Exercise-induced vessel changes modulate arterial pressure (AP) in male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is important for angiogenesis of skeletal muscle. The present study evaluated the time course of VEGF and angiogenesis after short- and long-term exercise training of female SHR and Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats, 8-9 weeks (200-250 g). Rats were allo...

By measuring the geometry and crystallography of the three interfaces that meet at grain boundary thermal grooves, it is possible to determine the anisotropy of the surface free energy. Previously, the surface energy of MgO at 1400◦C in air was approximated by a truncated double Fourier series with coefficients that were determined by fitting the observations to Herring’s condition for local eq...

This paper extends the modified Cam-Clay model to describe behaviour of unsaturated soils by replacing effective stress with scaled stress. The accounts for mechanical effect capillarity factoring Bishop’s a power function degree saturation. extendedmodified postulates existence yield curve in mean

Solid particles floating at a liquid interface exhibit a long-ranged attraction mediated by surface tension. In the absence of bulk elasticity, this is the dominant lateral interaction of mechanical origin. Here, we show that an analogous long-range interaction occurs between adjacent droplets on solid substrates, which crucially relies on a combination of capillarity and bulk elasticity. We ex...

We study minimal surfaces which arise in wetting and capillarity phenomena. Using conformal coordinates, we reduce the problem to a set of coupled boundary equations for the contact line of the fluid surface and then derive simple diagrammatic rules to calculate the nonlinear corrections to the Joanny-de Gennes energy. We argue that perturbation theory is quasilocal--i.e., that all geometric le...