A substantial number of COVID-19 survivors describe ongoing symptoms long after the acute phase.This so-called post-COVID-19 syndrome or long COVID occurs irrespective of initial disease severity.Objectives: This cross-sectional study aims to describe and characterise the prevalence of persistent COVID-19 symptoms beyond three months and to evaluat
Describing failure in geomaterials using second-order work approach
Geomaterials are known to be non-associated materials.Granular soils therefore exhibit a variety of failure modes, with diffuse or localized kinematical patterns.In fact, the notion of failure itself can be confusing with regard to granular soils, because it is not associated with an obvious Dishwasher Basket Wheel Clip phenomenology.In this study,
Self-adaptive alternating direction method of multiplier for a fourth order variational inequality
Abstract We propose an alternating direction method of multiplier for approximation solution of the unilateral obstacle problem with SKIN GEL GREEN the biharmonic operator.We introduce an auxiliary unknown and augmented Lagrangian functional to deal with the inequality constrained, and we deduce a constrained minimization problem that is equivalent
A Twisted String, Flexure Hinges Approach for Design of a Wearable Haptic Thimble
Wearable haptic devices in the shape of actuated thimbles are Decor used to render the sense of touch in teleoperation and virtual reality scenarios.The design of similar devices has to comply with concurring requirements and constraints: lightweight and compactness, intensity and bandwidth of the rendered signals.Micro-sized motors require a mecha
Phylogeny and mitochondrial gene order variation in Lophotrochozoa in the light of new mitogenomic data from Nemertea
Abstract Background The new animal phylogeny established several taxa which were not identified by morphological analyses, most prominently the Ecdysozoa (arthropods, roundworms, priapulids and others) and Lophotrochozoa (molluscs, annelids, brachiopods and others).Lophotrochozoan interrelationships are under discussion, e.g.regarding the position