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Showing 1 to 20 of 3889 for “""A Pair of Silk Stockings""”.
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Reading In Vogue: The Function of Fashion in Three Chopin Short Stories
… per year. Today, that would be a clothing budget of more than $12,000. With the ever-increasing interest in cultural studies of objects, particularly clothing and fashion, it is startling that more has not been done with the nineteen short stories Kate Chopin published in the magazine between …
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Evidence that aciniform silk and minor ampullate silk are major constituents of wrapping silk from the black widow
<p>Spider silk is one of the most remarkable materials produced in the natural world and its strength and extensibility are legendary. To date, the majority of studies have been performed on the following silks: dragline, capture spiral, and eggcase silk. The primary goal of this study was to …
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The Effect of Compression Stockings and Foot Exercises on Venous Blood Velocity
<p>To provide information of the effect of knee length compression stockings and foot exercise on venous blood velocity, an exploratory pilot study was conducted. An additional purpose of the investigation was to evaluate the noninvasive doppler ultrasonic flowmeter as a data collecting tool.</p> …
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Spinning of synthetic spider silk-like fibers and ex vivo rheology of spider silk
Spider silk has been hailed as nature's super-fiber based on its mechanical properties. A synthetic analog would have numerous applications, from the textile industry to suspension cables for bridges. This thesis discusses attempts to spin a synthetic spider silk-like material (a concentrated …
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Beyond Silk: A Re-Evaluation Of Jin Painting (1115 - 1234)
This dissertation is a study of painting from China’s Jin dynasty (1115 – 1234). It presents a systematic analysis of painted works on silk, paper, and temple and tomb walls. Although the Jin dynasty lasted for 119 years, Jin painting is treated often as a footnote to the more highly revered …
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Characterication of aggregate gland silk factor 1
<p>Spider silk is a high performance fiber with extraordinary mechanical properties, including high tensile strength and toughness. Due to these outstanding material properties, scientists are rapidly pursuing the production of synthetic spider silks for a variety of different applications. In …
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Biomimicry of the spider silk spinning apparatus
<p>Spider silk is known for its extraordinary material properties, being both very strong and extensible. Even though the fibers outperform many synthetic and natural materials, it is impractical to collect industrial amounts of silk from spiders due to their cannibalistic and venomous nature; they …
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Conceptualizing Silk Road as countercultural rebellion
Silk Road (SR) is an anonymous online illicit marketplace (OIM) that is often cited as an example of criminal innovation. I add that SR is more than just a marketplace and should be considered as a demonstration of rebellion. The aim of this research is to critically co-construct a definition of SR …
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Fog Harvesting: Inspired by Spider Silk
… world. One proposed solution that has drawn lots of attention is fog harvesting. A commonly used fog collector is a vertical mesh, usually made of poly materials. Small water droplets can easily get pinned and quick evaporation is the major common challenge for vertical meshes. Coating the fog …
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The Synthetic spider silk fibers spun from Pyriform Spidroin 2, a glue silk protein discovered in orb-weaving spider attachment discs
<p>Spider attachrnentdisc silk fibers are spun into a viscous liquid that rapidly solidifies, gluing dragline silk fibers to substrates for locomotion or web construction. Here we report the identification and artificial spinning of a novel attachment disc glue silk fibroin, Pyriform Spidroin 2 …
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Behavior of a silkworm silk fiber web structure under wind load
Optimized by Nature for millions of years, silk is one of the strongest biomaterials with outstanding mechanical properties, it is both extensible and tough in order to ensure specific functions. In particular, protein-based Bombyx mori silkworm silk's stiffness is originated from the crystalline …
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A Visualization Framework for SiLK Data exploration and Scan Detection
Network packet traces, despite having a lot of noise, contain priceless information, especially for investigating security incidents or troubleshooting performance problems. However, given the gigabytes of flow crossing a typical medium sized enterprise network every day, spotting malicious …
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Sequence-structure correlations in the MaSp1 protein of N. clavipes dragline silk
Silk is a hierarchically structured protein fiber with exceptional tensile strength and extensibility, making it one of the toughest and most versatile biocompatible materials. While experimental studies have shown that the molecular structure of silk has a direct influence on the stiffness, …
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TISSUE ENGINEERING CELLULARIZED SILK-BASED LIGAMENT ANALOGUES
… and eventual rise to prominence in the field of tissue engineering, that electrospinning has experienced over the last decade speaks to the simplicity and adaptability of the process. Electrospinning has been used for the fabrication of tissue engineering scaffolds intended for use in nearly …
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Molecular dynamics analysis of supercontraction in spider dragline silk
Spider dragline silk is a material that has evolved over millions of years to develop finely tuned mechanical properties. It is a protein-based fiber, used as the main structural component in spider webs and as a lifeline for the spider, and it combines strength and extensibility to give it …
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Design of Engineered Biomaterial Architectures Through Natural Silk Proteins
Silk proteins have provided a source of unique and versatile building blocks in the fabrication of biomedical devices for addressing a range of applications. Critical to advancing this field is the ability to establish an understanding of these proteins in their native and engineered states as well …
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Synthesis and characterization of silk-inspired thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers
… ordered structures within the hard or soft domains were developed to mimic the hierarchical structure and superior properties observed in spider silk fibers. The silk's toughness is related to a fiber morphology that includes P-pleated crystalline sheets within an amorphous matrix, as …
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A discovery and analysis of influencing factors of pair programming
… into the underlying psychosocial links of pair programming. a new and unorthodox programming paradigm in which two programmers share one keyboard and monitor during real-time programming sessions, is undertaken. These complex psychosocial relationships, along with cognitive process …
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Interaction of a vortex pair and a free-surface : numerical simulation
The interaction between a submerged vortex pair with a deformable free-surface in a viscous, incompressible fluid is directly simulated and the flow is thoroughly analyzed. This is a time-dependent nonlinear free-surface problem which we solve numerically by integrating the two-dimensional …
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