Serum corticosterone was previously studied in numerous elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates and rays), but the role of this steroid, widespread throughout many taxa, has yet to be defined. The goal of this study was to test whether corticosterone varied in response to acute and chronic capture stress, and across the reproductive cycle in the bonnethead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, and Atlantic stingr...

Early life experiences shape an individual's physical and mental health across the lifespan. Not surprisingly, an upbringing that is associated with adversity can produce detrimental effects on health. A central theme that arises from studies in human and nonhuman species is that the effects of adversity are mediated by the interactions between a mother and her young. In this review we describe...

INTRODUCTION Achieving spatially uniform and hierarchically structured microstructures during the shape-forming of colloidal ceramics depends largely on (t) the magnitude of the effective stresses (i.e., stresses that are supported by the particulate network) and (ii) plastic properties, which in turn are significantly altered by processing parameters affecting interparticle friction and adhesi...

In this paper, a high frequency contactless power transfer (CPT) system is designed with ∅2 inverter drive. This system works in 30MHz frequency and 380W power with low voltage stress and considers the inductive link parasitic capacitor effect. In the design, we formulated the inverter equations first and then suggested another design for the transmitter and the receiver coils as the energy tra...

abstract at present study constant rate of strain (crs) consolidation under non-darcy condition was investigated. in this study a governing conditions of drainage pore water were investigated using proposed equation. the crs experiments under different rates of strain were conducted on different soil samples. results these experiments and there comparison with proposed equation showed that flow...

We study the response of the ocean thermocline in the Pacific to arbitrary periodic wind stress perturbations in the low-frequency limit. This approximation assumes that the characteristic period of the wind forcing is much longer than the propagation timescales of the first-order baroclinic waves involved in ocean adjustment. Starting from the reduced-gravity 11⁄2-layer model and building on t...

Robust speech recognition systems must address variations due to perceptually induced stress in order to maintain acceptable levels of performance in adverse conditions. One approach for addressing these variations is to utilize front-end stress classification to direct a stress dependent recognition algorithm which separately models each speech production domain. This study proposes a new appr...

Some preliminary investigations on within-speaker variations due to induced stress have been performed. The background is that we wanted to investigate ways to take care of within speaker variations in speaker verification. To get speaker variation, speaking behaviour elicitation software has been developed. The software is used to record speech from 50 Swedish male speakers. In this paper the ...

In this paper, the crack growth and variations of stress intensity factor in rotary disks with central hole is studied. For modeling and analyzing samples, the FRANC2D software is used and to predict stress intensity factor, DACE emulator (Design & Analysis of Computer Experiments) is used and, at the end comparison between results of modeling and results of simulator has been done. The emulato...