By drawing on the multiple ways that one can interpret the idea of causality within the MIMIC model, we then demonstrate how the continued defense of the MIMIC model as a tool to validate formative indicators and to identify formative variables in structural models is misguided. We also present...
structural elements or other individual parts/members of multibody systems. For mechanical analysis, the formulation of theDEMis based on the contacts between individual members, their kinematics and theirdeformation mechanismsif they are deformable. For rock engineering problems, the rock blocks are defin...
The discussions in this chapter will be limited to computer simulations at the microstructure level, which requires the knowledge of structures and properties of individual structural features in a microstructure, much of which can, in principle, be obtained using atomistic level first-principles ...
(d) Cross-sectional view of the modal shape of the bottom limit of the first bandgap and its simplified model. Full size image To give a structural explanation of the frequency tuning of the second passband, the model of Fig. 4a,b is proposed. In Fig. 4a a schematic view of the ...
such trends might be too short-lived to be visible in our study (Perreault,2012). The absence of evidence for socially exerted selective pressure should therefore not be taken as evidence of absence. Because the identification of trends is not an explanation of cultural evolution in itself, link...
base - a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) nucleotide base pair - one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the ...
The calculated total energy and enthalpy have been used as criteria to judge the structural models built with consideration of symmetry. Our simulation indicates that the doped TiC tends to form its own domain up to the investigated nano-scale, which implies a possible phase separation. This ...
As with Crooke’s later discussion of the eye’s structure, Tomkis’ Visus offers the eyes’ shape and structural resemblance to the macrocosm as testimony for his supremacy within a hierarchy of the senses. Again, like Crooke, Tomkis might be challenging the conventional understanding of the ...
Matter consisting of atoms in a regular structural order (or, alternatively, in fully statistical disorder) is classified as homogeneous since the inhomogeneities are too small to effect optical fields. This applies to crystalline, liquid, and glassy or amorphous matter likewise. All geometrical/...
Providing a prediction of the life expectancy of materials and structural components requires an initial testing. This is necessary to accurately develop and use mathematical models for the numerical analyses. For this procedure, the dimensional changes of the materials at constant temperature and constan...