The Earth’s surface is under the continuous influence of a variety of natural forces and human induced sources. Strain data are good examples of such disturbed signals. To determine the geodetic strain behavior before and after the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake (M8.0), we decomposed the disturbed strain data into trend, air pressure, earth tide, and precipitation responses components. The decompo...

in this paper, we first define spaces of single difference sequences defined by a sequence of orlicz functions without convexity and investigate their properties. then we extend this idea to spaces of double sequences and present a new matrix theoretic approach construction of such double sequence spaces.

We present the mechanism and the extent of increase in the oxygen anion diffusivity in Y2O3 stabilized ZrO2 (YSZ) under biaxial lattice strain. The oxygen vacancy migration paths and barriers in YSZ as a function of lattice strain was assessed computationally using density functional theory (DFT) and nudged elastic band (NEB) method. Two competing and non-linear processes acting in parallel wer...

This paper presents a bio-inspired approach for the design of strain sensors embedded in space structures. Campaniform sensilla, which are natural strain sensors, are used by insects for monitoring deformations of their bodies. The strategy used in nature is to locally amplify, through arrays of elliptical micro-holes, mechanical deformations. The authors focused their research on campaniform s...

in this paper, we deal with the subdierential concept onhadamard spaces. flat hadamard spaces are characterized, and nec-essary and sucient conditions are presented to prove that the subdif-ferential set in hadamard spaces is nonempty. proximal subdierentialin hadamard spaces is addressed and some basic properties are high-lighted. finally, a density theorem for subdierential set is establi...

Despite the importance of multiaxial failure of trabecular bone in many biomechanical applications, to date no complete multiaxial failure criterion for human trabecular bone has been developed. By using experimentally validated nonlinear high-resolution, micromechanical finite-element models as a surrogate for multiaxial loading experiments, we determined the three-dimensional normal strain yi...

male guinea pigs show high susceptibility to burkholderia mallei and have been used as animal models in glanders studies. the purpose of our study was to elucidate glanders comparative pathogenesis in guinea pigs. we present here the histological changes and bacterial isolation that develop over time in guinea pigs inoculated intraperitoneally (ip) with two strain of b. mallei. ten male guinea ...

The space environment is reported to cause biological alterations in microorganisms, such as growth, drug resistance, and virulence. Here, we present the model of Enterococcus faecium to investigate the effects of space conditions on the microbe and on the whole-genome sequences of the strain LCT-EF20 after being exposed to space flight.

Enterobacter cloacae NUH10 was isolated at Nagasaki University Hospital in 1987. E. cloacae NUH10 is a mutant strain which produces high levels of cephalosporinase. E. cloacae ATCC 23355 is known to be sensitive to so-called third generation cephems and produces an inducible cephalosporinase. The polyclonal antibody to cephalosporinase extracted from E. cloacae NUH10 was utilized in post-embedd...