Animals with the human gene defect grow bigger and bigger muscles -- some, like cats, can become so muscular that even their tongues get huge, unable to fit in their mouths.
It is to be sure that the defect grows mostly in the boundary and surface of the crystal grain.
We ask a more general question: suppose there is a defect on or near the interface between the membrane and the micro-hole edge, will this defect grow?
If the defect grows, elastic energy is released locally to debond or break the membrane and part of the membrane is relaxed.
A short crack approach has been developed to determine the fatigue crack initiation life at a notch tip, in which the initiation life is assumed to correspond to the period during which an initial crack, equivalent to a microscopic defect, grows to attain a detectable size.
Finally, in the last step of fusion, this point defect grows and the components of the two bilayers mix and diffuse away from the site of contact.
Some of those studies suggest that as atrazine concentrations rise, the incidence of birth defects grows.
For further strains, these defects grow in the tensile direction and damage affects a larger area of spherulites.
Initially oxidation starts at the bottom of pores or craters produced by small droplets or by growth defects grown on the droplets.
To identify the size and location requirements for a mandibular critical-size bone defect in growing pigs, the present study investigated the spontaneous healing of surgically created mandibular defects.
"Every defect is growing and the longer you wait the worse the degradation gets," Mr. Witzany said.
