Cumulative damage effects of viscoelastic fracture Semiannual progress report

Investigating energy concept of adhesive failure and pressurized disk test for measuring adhesive value of bonded elastomer

Comment on: The Vitamin D⁻Folate Hypothesis as an Evolutionary Model for Skin Pigmentation: An Update and Integration of Current Ideas, Nutrients 2018, 10, 554.

In response to a recent article by Jones et al. (Nutrients 10: 554⁻568, 2018) [1], we agree that three distinctive features evolved in Homo erectus prior to the emergence of modern humans.[...]

The Effect of Urbanization on Bumble Bee Communities in Greater Philadelphia

Bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are among the most important wild pollinators in temperate ecosystems in North America and Europe, and are believed to be vital to the functioning of the pollination networks in which they occur. Accordingly, evidence of their overall decline in Europe and more selective decline in the U.S. has raised concern about the long term persistence of many species. Human-induced changes in land use, including the loss of natural and semi-natural habitat and associated floral resources, are purported causes in several cases. Declines prompted an investigation of this potential trend in the urbanized landscape in and surrounding Philadelphia, PA. We surveyed the species richness and abundance of bumble bee communities in ten half-ha plots located in restored, managed meadows along a gradient of urban and suburban development in the Philadelphia metropolitan area from June 1 to August 15, 2006. In conjunction with collections, we measured floral density within each plot. We calculated the proportion of developed land at differing spatial scales ranging from 500 to 4000 m from survey sites. General linear models were used to test the effect of developed land, local meadow size, and floral resource density on overall bumble bee species richness and abundance. 
Development did not have any detectable effect on species richness at any tested spatial scale. Bee abundance was best explained by a model that included the proportion of developed land at the 2500 m scale. In contrast to our expectations, total bumble bee abundance was significantly higher in plots with a higher proportion of developed land surrounding the site (F1,5 = 8.13, P = 0.04). Local floral density did not significantly affect richness or abundance (F 1,5 = 0.93, P = 0.34), nor was local resource quality associated with development (r = 0.52, P = 0.12) . We hypothesize that gardens maintained in urban and suburban landscapes may provide an important and consistent food supply to bumble bees throughout the duration of their colony cycle. Forested habitats, which were the other dominate habitat type, may actually be relatively poor in bumble bee resources following closure of the canopy in late spring. This research indicates that restored meadows are excellent habitat for bumble bees and may promote pollination services in urbanized settings.
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Mechanics of Fracture in Adhesive Joints

Interdependence of continuum mechanics and physical chemistry in failure analysis of adhesive

Non-destructive method for applying and removing instrumentation on helicopter rotor blades

A nondestructive method of applying and removing instrumentation on airfoils

Paramagnetic resonance effect in viscoelastic materials Annual progress report, 1 Jan. - 31 Dec. 1968

Electron paramagnetic resonance investigation of fracture in viscoelastic material