The confession, even if widely deemed partial, was a dramatic turnaround for a man who has spent two decades defying and threatening those who challenged his record.
The first face transplant, albeit partial, was carried out in France in 2005 and since then about a dozen more have been done, including three in Spain.
The amplitude of each partial was reduced successively by 20% compared to the previous one.
The transformation process involves slips of three equivalent shear partials, in contrast to that proposed in the literature where only a single shear partial was involved.
Once the trailing partial was absorbed into the {1 0 ¯1 1} twin boundary (TB), the leading and trailing partials recombined on the TB and the resulting recombined dislocation was split into two twinning dislocations.
The next ones are searched at fh+1= (f x + f0) ± f r, where f x = f i if the previous harmonic h was found at the frequency f i, or f x = f h if the previous partial was missing.
