The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of the inbred rat model for studies of genetic influences on skeletal fragility. We characterized bone mass, geometry, and skeletal biomechanics in 11 inbred strains of rats. This study showed that considerable variation exists in bone structure, areal bone mineral density (aBMD), and fragility phenotypes among inbred strains of rats. Interesti...

We report a novel method of detecting the glass --> liquid transition at high pressures, which comprises measuring the relative volume change incurred upon heating glassy samples into the liquid state. We show data on glycerol in the pressure range 0.050-1.00 GPa to demonstrate the viability of the method. The reversible glass --> liquid transition is observed by means of a kink in the relative...

in this paper, we give some characterizations for legendre spherical, legendre normal and legendre rectifying curves in the 3-dimensional sasakian space. furthermore, we show that legendre spherical curves are also legendre normal curves. in particular, we prove that the inverse of curvature of a legendre rectifying curve is a non-constant linear function of the arclength parameter.

We examine the sensitivity and surface bias of convolved DGLV radiative and elastic loss in a realistic geometry including Bjorken expansion. We find that this more faithful treatment of the medium density is not a priori reproducible via fixed length approximations, and neither the fragility nor the surface emission of BDMPS-based models is seen.

The question of the AT involved in strange-particle decays is discussed in terms of universal Fermi interactions. The fundamental interactions considered contain b, T&—, as suggested by both experimental and purely theoretical considerations. It is found that by assuming global symmetry in both the pion coupling and the weak coupling one may restrict the AT to —, in a class of processes involve...

Flood management is more and more adopting a risk based approach, whereby flood risk is the product of the probability and consequences of flooding. One of the most common approaches in flood risk assessment is to estimate the damage that would occur for floods of several exceedance probabilities (or return periods), to plot these on an exceedance probability-loss curve (risk curve) and to esti...

Abstract The objective of this study is to analytically assess the effectiveness a novel composite rubber bearing (CRB), which proposed enhance both displacement and damping capacities laminated natural (LNB), in improving seismic performance girder bridges. Four numerical bridge models respectively with unbonded bonded LNBs CRBs (i.e. ULNB, BLNB, UCRB, BCRB) are established based on restoring ...

Abstract Floods pose significant risk to riparian buildings as evidenced during many historical events. Although structural resilience tsunami flooding is well studied in the literature, high-velocity and debris-laden floods steep terrains are not considered adequately so far. Historical necessitate need for flood vulnerability analysis of buildings. To this end, we report riparian-reinforced c...

REINHOLD, B.M., M.R.C.P., D.C.H. AND 1)AvID YI-YUNG HSIA, M.D. I ORDER to obtains a better ttnderstanding of tise factors causitsg destruction of human erythrocytes its vivo, a number of methods have beets devised to test their susceptil)ihty to destructions by various forces applied in vitro. By manipulation of temperature, pH, osmotic equilih)rium and by the addition of hemolysitis, ithas bee...