Experimental measurement of the plastic biaxial mechanical response for an aluminum alloy (AA5754-O) sheet metal is presented. Traditional methods of multiaxial sheet metal testing require the use of finite element analysis (FEA) or other assumptions of material response to determine the multiaxial true stress versus true strain behavior of the as-received sheet material. The method used here s...

For many years, concern about nutrition during pregnancy was closely linked to the well-being of fetus, mother and prevention perinatal mortality. In 2010, number newborn deaths up 4 weeks life four million worldwide, with an unequal distribution among developed developing countries (GLASSMAN ET AL. 2010). Mortality in neonatal period, which comprises period between birth 28 days newborn, is on...

When Raisa El-Kurdi, PharmD, CPP, started as a PGY1 community-based pharmacy resident at the Counseling and Psychological Services clinic University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill, she would accompany psychiatrist during patient visit. But these collaborative visits quickly evolved into El-Kurdi conducting her own appointments specifically with patients who have ADHD. According to study pu...

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I the enhancement of blood clotting associated with stress was caused by the liberation of adrenaline in plasma. In 1957, N 1977 DESMOPRESSIN (1-deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin, abbreviated DDAVP), a derivative of the antidiuretic hormone, was used for the first time to treat patients a possible mechanism for faster clotting after adrenaline was provided by Marciniak, who found a transient inc...

Neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, and dementias, produce huge medicinal and socioeconomic burdens for patients and society, posing significant challenges to clinical and preclinical researchers. For example, animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders allow more advanced pharmacological, biochemical, immune-histochemical, electrophysiological, and other techniqu...

vs. argumentative contexts If our approach is right, reasoning should be more easily triggered in argumentative situations. We should therefore expect better performances on reasoning tasks where the participants are placed in such situations. Standard theories make no such prediction. If anything, argumentative contexts should increase the cognitive load since they involve taking into account ...

In the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, aging is defined as the number of daughter cells that one mother cell can produce. Aging mother cells undergo a number of morphological changes, yet they retain the capacity to give rise to young daughter cells throughout much of their life span. As they become old, however, the daughters they produce have depleted division potential. Full life span is ev...

Organisations increasingly have to deal with complex problems. Multidisciplinary teams are needed to cope with such problems. In such teams, different people have different perspectives, knowledge and approaches. For decision-making on complex problems, this knowledge has to be shared, and new knowledge has to be constructed, in order to develop solutions for the problem. Theory suggests that I...

Agent-based modeling is an important tool for the engineering of systems of systems. This paper briefly reviews the historical development of agent-based modeling and system of systems concepts, compares agent-based modeling to other approaches, and describes the Purdue Discrete Agent Framework for agent-based modeling. An application of the Discrete Agent Framework to a system of systems is de...