ABSTRACTKirigami is an art of paper cutting, which can be used in mechanical metamaterials, actuators, and energy absorption based on its deployable and load-deflection characteristics.Traditional cuts with zero width produce undesirable plastic deformation or even tear fracture due to stress concentration in stretching.This study proposes to enlar
Titanium (Ti) and its alloys have been widely used as orthopedic implants, because of their favorable mechanical properties, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility.Despite their significant success in various clinical applications, the probability of failure, degradation and revision is undesirably high, especially for the patients with low bone
Biogenic silica (BSi) is used as a proxy by soil scientists to identify biological effects on the Si cycle and by palaeoecologists to study environmental changes.Alkaline extractions are typically used to measure BSi in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.The dissolution properties of volcanic glass in tephra deposits and their nanocrystallin
The redactors of the two Alfonsine histories are perhaps more grammatical than rhetorical; the free Castilian versions of their Latin originals are more notable for their clarity than for their eloquence.The editors do, however, apply two figures Activity Table of rhetoric routinely throughout their text, transition and aetiologia.A few passages on
Computer aided analysis plays a nontrivial role in assisting the diagnosis of various eye pathologies.In this paper, we propose a framework to help diagnose the presence of Aggressive Posterior Retinopathy Of Prematurity (APROP), a pathology that is characterised by rapid onset and increased tortuosity of blood vessels close to the optic disc (OD).