A discrete dislocation study of thin film interfacial fracture

... bimaterial fracture studies of O'Day and Curtin (2005) to thin film interfacial fracture Lengthscale dependent plasticity, an important feature of plasticity in micrometer-sized films, naturally ... A DISCRETE DISLOCATION STUDY OF THIN FILM INTERFACIAL FRACTURE Chng Chia-K'ai Audrey (B Eng (Hons.), M Eng, NUS) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:37

... the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript CKY was involved in the conception, participated in the coordination of the study and data analysis DAS and SS were involved in the critical revision ... acromion was in total contact with the lateral end of the clavicle [See Additional file 1] The distal clavicular reference point was defined as the point...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... history of diabetes and higher body mass indexes During the five years of follow-up, 1 02 (15 .2% ) patients in the normoglycaemia group and 66 (18.3%) patients in the hyperglycaemia group died There ... inclusion in the study We excluded 21 1 patients who refused to participate in the study, 20 3 patients due to terminal illness, and another 29...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... analysed the results and drafted the article MS was involved in critically revising the draft JG made substantial contributions to the data analysis GB was substantially involved in the analysis, ... Proportion of medicationorder entry (CPOE) using the Clinical Informacomputerised physician order entry (CPOE) using the Clinical Information System with 95% confide...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... compare the safety and efficacy of three bone health Plans using three independent sequentially enrolled groups of healthy women 40 years of age and older The primary outcome measure was changes in ... reviewed in the meta-analysis cited above As for the unusual finding of the increased BMD levels found in the three study groups, the superiority...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... burial of the dead; a gesture, such as a handshake or an idea, such as democracy Following this understanding, cultural trait may be an act, such as greeting And addressing forms in greetings also ... basic forms of address in English greetings 2.3 Addressing Forms in Greetings in Vietnamese and English 2.3.1 Addressing Forms 2.3.1.1 In Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40

... “Communication is, rather, the successful interpretation by an addressee of a speaker’s intent in performing a linguistics act” (Georgia M Green, Natural Language Understanding, p.1) And a linguistics ... data that reveal the cultural orientation of language learners (In many languages, compliment responses require the language user to walk a delicate line between appearin...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... CHAPTER II ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS USING NAMES OF ANIMALS 2.1 English and Vietnamese Idioms Using Names of Animals 2.1.1 The Names of Animals in English Idioms 2.1.2 The Names of Animals ... Pedagogical Suggestions for Teaching English Idioms Teaching and learning a language are teaching and learning a culture Language and culture can not be separ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... holders as to whether these sites can be said to facilitate copyright infringement The aim of the study was to measure and analyse these websites in a way that was objective, evidence-based and determined ... for the ‘Training data’ We selected a further 104 websites to be used to validate the segmentation – ‘Validation data’ 4.2.3 Obtaining the data an...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... by Al-Hindi in his Kanz Al-Ummal (28113), by al-Ajlouni in ‘Kashf Al-khafa’ (Uncovering of the concealment), and by Ibn Al-Jawzi in Tathkarat Almawdhooaat /207/ (Memo of subjects) This tradition ... place when the professor and researcher A k John alias AlDayrani, began verifying and Prof A K John with doctors publishing the books of his great teacher, the savant Mohammad Amin Sheik...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20

... curtailed) Figure ES.1: Marginal economic value of variable generation and an annual at- block of power with increasing penetration of variable generation in 2030 The marginal economic value ... penetration indicates the value of increasing penetration beyond 10% while the greater marginal value at lower penetration levels indicates that the ave...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... reading mass at an altar In Wurzburg Cathedral are the pillars of Boaz and Jachin, and in the altar of the Church of Doberan, in Mecklenburg, placed as Masons use them, and a most significant scene ... Power, as in Egypt Horus and Sut were the twin -builders and supporters of heaven; and Bacchus among the Thebans At the entrance of the temple of Amenta...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... broadly, marriage is considered a cultural universal In Oxford dictionary, marriage is a legal relationship between a husband and a wife 2.2 Vietnamese s opinion Marriage has a vital role in Vietnamese ... assigment, the aims are discussed in the issues of intercultural communication in outlook on love, marriage between Vietnamese and American Specially,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 17:31

... sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: measures of the African brain drain Human Resources for Health 2004, 2:17 Hagopian A, Ofosu A, Fatusi A, Biritwum R, Essel A, Gary Hart L, et al.: ... coordinators: Brooke Myers, Australia; Mamunur Rashid, Bangladesh; Maja Kovacevic, Croatia; Mohammed Atef Abd El Hakim, Egypt; Suresh Panthee and Ganesh Subedi, Nepal; Pedro Lucas and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20