Free vibration analysis of two novel spherical-roof contoured cores (SRCC): A numerical study

In recent years, sandwich structures have been increasingly developed as advanced composite structural components. Different core designs of sandwich structure have been proposed and investigated to improve the structural performance in aerospace industry, which is generally made of aluminium, carbon fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRP) and glass fibre-reinforced plastics (GFRP). It is a challenging task to reduce the impact influence on vibration behaviour as core structure, while still maintains the excellent strength and structural performance. This paper aims to investigate the free vibration characteristics of the spherical-roof contoured cores (SRCC) as core structure in sandwich panel. The two novel core designs, three types of materials and two boundary conditions were investigated using the finite element method. It was shown that glass fibre-reinforced plastic material could have much more mode numbers on common and novel core designs comparing with metal and CFRP materials. It was concluded that the metal, CFRP and GFRP materials had nearly same trend as the mode increased. Moreover, natural frequency, maximum magnitude and mode shape were determined in this study

Transcriptional Specificity Analysis of Testis and Epididymis Tissues in Donkey

Donkeys, with high economic value for meat, skin and milk production, are important livestock. However, the current insights into reproduction of donkeys are far from enough. To obtain a deeper understanding, the differential expression analysis and weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) of transcriptomic data of testicular and epididymis tissues in donkeys were performed. In the result, there were 4313 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the two tissues, including 2047 enriched in testicular tissue and 2266 in epididymis tissue. WGCNA identified 1081 hub genes associated with testis development and 6110 genes with epididymal development. Next, the tissue-specific genes were identified with the above two methods, and the gene ontology (GO) analysis revealed that the epididymal-specific genes were associated with gonad development. On the other hand, the testis-specific genes were involved in the formation of sperm flagella, meiosis period, ciliary assembly, ciliary movement, etc. In addition, we found that eca-Mir-711 and eca-Mir-143 likely participated in regulating the development of epididymal tissue. Meanwhile, eca-Mir-429, eca-Mir-761, eca-Mir-200a, eca-Mir-191 and eca-Mir-200b potentially played an important role in regulating the development of testicular tissue. In short, these results will contribute to functional studies of the male reproductive trait in donkeys

The Evolution of IJHCS and CHI: A Quantitative Analysis

In this paper we focus on the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) as a domain of analysis, to gain insights about its evolution in the past 50 years and what this evolution tells us about the research landscape associated with the journal. To this purpose we use techniques from the field of Science of Science and analyse the relevant scholarly data to identify a variety of phenomena, including significant geopolitical patterns, the key trends that emerge from a topic-centric analysis, and the insights that can be drawn from an analysis of citation data. Because the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has always been a central focus for IJHCS, we also include in the analysis the CHI conference, which is the premiere scientific venue in HCI. Analysing both venues provides more data points to our study and allows us to consider two alternative viewpoints on the evolution of HCI research