The fatigue crack initiation and propagation phases have been widely studied by the scientific community. There are several models to describe low-cycle fatigue behaviour based on strain damage criteria, but the most widely ...

Wood is a material widely used in various sectors of construction, such as in structures and building components. The volume of wood extracted from tropical forests has reached a considerable amount, and this wood is ...

The broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) is a South American crocodilian with a wide geographical distribution. Water bodies originally occupied by the species have suffered extreme anthropogenic pressure; however, ...

The head is the most important and specialized region in the body because it contains a range of specialized organs and, because it has interconnections between specialized organs, there is a great overlap of images. Thus, ...

A new methodology for density estimation is proposed. The method- ology, which builds on the one developed in [15], normalizes the data points through the composition of simple maps. The parameters of each map are determined ...