The putative linkages now appeared as discrete bridges distributed irregularly across the length of the mitochondrial – PVM contact zone (Fig. 4B).
The behaviour of wet agglomerates in which the particles are joined by discrete pendular bridges depends not only on the forces developed at the contact points, but also on the rupture energy of each bridge.
Each agglomerate comprised 1000 primary particles with the interparticle interactions modelled as the combination of the solid solid contact forces and also the forces developed at discrete liquid bridges between neighbouring particles.
The infinitesimal calculus that took form in the 16th and 17th centuries, which had as its primary subject matter continuous variation, may be seen as a kind of synthesis of the continuous and the discrete, with infinitesimals bridging the gap between the two.
Clearly, the power posterior distribution can be used to define a discrete set of bridging distributions between the prior and posterior distribution.
Discrete, two-dimensional fiber bridges are employed, which allows separate bridge "clocks", to compute slow crack-growth rates for composites containing Nicalon-CG and Hi-Nicalon fibers.
However, the gap between the discrete and continuous models is bridged by recent studies, most notably Holmberg et al.
The second one introduced by ourselves can be regarded as a bridge between the discrete and the first auxiliary obstacle problems.
In the present work, the tangential viscous force models for a pendular liquid bridge used in Discrete Element Method (DEM) in literature are reviewed first, and then new models are proposed by modifying the Xu model (Xu et al., 2005) based on the numerical solution of the pressure equation derived from the lubrication theory.
Given the transition network P, we modelled the evolutionary trajectories that may give rise to C4 photosynthesis through the picture of a discrete analogue to a Brownian bridge, that is as a stochastic process on P with constrained start and end positions (Revuz and Yor, 1999).
