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Ecological variation in response to mass-flowering oilseed rape and surrounding landscape composition by members of a cryptic bumblebee complex
(Public Library of Science, 2013-06-19)The Bombus sensu stricto species complex is a widespread group of cryptic bumblebee species which are important pollinators of many crops and wild plants. These cryptic species have, until now, largely been grouped together ... -
Edge wrinkling in elastically supported pre-stressed incompressible isotropic plates
(The Royal Society Publishing, 2016-09-07)The equations governing the appearance of flexural static perturbations at the edge of a semi-infinite thin elastic isotropic plate, subjected to a state of homogeneous bi-axial pre-stress, are derived and solved. The plate ... -
The effect of an exterior electric field on the instability of dielectric plates
(The Royal Society, 2020-07-29)We investigate the theoretical nonlinear response, Hessian stability, and possible wrinkling behaviour of a voltage-activated dielectric plate immersed in a tank filled with silicone oil. Fixed rigid electrodes are placed ... -
Effect of individual plasma components on the performance of a glucose enzyme electrode based on redox polymer mediation of a flavin adenine dinucleotide-dependent glucose dehydrogenase
(Elsevier, 2019-02-11)The performance of glucose enzyme electrodes, consisting of crosslinked flavin adenine dinucleotide glucose dehydrogenase (FADGDH), an osmium redox polymer and multi-walled carbon nanotubes on graphite electrodes, was ... -
Effect of substrate geometry on liquid-crystal-mediated nanocylinder-substrate interactions
(American Institute of Physics, 2008)Using classical density functional theory, the liquid crystal (LC)-mediated interaction between a cylindrical nanoparticle and a structured substrate is studied. The surface is structured by cutting a rectangular groove ... -
Effect of sulfate on low-temperature anaerobic digestion
(Frontiers Media, 2014-07-24)The effect of sulfate addition on the stability of, and microbial community behavior in, low-temperature anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed-based bioreactors was investigated at 15 degrees C. Efficient bioreactor ... -
Effect of surface chemistry on islet amyloid polypeptide conformation
(American Institute of Physics, 2020-09-04)The formation of dense, linear arrays (fibrils) by biomolecules is the hallmark of a number of degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer s and type-2 diabetes. Protein fibrils have also attracted interest as building blocks ... -
Effect of surface structure on peptide adsorption on soft surfaces
(Elsevier, 2020-08-28)Understanding protein adsorption onto material surfaces is a major challenge in the design of biomaterials. While this has been long studied, knowledge of how the nanoscale surface structure affects protein adsorption is ... -
Effects of ball-milling and cryomilling on sulfamerazine polymorphs: A quantitative study
(Elsevier, 2014-04-11)The effects of ball-milling and cryomilling on sulfamerazine forms I and II (SMZ FI, FII) were investigated using X-ray powder diffraction, infrared and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. Cryomilling resulted in a complete ... -
Effects of nerve bundle geometry on neurotrauma evaluation
(Wiley, 2018-06-16)ObjectiveWe confirm that alteration of a neuron structure can induce abnormalities in signal propagation for nervous systems, as observed in brain damage. Here, we investigate the effects of geometrical changes and damage ... -
Eight rules for improving the quality of papers on the antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteria isolated from aquatic animals
(Inter-Research Science Publisher, 2020-04-30)The methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacteria, although relatively simple, are not robust. As a consequence, if the data generated in such tests are to be commensu- rate, all susceptibility tests must ... -
Elastic Cherenkov effects in transversely isotropic soft materials-I: Theoretical analysis, simulations and inverse method
(Elsevier, 2016-06-25)A body force concentrated at a point and moving at a high speed can induce shear-wave Mach cones in dusty-plasma crystals or soft materials, as observed experimentally and named the elastic Cherenkov effect (ECE). The ECE ... -
Elastic interface acoustic waves in twinned crystals
(Elsevier, 2003)A new type of interface acoustic waves (IAW) is presented, for single-crystal orthotropic twins bonded symmetrically along a plane containing only one common crystallographic axis. The effective boundary conditions show ... -
Electro-elastic Lamb waves in dielectric plates
(Elsevier, 2020-05-20)We study the propagation of Lamb waves in soft dielectric plates subject to mechanical and electrical loadings and find the explicit expressions for the dispersion equations in the cases of neo-Hookean and Gent dielectrics. ... -
Electro-mechanical response of a 3D nerve bundle model to mechanical loads leading to axonal injury
(Wiley, 2017-11-21)Traumatic brain injuries and damage are major causes of death and disability. We propose a 3D fully coupled electro-mechanical model of a nerve bundle to investigate the electrophysiological impairments due to trauma at ... -
Electro-mechanically guided growth and patterns
(Elsevier, 2020-07-01)Several experiments have demonstrated the existence of an electro-mechanical effect in many biological tissues and hydrogels, and its actual influence on growth, migration, and pattern formation. Here, to model these ... -
Electrolysis of low-grade and saline surface water
(Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2020-02-17)Review Article Published: 17 February 2020 Electrolysis of low-grade and saline surface water Wenming Tong, Mark Forster, Fabio Dionigi, Sören Dresp, Roghayeh Sadeghi Erami, Peter Strasser, Alexander J. Cowan & Pau ... -
Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) in the SEM: applications to microstructures in minerals and rocks and recent technological advancements
(Sociedad Española de la Mineralogía, 2008-09-16)Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is based on the principle that a beam of electrons generated in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is the source of randomly scattered electrons in a specimen. The backscattered ... -
Electron beam therapy at extended SSD: a Monte Carlo investigation of output fom a Siemens Oncor linear accelerator
(2008)Electron-beam therapy is used to treat superficial tumors at a standard 100 cm source-to-surface distance (SSD). However, certain clinical situations require the use of an extended SSD. In the present study, Monte Carlo ... -
Electrostatically tunable axisymmetric vibrations of soft electro-active tubes
(Elsevier, 2020-05-28)Due to their unique electromechanical coupling properties, soft electro-active (SEA) resonators are actively tunable, extremely suitable, and practically important for designing the next-generation acoustic and vibration ...