We assessed the effect of using an alternative failure definition on the dose response characteristics of high-risk prostate cancer treated with radiotherapy alone.
Because the maximum in hydrostatic stress under the notch, σh, increases with the polymer's age, defined by the value of the state parameter Sa, and given the proportionality between Sa and the yield stress, σy, an alternative failure criterion is proposed which is a molecular weight dependent critical value of the evolving yield stress, σy,c.
This work further demonstrates the need to employ FE failure analysis as a complimentary or alternative failure analysis approach where the destruction/alteration of the fracture markings by corrosion could affect the accuracy of fractographic failure analysis.
For now, though, it seems to accept that the alternative is failure.
"Old's our game," says the woman (not the poet) who speaks in the sonnet "We Own the Alternative": "Mere failure to be young is not interesting".
When they consider it, and the alternative of failure, they will realise that this is the only way anyone is ever going to get any terrorist decommissioning".
At college, the student is responsible for ensuring that they attend the course - the alternative is failure, rather than a series of measures set by a senior member of staff.
The alternative of failure would simply be too high a price to pay.
The alternative -- failure to act in time to save our earth's climate -- will lead not only to natural but to economic devastation for our country and the world.
And perhaps more importantly, it won't slow growth nearly as much as the alternative— the failure to act quickly on climate change.
The framework can consider statistical dependencies among risks from multiple hazards, allows updating by considering the newly available data/information at any level, and provide a novel way to explore alternative failure scenarios that may exist due to vulnerabilities.
