I critically examine some recent work on the philosophy of scientific fictions, focusing on the work of Winsberg. By considering two case studies in fracture mechanics, the strip yield model and the imaginary crack method, I argue that his reliance upon the social norms associated with an element of a model forces him to remain silent whenever those norms fail to clearly match the characteristi...

One of the disadvantages in Connection of wind energy conversion systems (WECSs) to transmission networks is plentiful turbulence of wind speed. Therefore effects of this problem must be controlled. owadays, pitch-controlled WECSs are increasingly used for variable speed and pitch wind turbines. Megawatt class wind turbines generally turn at variable speed in wind farm. Thus turbine operation m...

Staphylococcus capitis EPK1 produces a glycylglycine endopeptidase, ALE-1 (M. Sugai, T. Fujiwara, T. Akiyama, M. Ohara, H. Komatsuzawa, S. Inoue, and H. Suginaka, J. Bacteriol. 179:1193-1202, 1997), which hydrolyzes interpeptide pentaglycine chains of cell wall peptidoglycan of S. aureus. Characterizations of the enzyme activity and cloning of ale-1 revealed that ALE-1 is very similar to prolys...

In this paper we consider the solution of hyperbolic conservation laws on moving meshes by means of an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) formulation. In particular we propose an ALE framework for the genuinely explicit residual distribution schemes of (Ricchiuto and Abgrall J.Comput.Phys 229, 2010). The discretizations obtained are thoroughly tested on a large number of benchmarks Key-words: ...

Keywords: Second order differential systems Saddle point theorem Generalized Ahmad–Lazer–Paul type condition a b s t r a c t Existence of periodic solutions to second order differential systems with gyroscopic forces is considered via variational methods, where a generalized Ahmad–Lazer–Paul type condition is used. We do not impose the condition that the gyroscopic forces are small.

Citation: Ahmad GR, Kumar S, Ahmad D and Shammas MA (2017) Risk Assessment to Evaluate if Crayons Complying with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 for Lead, Also Comply with California Proposition 65. Front. Public Health 5:130. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00130 Risk Assessment to Evaluate if Crayons Complying with the Consumer product Safety improvement Act of 2008 for Lead, Also...

In this supplementary document, we present how we characterize diversity in solutions along with some oracle statistics (Section 1.1) , and show some example success and failure cases of our re-ranker (Section 2). 1. Analyzing Diverse Segmentations In this section, we characterize the diversity achieved in the multiple segmentations. Specifically, we investigate the sources of diversity, and at...

A novel staphylolytic enzyme, ALE-1, is a glycylglycine endopeptidase produced by Staphylococcus capitis EPK1. ALE-1 possesses seven histidines. Chemical modification studies using diethylpyrocarbonate and iodoacetic acid suggested that a histidine or tyrosine residue(s) in the molecule is important for the organism's staphylolytic activity. All of the histidine residues, one tyrosine, and one ...