COMPLEXITY: A NEW PARADIGM FOR FRACTURE MECHANICS

Complexity: a new paradigm for fracture mechanics

The so-called Complexity Sciences are a topic of fast growing interest inside the scientific community.Actually, researchers did not come to a definition of complexity, since it manifests itself in so many different ways [1].This field itself is not a single discipline, but rather a heterogeneous amalgam of different techniques of mathematics and s

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Approachable Case Studies Support Learning and Reproducibility in Data Science: An Example from Evolutionary Biology

ABSTRACTResearch reproducibility is essential for scientific development.Yet, rates of reproducibility are low.As increasingly more research relies on computers and software, efforts for improving reproducibility rates have focused on making research products digitally available, such as publishing analysis workflows as computer code, and raw and p

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Quantifying the uncertainties of climate change effects on the storage-yield and performance characteristics of the Pong multi-purpose reservoir, India

Climate change is predicted to affect water resources infrastructure due to its effect on rainfall, temperature and evapotranspiration.However, there are huge uncertainties on both the magnitude and direction of these effects.The Pong reservoir on the Beas River in northern India serves irrigation and hydropower needs.The hydrology of the catchment

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Effect of the colour of pitfall traps on their capture efficiency of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), spiders (Araneae) and other arthropods

Pitfall trapping is one of the most ORTHO-SLEEP commonly used methods of sampling ground-dwelling arthropods.There are many studies on the effect of design of pitfall traps on their capture efficiency but, so far, none on the influence of the colour of the pitfall trap.In this study the abundances of seven invertebrate groups (Apidae, Araneae, Cara

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