the concept of indo-aryan group of peoples and their invasion has played a prominent role in explaining thecultural history of the indian sub-continent. it was propounded that the aryans, living somewhere outside india,invaded the indian sub-continent around 1500 b.c. and after supplanting the indigenous powers and culturessettled in india. the aryans were held responsible for the destruction o...

customer satisfaction is a critical element for excellence and achievement of anyorganization in a competitive environment. mosques as a nonprofit-religious institutionshould pay attention strongly to satisfying their customers namely prayers, so they cansurvive in a competitive environment of culture. present study aims to design a modelof determinants of people satisfaction to mosque and thei...

The P transposable element recently invaded wild Drosophila melanogaster strains worldwide. A single introduced copy can multiply and spread throughout the fly genome in just a few generations, even though its cut-and-paste transposition mechanism does not inherently increase copy number. P element insertions preferentially target the promoters of a subset of genes, but why these sites are hots...

In the context of substrate resistance modeling a combined BEM/FEM method is compared to a 3DFEM method. The combined BEM/FEM method is applicable in substrate modeling problems which involve layout-dependent doping patterns for which a standalone BEM would not be accurate enough and for which a standalone FEM would be too slow. The method captures local couplings within the doping pattern with...

Three subsequent Tertiary paleostress fields that are deduced from fault-slip data for the eastern part of the Tajo Basin are analyzed by finite-element studies. The modelling results show that maximum horizontal stresses (SHmax) are mainly controlled by the geometry of the model limits and the boundary conditions applied. The models are used to test two hypotheses on the origin of the Altomira...

Heart valves are functionally complex, making surgical repair difficult. Simulation-based surgical planning could facilitate repair, but current finite element studies are prohibitively slow for rapid, clinically-oriented simulations. An anisotropic, nonlinear mass-spring (M-S) model is used to approximate the behavior of valve leaflets and applied to fully image-based mitral valve models to si...

The paper reviews recent work on fundamentals of elastic-plastic finite-element analysis and its applications to the mechanics of crack opening and growth in ductile solids. The presentation begins with a precise formu~tion of incremental equilibrium equations and their finite-element forms in a marines valid for deformations of arbitrary magnitude. Special features of computational procedures ...

The proposed approach combines the advantages of isogeometric analysis (IGA) and scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM). The IGA is employed for idealization of the dam structure, while SBIGA is developed for modeling the semi-infinite fluid domain of reservoir and unbounded elastic half-space of the dam foundation. Water compressibility, reservoir boundary wave absorption can be taken i...