Moreover, there is a worldwide concern regarding the increasing presence of crown fires in forest types that were historically prone to surface fires.
These interventions deeply modified the original rural landscape, characterized by sparse vegetation cover in relation to a long history of intense grazing and subsistence cropping, and by soils prone to surface crusting and to high runoff generation.
Stress analysis from the finite-deformation model reveals that the SiNWs are prone to surface fracture at the angular sites where two adjacent {110} facets intersect, consistent with previous experimental observations.
In electrospinning, electrostatic interaction between charged fibers and the collection substrate can result in poor and non-uniform coverage, particularly when electrically insulating substrates are used, because they are prone to surface charge accumulation.
In case of metal substrates prone to surface reactions in presence of liquid water, AWT investigations may not be appropriate to characterize the as-received surface state but only the surface state after wet chemical treatments.
There is strong evidence that soils prone to surface crusting and sealing would benefit from conventional tillage once every 2 or 3 years.
Slope vegetation clearing for urban development purposes often leaves the slope prone to surface erosion prior to revegetation establishment.
When interfaced with the biological environment, biomedical devices are prone to surface biofouling due to adhesion of microbial or thrombotic agents as a result of the foreign body response.
Such sharp resonances are a strong hint that losses are indeed not very pronounced, despite a large surface-to-volume ratio, which is prone to induce surface damping effects.
The analytical results show that the square billet exhibits a much larger damage factor than the round billet, and also than the critical damage value of pure Ti materials, which suggests that the square billet is hard to make deformation and prone to trigger surface cracks.
