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Chang Yan, Wen-Jie Fan, Da-Miao Wang and Wen-Zhang Zhang
Mechanical interfaces are prevalent in industries like aerospace and maritime, where the normal contact stiffness on these surfaces is a crucial component of the overall stiffness of mechanical structures. From the perspective of structural mechanics, no...
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Ping Jiao and Shun-Jun Hu
Shallow groundwater is an important water source for Haloxylon ammodendron (H. ammodendron). The accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ETg) from groundwater is of great significance for the water cycle and the maintenance of ecological stability. Us...
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Anna Bieniek, Arkadiusz Bieniek and Natalia Bielska
Elaeagnus multiflora Thunb., also known as ?cherry silverberry?, ?cherry elaeagnus?, and ?goumi? has been used for a long time in traditional Chinese medicine as a phytosterol-rich plant. Today, the fruits of this species are also becoming more popular a...
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Nikolai B. Korostelev, Igor V. Volvenko, Vladimir V. Belyakov, Aleksey A. Baytaliuk, Andrey G. Bush, Albina N. Kanzeparova and Alexei M. Orlov
Physiculus cynodon is a member of the Moridae family and possesses a ventral bioluminescent organ. Although it has been captured by commercial vessels for decades, our understanding of its biology and ecology remains fragmented. This paper provides data ...
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Nikolai B. Korostelev, Dirk C. Welsford, Vladimir V. Belyakov, Andrei G. Bush and Alexei M. Orlov
Age and growth of blue antimora Antimora rostrata were examined in the waters off New Zealand and Macquarie Island (southwestern Pacific). Samples off Macquarie Island were collected from bycatch in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery. Individuals ...
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Joshua Bush, Chih-Hsiang Hu and Remi Veneziano
DNA hydrogels are self-assembled biomaterials that rely on Watson?Crick base pairing to form large-scale programmable three-dimensional networks of nanostructured DNA components. The unique mechanical and biochemical properties of DNA, along with its bio...
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Kim Hagen, Michael G. Petterson, David Humphreys and Nigel Clark
At 07:45 a.m. on 2 April 2007, a tsunami hit Ghizo Island, western Solomon Islands in the south-west Pacific. Thirty-three people died on Ghizo, of whom 31 originated from a relatively small migrant Gilbertese community (transmigrated in the 1950s?1970s ...
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Jean-Jacques Ponciano, Moritz Roetner, Alexander Reiterer and Frank Boochs
Through the power of new sensing technologies, we are increasingly digitizing the real world. However, instruments produce unstructured data, mainly in the form of point clouds for 3D data and images for 2D data. Nevertheless, many applications (such as ...
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Tanja Bohinc, Aleksander Horvat, Miha Ocvirk, Iztok Jo?e Ko?ir, Ksenija Rutnik and Stanislav Trdan
In a laboratory experiment, we studied the insecticidal effects of invasive alien plants on the rice weevil. The research was carried out in two parts. In the first part, we studied the insecticidal properties of seven different plant species, namely, Bo...
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Diangeng Li, Zicheng Zhang, Shifei Liu and Song Li
In liquid mediums, whether the breakdown strength can be greatly improved after introducing the nano-particles has been widely investigated, however, there has been no scientific consensus on the modification mechanism of this anomalous phenomenon. In th...
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