The process of rupture could be visualized from side and front views.
That is because, during the process of rupture and formation, the monomer can be localized closer or further away from the rest of the contact.
Recent studies have also indicated that autophagy, an intracellular bulk degradation system responsible for lysosomal degradation of protein and other subcellular constituents, is increased in placentas from women with preeclampsia in comparison to those obtained from healthy pregnancies [14] and that it participates in the process of rupture of fetal membranes [15].
This is because we focus on the developing process of dynamic rupture and because small patches do not play significant roles in rupture propagation once the larger patch is broken.
In secondary spontaneous pneumothoraces, vulnerabilities in the lung tissue are caused by a variety of disease processes, particularly by rupturing of bullae (large air-containing lesions) in cases of severe emphysema.
The primary function of the ovaries is to nurture and prepare oocytes (eggs) for the process of ovulation (rupture and release of the mature egg from the ovary).
The proposed filament dissolution model has been deemed as self-accelerated due to the process of the rupture of filament accelerates by itself under suitable conditions.
The dynamic process of earthquake rupture is governed by the energy balance between the released elastic energy and the fracture energy along the interface, with its transient frictional behavior being characterized by a slip-weakening process after the onset of rupture (Ida 1972; Palmer and Rice 1973).
In addition to convenience and traditional reasons, the smoothness constraint is derived by considering the process of earthquake rupture, where the spatial variation of fault slip must be smooth to some degree (Yabuki and Matsu'ura 1992).
We think that the geophysical observations helped to understand the initiation process of the rupture of the 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake and that observations including seismological, geodynamic, hydrogeological, and the other multidisciplinary observations would provide a clue to future understanding of seismogenic processes at subduction zones.
