This paper presents an effective three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear explicit dynamic meshfree algorithm for the simulation of soft tissue mechanical responses. In the algorithm soft tissues are considered to be hyperelastic and nearly incompressible materials. The algorithm is based on the element-free Galerkin (EFG) method using total Lagrangian formulation and moving least square (MLS) approxim...

This paper presents an efficient meshless method for analyzing cracked piezoelectric structures subjected to mechanical and electrical loading. In this method, an element free Galerkin (EFG) formulation, an enriched basic function and some special shape functions that contain discontinuous derivatives are employed. Based on the moving least squares (MLS) interpolation approach, the EFG method i...

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Relativistic Dirac-Coulomb (DC) Hartree-Fock calculations are employed to obtain the analytic electric field gradient (EFG) on the antimony nucleus in the SbN, SbP, SbF, and SbCl molecules. The electronic correlation contribution to the EFGs is included with the DC-CCSD(T) and DC-CCSD-T approaches, also in the four-component framework, using a finite-difference method. The total EFG results, al...

In eubacteria, ribosome recycling factor (RRF) and elongation factor G (EFG) function together to dissociate posttermination ribosomal complexes. Earlier studies, using heterologous factors from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Escherichia coli revealed that specific interactions between RRF and EFG are crucial for their function in ribosome recycling. Here, we used translation factors from E. col...

Fusarium graminearum is a plant pathogen, which causes crop diseases and further leads to huge economic damage worldwide in past decades. Recently, the accumulation of different types of molecular data provides insights into the pathogenic mechanism of F. graminearum, and might help develop efficient strategies to combat this destructive fungus. Unfortunately, most available molecular data rela...

Lactating Wistar rats were fed a liquid diet containing either ethanol [ethanol-fed group (EFG)] or an isocaloric amount of carbohydrate [pair-fed group (PFG)] from day 1 postpartum up to day 14 of lactation, to investigate micro/macronutrient milk composition and the mineral status of pups. EFG presented a reduction of daily milk production and milk composition was significantly higher in prot...

Film archives, containing collections of cinema-related digital material, have been created in many European countries. Today, the EC Best Practice Network Project EFG (European Film Gateway) provides a single access point to 59 collections from 19 archives and across 14 European countries, for a total of 640,000 digital objects. This paper illustrates challenges and solutions in the realizatio...

We present a framework to solve for best responses in extensive-form games (EFGs) with imperfect information by transforming the games into Information-Set MDPs (ISMDPs), and then applying simulation-based reinforcement learning methods to the ISMDPs. We first show that, from the point of view of a single player, an EFG can be represented as an Information-Set POMDP (ISPOMDP) whose states corre...

The diffuse element method developed by Nayroles et al. is a new way for solving partial differential equations. In this method, only a mesh of nodes and a boundary description is needed to develop the Galerkin equations. The approximating functions are polynomials fitted to the nodal values of each local domain by a weighted least squares approximation. Belytschko et al. developed an alternati...