Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) have a severe difficulty recognizing the faces of known individuals in the absence of any history of neurological damage. These recognition problems may be linked to selective deficits in the holistic/configural processing of faces. We used two-tone Mooney images to study the processing of faces versus non-face objects in DP when it is based on ...

Mooney viscosity is one of the important quality properties of polybutadiene rubber (PBR). It is important to implement appropriate measures to maintain and guarantee a uniform product quality required by the rubber processing industries. One major step towards quality assurance is the on line quality prediction of the product from the process parameters. This can be accomplished by developing ...

Neurological experiments have revealed a complex network of areas in the human brain that respond more to faces than to other categories of objects and thus have been implemented in face categorization. The aim of this study was to investigate whether chimpanzees (n = 5), our closest living relatives, detect and categorize faces on the basis of first-order information, and whether this sensitiv...

The thermal instability of a rotating Rivlin-Ericksen viscoelastic fluid in the presence of uniform vertical magnetic field is considered. For the case of stationary convection, Rivlin-Ericksen viscoelastic fluid behaves like a Newtonian fluid. It is found that rotation has a stabilizing effect, whereas the magnetic field has both stabilizing and destabilizing effects. Graphs have been plotted ...

Liquid polymers are used in elastomeric compounds to modify their processing and final characteristics. The material is considered as a polymeric plasticizer substitute or supplement conventional like paraffinic aromatic oils, hydrocarbon resins. Their plasticizing effect contribution the crosslinking sulfur cured SSBR mixtures studied. Aromatic oil, aliphatic resin different liquid polymers, v...

In this article, hyperelastic material models that state consistent polynomial expansions of the stored energy function are discussed. The approach follows from multiplicative decomposition deformation gradient. Some advantages third-order expansion model over five-parameter Rivlin using Treloar’s experimental data shown. qualitatively and quantitatively compared to highlight these discussed mo...

With the worldwide prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, much attention has been focused on simulating the characteristics of the human heart to better understand and treat cardiac disorders. The purpose of this study is to build a finite element model of the left atrium (LA) that incorporates detailed anatomical features and realistic material characteristics to investigate the interaction of...

BACKGROUND Ventricle material properties are difficult to obtain under in vivo conditions and are not readily available in the current literature. It is also desirable to have an initial determination if a patient had an infarction based on echo data before more expensive examinations are recommended. A noninvasive echo-based modeling approach and a predictive method were introduced to determin...