more likely to violate the counselor's instructions by leaving the eating ...

The aim of this work theoretical study is to theoretically investigate a inorganic membrane assisted purifcation process of an H2-rich stream derived from a conventional methanol steam reforming stage. In particular, a black-box model for multicomponent gas mixture purifcation is dev...

In this paper, we investigate translations from a classical cut-free sequent calculus LK into an intuitionistic cut-free sequent calculus LJ. Translations known from the literature rest on permutations of inferences in classical proofs. We show that, for some classes of rst-order formulae, all minimal LJ-proofs are non-elementary but there exist short LK-proofs of the same formula. Similar resu...

Exosomes, small (40-100 nm) extracellular membranous vesicles, attract enormous research interest because they are carriers of disease markers and a prospective delivery system for therapeutic agents. Differential centrifugation, the prevalent method of exosome isolation, frequently produces dissimilar and improper results because of the faulty practice of using a common centrifugation protocol...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the prognostic factors related to the recurrence rate of vulvar cancer. METHODS Retrospective study of 87 patients diagnosed of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma diagnosed at a tertiary hospital in Madrid between January 2000 and December 2010. RESULTS The pathological mean tumor size was 35.1±22.8 mm, with stromal invasion of 7.7±6.6 mm. The mean free margin after surgery...

A new counterflow virtual impactor (CVI) inlet is introduced with details of its design, laboratory characterisation tests and deployment on an aircraft during the 2011 Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment (EPEACE). The CVI inlet addresses three key issues in previous designs; in particular, the inlet operates with: (i) negligible organic contamination; (ii) a significant sample flo...

A model for holographic dark energy is proposed, following the idea that the short distance cut-off is related to the infrared cut-off. We assume that the infrared cut-off relevant to the dark energy is the size of the event horizon. With the input ΩΛ = 0.73, we predict the equation of state of the dark energy at the present time be characterized by w = −0.90. The cosmic coincidence problem can...

Efficient cutting design is essential to reduce the costs of production in the open die forging industry. This article discusses a slab cutting design problem that occurs when parallel piped items are cut from raw material steel slabs with varying widths and lengths to meet a volume requirement. The problem is modeled as a two-dimensional cutting stock problem or bin packing problem with size-c...