We provide the first quantification of the effectiveness of offsets in an Australian State (Western Australia) with an offsets register and history of offset implementation.
These results provide the first quantification of dendritic growth during the solidification of Mg alloys, confirming existing analytic models and providing experimental data to inform and validate more complex numeric models.
This work presents the first quantification of the dynamics of cell mechanical reinforcement under stress, which is a novel insight into the elucidation of the more general phenomenon of cell adaptation to stress.
As the first quantification of damage inflicted by Argentine ants, the study "gives us a good idea of the way native ants interact with exotic species," says Terry McGlynn, an ant ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
In a photogrammetric approach we calculated the volume of material extracted by Rhenish erosion providing a first quantification of the effects of stream piracy on timescales of about 1 Ma.
Combined microwear and 3D-topographic analyses performed on fossil and extant muroid molars allow for a first quantification of the relationships between changes in crown morphology and functionality of occlusion.
Various hypotheses have been proposed regarding the involvement of mechanical stresses in tumor development [8] [11], and Helmlinger et al. [12] conducted the first quantification of spheroid growth inhibition in agarose gels.
Our findings build on earlier anecdotal reports of the TwAE in patients with retinal scotomas [2], [27], and provide the first quantification of the TwAE in patients with eye disease.
These measurements provide the first quantification of the time course of force generation during cell spreading and support the view that each phase of spreading represents a distinct mechanical state of the cell, with overall forces increasing as the cell spreads.
