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Street networks in relation to landforms: Implications for fast-growing cities

In addition to socio-economic factors, major landforms may affect the city structure and urban form. Here we show that landforms have significant effects on the city shape and street patterns of the fast-growing Iranian cities of Dezful (a river) and Khorr ...

Science Press2014

Coiling of elastic rods on rigid substrates

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

We investigate the deployment of a thin elastic rod onto a rigid substrate and study the resulting coiling patterns. In our approach, we combine precision model experiments, scaling analyses, and computer simulations toward developing predictive understand ...

2014

Hydraulics, Air Entrainment, and Energy Dissipation on a Gabion Stepped Weir

Davide Wüthrich

In the last decades the design of stepped spillways regained some interest because of their suitability with new construction methods including gabions. The hydraulic performances of gabion stepped weirs were investigated experimentally in terms of the flo ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2014

Electrostatic self-assembly of microsphere lens arrays

Martinus Gijs, Thomas Lehnert, Matteo Cornaglia, Hui Yang

We propose a novel versatile method for the rapid and low-cost fabrication of microsphere arrays to be used as lenses of desired geometry and optical properties. Our method is based on the electrostatic self-assembly of dielectric microspheres in Parylene- ...

2014

On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps

Jeffrey David Jensen

Underlying any understanding of the mode, tempo and relative importance of the adaptive process in the evolution of natural populations is the notion of whether adaptation is mutation limited. Two very different population genetic models have recently been ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Mathematical analysis and numerical simulation of pattern formation under cross-diffusion

Ricardo Esteban Ruiz Baier

Cross-diffusion driven instabilities have gained a considerable attention in the field of population dynamics, mainly due to their ability to predict some important features in the study of spatial distribution of species in ecological systems. This paper ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Adiabatic vertical downward air-water flow pattern map: influence of inlet device, flow development length and hysteresis effects

John Richard Thome, Navid Borhani, Marco Milan

Flow patterns for adiabatic vertical downward air water flow in an 8.8 mm diameter channel have been studied. In particular, the influence of the inlet device, the flow history and the development length on the flow pattern have been investigated and asses ...

Elsevier2013

Cell shape-dependent early responses of fibroblasts to cyclic strain

Jürgen Brugger, Mattia Marelli

Randomly spread fibroblasts on fibronectin-coated elastomeric membranes respond to cyclic strain by a varying degree of focal adhesion assembly and actin reorganization. We speculated that the individual shape of the cells, which is linked to cytoskeletal ...

Elsevier2013

Can satellite based pattern-oriented memory improve the interpolation of sparse historical rainfall records?

Anton Schleiss, Théodora Cohen Liechti

Ther is a standing challeng in obtaining long localized records of rainfall data in many large river basins of the developing world. Recent spaceborne instrumentation offers a constente source of rainfall information, but this information covers only a rel ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Local control of protein binding and cell adhesion by patterned organic thin films

Andreas Stephan Lesch, Gunther Wittstock

Control of the cell adhesion and growth on chemically patterned surfaces is important in an increasing number of applications in biotechnology and medicine, for example implants, in-vitro cellular assays, and biochips. This review covers patterning techniq ...

2013

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