Histological and electromyographic studies indicate that longitudinal muscle fibre splitting is a common finding in neuromuscular disorders. Separated fragments derived by splitting may undergo degeneration or enlarge to become separate, innervated fibres, thus leading to an increased number of fibres within motor units. Splitting may, therefore, lead to the formation of clusters of fibres of u...

Computing solutions of convection-diffusion equations, especially in the convection dominated case, is an important and challenging problem that requires development of fast, reliable numerical methods. We propose a second-order fast explicit operator splitting (FEOS) method based on the Strang splitting. The main idea of the method is to solve the parabolic problem via a discretization of the ...

Two-step water-splitting with a carbon-bearing Ni(II) ferrite (CBNF) at 300°C has been studied. The chemical analysis of the solid phase showed that the CBNF was gradually oxidized during repeated water splitting, but the evolved H2 amount is 1.5-2 times larger than that expected &om the oxidation of the CBNF. Following two types of hydrogen evolution reactions are considered to be participated...