It is a common point that “soft” condensed matter (like granular materials or foams) can reduce damage caused by impact or explosion. It is attributed to their ability to absorb significant energy. This is certainly the case for quasistatic type of deformation at low velocity of impact widely used for packing of fragile devices. At the same time a mitigation of blast phenomena must take into ac...

Relaxation dynamics are the central topic in glassy physics. Recently, there is an emerging view that mechanical strain plays a similar role as temperature in altering the relaxation dynamics. Here, we report that mechanical strain in a model metallic glass modulates the relaxation dynamics in unexpected ways. We find that a large strain amplitude makes a fragile liquid become stronger, reduces...

From the earliest written records on human occupation, mining has been characterized as a dangerous trade with a high probability of injury, illness, or worse. This characterization developed over thousands of years during which life was fragile for those who removed and processed ore. Regrettably, mining accidents were often viewed as one of the tragic costs of extracting the materials necessa...

The study of manipulation problem with application of a new gripper designed, constructed and built by the author is presented in the paper. The design work concentated on ensuring that the hand can contact with a variety of different shape objects made of flexible materials of different properties as well as fragile objects requiring particular caution when manipulated. Additionally it was ass...

While many fluid instabilities involving free surfaces are governed by interfacial forces the classic example being surface tension real materials often have surface forces produced by physical processes not present in the bulk. A striking example of this is a viscoelastic micellar fluid, in which the long tubelike aggregates form at low concentrations due to the presence of an organic salt/cos...

David Morales-Alamo, Marcos Martin-Rincon, Mario Perez-Valera, X Samuele Marcora, and José A. L. Calbet Department of Physical Education, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira s/n, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; Research Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences (IUIBS), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Department of Sports and Informat...

Approximately 40% of males with the fragile X premutation develop fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome after age 50. Although the thalamus and basal ganglia play a crucial role in movement disorders, their involvement in fragile X premutation carriers has not been systematically investigated. The current study characterized structural abnormalities associated with fragile X premutation c...

Fragile X syndrome is the leading single gene cause of intellectual disabilities. Treatment of a Drosophila model of Fragile X syndrome with metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) antagonists or lithium rescues social and cognitive impairments. A hallmark feature of the Fragile X mouse model is enhanced mGluR-dependent long-term depression (LTD) at Schaffer collateral to CA1 pyramidal synapses...

Cryptosporidium fragile sp. n. (Apicomplexa) is described from black-spined toads, Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider) (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae) from the Malay Peninsula. The parasitized animals were directly imported from Malaysia and harboured C. fragile at the time of arrival. Oocysts were subspherical to elliptical with irregular contour in optical section, measuring 6.2 (5.5-7.0) x 5...

......................................................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................ 3 1.0 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Aims and Object...