Combining damage and fracture mechanics to model calving

Calving of icebergs is a major negative component of polar ice-sheet mass balance.Here we present a new calving model relying on both continuum damage mechanics and linear elastic fracture mechanics.This combination accounts for both the slow sub-critical surface crevassing and the rapid propagation of crevasses when calving occurs.First, damage to

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Sexual Dimorphism in the Age of Genomics: How, When, Where

In mammals, sex chromosomes start to program autosomal gene expression and epigenetic patterns very soon after fertilization.Yet whether the resulting sex differences are perpetuated throughout development and how they connect to the sex-specific expression patterns in adult tissues is not known.There is a dearth of information Body Moisturizer on

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Fate-mapping and functional dissection reveal perilous influence of type I interferon signaling in mouse brain aging

Abstract Background Aging significantly elevates the risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases.Neuroinflammation is a universal hallmark of neurodegeneration as well as normal brain aging.Which branches of age-related neuroinflammation, and how they precondition the brain toward pathological progression, remain ill-understood.The presence of Ch

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