This paper describes an approach to the analysis of lexical cohesion using WordNet. The approach automatically annotates texts with potential cohesive ties, and supports various thesaurus based and text based search facilities as well as different views on the annotated texts. The purpose is to be able to investigate large amounts of text in order to get a clearer idea to what extent semantic r...

A spatio-temporal cohesive network represents a social network in which people often interact closely in both space and time. Spatially and temporally close people tend to share information and show homogeneous behavior. We discuss modeling social networks from spatiotemporal human activity data, and alternative interest measures for estimating the strength of subgroup cohesion in spatial and t...

The time dependence of fracture has two sources: (1) the viscoelasticity of material behavior in the bulk of the structure, and (2) the rate process of the breakage of bonds in the fracture process zone which causes the softening law for the crack opening to be rate-dependent. The objective of this study is to clarify the differences between these two influences and their role in the size effec...

Cohesive zone models are commonly used to numerically model fracture phenomena on the microscale. Typical processes described experimentally via Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) test and End Notched Flexure (ENF) macroscale. Analytical solutions, e.g. LEFM-based beam theory, evaluate these tests validate numerical models. However, some input parameters of cohesive models, i.e. stiffness strength, i...

A few of the presented soil behavior models are capable of predicting the triggering and post liquefaction and also shear band mechanism through the soil media. The assessment of earth-dam body behavior as a soil structure made of cohesive soil in core and non-cohesive soil as the core supports, including water interaction at upstream through earthquake upon a multi-line constitutive equations ...

This thesis deals with distributed cohesive control of swarms of dimensionless particles and applicability of this approach for using with swarms of micro aerial vehicles. I have implemented a set of algorithms presented in [11] that leads to the cohesive swarm behavior of ground robots in a plane and extended these algorithms to 3D space for control of unmanned aerial vehicles. The behavior of...

www.PRSJournal.com 958 Reply: Comparison of Allergan, Mentor, and Sientra Contoured Cohesive Gel Breast Implants: A Single Surgeon’s 10-Year Experience: Correction I the September 2016 letter by Afrooz and Davidson entitled “Reply: Comparison of Allergan, Mentor, and Sientra Contoured Cohesive Gel Breast Implants: A Single Surgeon’s 10-Year Experience” (Plast Reconstr Surg. 2016;138:549e–550e),...

Measurement of forces between two individual particles in the millimeter and micrometer size range is difficult to accomplish and yet these are the particles that are normally encountered in many commercial systems. A cohesive force apparatus (CFA) first used by one of the authors [E.D. Shchukin, R.K. Yusupov, E.A. Amelina, P.A. Rebinder, Kolloidn. Zh. 31 (1969) 913] was modified here for study...

An open source program to generate zero-thickness cohesive interface elements in existing finite element discretizations is presented. This contribution fills the gap in the literature that, to the best of the author’s knowledge, there is no such program exists. The program is useful in numerical modeling of material/structure failure using cohesive interface elements. The program is able to ge...