effective elastic properties for carbon nanotube reinforced composites are obtained through a variety of micromechanics techniques. an embedded carbon nanotube  in  a  polymer  matrix  and  its surrounding  interphase  is  replaced with an equivalent fiber for  predicting  the  mechanical  properties of  the  carbon  nanotube/polymer composite. the effects of an interphase layer between the nan...

Skin, the largest organ in the body, performs many important roles including protection against physical and chemical insults, regulation of temperature and fluid loss, and immunity and sensory roles. Once damaged, skin cannot perform these normal tasks and numerous complications such as infection or fluid loss can occur. To restore these roles, the body needs to close the wound as quickly as p...

Using the techniques of quasi-Hermitian quantum mechanics and quantum field theory we use a similarity transformation to construct an equivalent Hermitian Hamiltonian for the Lee model. In the field theory confined to the V/Nθ sector it effectively decouples V , replacing the three-point interaction of the original Lee model by an additional mass term for the V particle and a four-point interac...

It is now quite agreed that the IP layer should provide more sophisticated services than the simple best-effort service to meet the application’s quality of service requirements. Different proposals for improving the IP stack have been proposed but their deployment on experimental network shows different scaling problems. In this paper we present a new differentiated service scheme called “Equi...