524 research outputs found
Assessing Variability in Microstructural Influence on Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior
The effect of microstructural variability has long been recognized as a major contributing factor in the scatter of published fatigue data. It is also acknowledged that these effects are generally more prevalent for short cracks and in the threshold region. A number of models exist to explain individual microstructural effects such as grain boundary influence, grain cluster, average grain size, porosity etc. It is the aim of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Fatigue Lab to develop an encompassing model that accurately predicts these effects.
In order to develop this model a range of material data will be required to inform and validate the model simulation. It is the aim of this thesis to develop the methods required to generate suitable fatigue crack data and also image the crack propagation and strain fields.
The methodology from ASTM E647 was used for the determination of crack growth data with the notable exception of the use of compression pre-cracking and relevant crack growth models for the ESE(T) specimen. Compression pre-cracking methods have been utilised as data have shown that standard pre-cracking methods may affect crack growth rate data and the determination of threshold values. High and low load ratio tests were conducted with closure accounted for, allowing for accurate determination of the fatigue crack growth threshold.
High resolution DIC imagery was captured for a range of loads over a range of crack lengths and enabled the visualization of material strain fields. The imagery also allowed correlation between fatigue crack growth variability, closure data and the tortuosity of the crack surface
Investigating the Prevalence and Impact Of Incivility In Medical Schools: A Review of the Literature
Incivility in healthcare occurs at all levels, but is largely studied among nurses. The focus of this proposal is the prevalence and impact of incivility in graduate medical education
Effectiveness of Multiple Recruitment Strategies for a Large Clinical Trial with Learner Teen Drivers
Many studies do not achieve their goal for participant enrollment (Mapstone, Elbourne, & Roberts, 2002).
• Longitudinal studies with teen drivers are rare, in part due to the difficulty with recruitment and attrition as well as necessarily strict inclusion criteria (Lee et al., 2011; McCartt, Farmer, 7 Jenness, 2010).• The sources used for recruitment can be a determining factor in the effectiveness of the overall enrollment rates.
• A community-based randomized controlled trial required recruitment of a large number of participants, 512 parent-teen dyads, in a short period of time. This is a post-hoc analysis of the most effective forms of recruitment we found for this study
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Crumble: reference free lossy compression of sequence quality values
Motivation: The bulk of space taken up by NGS sequencing CRAM files consists of per-base quality values. Most of these are unnecessary for variant calling, offering an opportunity for space saving. Results: On the Syndip test set, a 17 fold reduction in the quality storage portion of a CRAM file can be achieved while maintaining variant calling accuracy. The size reduction of an entire CRAM file varied from 2.2 to 7.4 fold, depending on the non-quality content of the original file (see Supplementary Material S6 for details). Availability and implementation: Crumble is OpenSource and can be obtained from https://github.com/jkbonfield/crumble. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.This work was funded by the Wellcome Trust [WT098051]
Harvesting NASA's Common Metadata Repository (CMR)
As part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), the Common Metadata Repository (CMR) stores metadata for over 30,000 datasets from both NASA and international providers along with over 300M granules. This metadata enables sub-second discovery and facilitates data access. While the CMR offers a robust temporal, spatial and keyword search functionality to the general public and international community, it is sometimes more desirable for international partners to harvest the CMR metadata and merge the CMR metadata into a partner's existing metadata repository. This poster will focus on best practices to follow when harvesting CMR metadata to ensure that any changes made to the CMR can also be updated in a partner's own repository. Additionally, since each partner has distinct metadata formats they are able to consume, the best practices will also include guidance on retrieving the metadata in the desired metadata format using CMR's Unified Metadata Model translation software
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THE METABOLSIM AND TOXICITY OF RADIUM-223 IN RATS
This report covers studies of the excretion and retention of 'tracer' and toxic doses of the 11.2-day Ra{sup 223} isotope, its acute toxicity (organ weight changes, gross and microscopic pathology, and Fe{sup 59} utilization by the bone marrow), and long-term histopathological changes and alterations in the hemogram
SHROOM3 is downstream of the planar cell polarity pathway and loss-of-function results in congenital heart defects
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect, and the leading cause of death due to birth defects, yet causative molecular mechanisms remain mostly unknown. We previously implicated a novel CHD candidate gene, SHROOM3, in a patient with CHD. Using a Shroom3 gene trap knockout mouse (Shroom3gt/gt) we demonstrate that SHROOM3 is downstream of the noncanonical Wnt planar cell polarity signaling pathway (PCP) and loss-of-function causes cardiac defects. We demonstrate Shroom3 expression within cardiomyocytes of the ventricles and interventricular septum from E10.5 onward, as well as within cardiac neural crest cells and second heart field cells that populate the cardiac outflow tract. We demonstrate that Shroom3gt/gt mice exhibit variable penetrance of a spectrum of CHDs that include ventricular septal defects, double outlet right ventricle, and thin left ventricular myocardium. This CHD spectrum phenocopies what is observed with disrupted PCP. We show that during cardiac development SHROOM3 interacts physically and genetically with, and is downstream of, key PCP signaling component Dishevelled 2. Within Shroom3gt/gt hearts we demonstrate disrupted terminal PCP components, actomyosin cytoskeleton, cardiomyocyte polarity, organization, proliferation and morphology. Together, these data demonstrate SHROOM3 functions during cardiac development as an actomyosin cytoskeleton effector downstream of PCP signaling, revealing SHROOM3’s novel role in cardiac development and CHD
Non-perturbative dynamics of hot non-Abelian gauge fields: beyond leading log approximation
Many aspects of high-temperature gauge theories, such as the electroweak
baryon number violation rate, color conductivity, and the hard gluon damping
rate, have previously been understood only at leading logarithmic order (that
is, neglecting effects suppressed only by an inverse logarithm of the gauge
coupling). We discuss how to systematically go beyond leading logarithmic order
in the analysis of physical quantities. Specifically, we extend to
next-to-leading-log order (NLLO) the simple leading-log effective theory due to
Bodeker that describes non-perturbative color physics in hot non-Abelian
plasmas. A suitable scaling analysis is used to show that no new operators
enter the effective theory at next-to-leading-log order. However, a NLLO
calculation of the color conductivity is required, and we report the resulting
value. Our NLLO result for the color conductivity can be trivially combined
with previous numerical work by G. Moore to yield a NLLO result for the hot
electroweak baryon number violation rate.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figur
The Vehicle, Fall 2006
Table of Contents
Ferris WheelEmily Daviscover
HerStephen Jefferiespage 1
UntitledBob Freyderpage 2
Writing at O\u27BrienWillie Joseph Morrispage 3
Blanks and HabitsRebecca M. Griffithpage 4
Soldier\u27s NightmareCraig A. Dennispage 5
UntitledLindsey Durbinpage 6
A Slow, Painless DeathJacob Fosterpage 7
ThoughtAmanda Yealepage 8
The SociopathBob Freyderpage 9
EasyRebecca M. Griffithpage 10
My PartnerDiedre Mapespage 11
BarriersSuzanne Krahnpage 12
The mind is a prisonJordan Hohespage 13
We Were Shirtless When Thousands DiedMitch Jamespage 14
ComplaintAmanda Yealepage 15
UntitledBob Freyderpage 16
MarkedAmanda Yealepage 17
She Wears Red Lipstick, He, Heartsick EyesRebecca M. Griffithpage 18
PrayerAmanda Yealepage 19
HomeDeej Rolewskipage 20
Your DreamDiedre Mapespage 21
Even Fingers Get LonelySuzanne Krahnpage 22
AggressivityMitch Jamespage 23
FallenMitch Jamespage 24
CollapseMario Podeschipage 36
The Italian CrisisAndy Masterspage 41
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