The Gender Congruency Effect and the Selection of Freestanding and Bound Morphemes: Evidence From Croatian.

The authors report 3 picture-word interference experiments in which they explore some properties of the agreement process in speech production. In Experiment 1, Croatian speakers were asked to produce utterances in which the noun's gender value had an impact on the selection of gender-marked freestanding morphemes (pronouns) while ignoring the presentation of same- or different-gender distractor words. In Experiments 2 and 3, Croatian speakers were asked to name the same pictures using noun phrases in which the noun's gender value surfaced as an inflectional suffix. Different-gender distractors interfered more than same-gender distractors (the gender congruency effect) in Experiment 1, but not in Experiments 2 and 3. These contrasting results show that the cause of the gender congruency effect is not at the level where lexical-grammatical information is selected but at the level of selection of freestanding morphemes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Solution of the problem of oscillations of laminated plates in geometrically nonlinear statement

The article deals with the problem of oscillations of laminated plates with large deflection. It analyzes the fields of application of the refined theory of shear for its solution.Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 8, pp. 47–52, August, 1993.     

Physicomechanical properties and failure of detonation coatings

Conclusions The effect of the complex of external factors such as plastic deformation, temperature, chemical interaction causes structural and phase changes of powder materials in detonation coatings leading to relatively low ductility of the coating. The bend strength of the coatings up to 0.25 mm thick is similar to that of the dense materials. To produce high-quality detonation coatings, it is necessary to avoid hard temperature and kinetic parameters of the spraying process, and the extent of deformation of the particles should be limited to minimize formation, in the coatings, of internal stresses and a defective structure. Coatings made of alloyed steels with a large amount of the hardening phase are especially sensitive to defects.The physicochetnical and mechanical properties of the coatings on the substrates showed the strong mutual effect in the process of formation of the coatings and combined deformation under loading. This fact must be taken into account in selecting coating-substrate pairs for service in the conditions specified in advance.The mechanism of failure of detonation of coatings up to 0.25 mm thick produced by optimum technology in three-point bend loading does not differ from the mechanism of failure of the dense materials. With increasing thickness of the coatings their strength and ductility properties rapidly decrease and the failure mechanism also changes.Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, No. 11(299), pp. 88–94, November, 1987.     

Criterion for Selecting Composite Materials for Explosion Containment Structures (Review)

Experimental data on the dynamic response and strength of simple shells of fiber composites are used to justify the choice of these materials for the load-bearing shells of blast-proof structures. It is shown that in such structures composites are preferred to homogeneous metal alloys (structural steels) to eliminate strong scale effects of an energetic nature. A criterion for selecting fibers is proposed and justified experimentally, and reinforcement patterns are determined to obtain optimal (in the strength-mass ratio) compositions for the load-bearing shells of blast-proof containers and chambers. __________ Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 3–13, September–October, 2005.     

The Concept of Chamber Design for Explosive Thermonuclear Fusion Energetics

The possibility of realizing the solution of mankind's energy problem by the explosive thermonuclear fusion method that was proposed by Academician A. D. Sakharov is assessed. The essence of the method consists of the use of the energy of low–power thermonuclear explosions performed cyclically in stationary explosion–proof chambers equipped with a means for selection and utilization of the thermal energy of the explosion. Here the basic problem is to design airtight chambers capable of withstanding multiple thermonuclear explosions whose power is equal to 10—25 ktons of TNT. The available data on this problem are examined. The concept of designingreliable explosion–proof chambers for the solution of the indicated problem is formulated.     

Effect of friction deformation on the structure and properties of a metastable austenitic chromium-nickel steel

The effect of surface friction deformation on the phase composition, structure, and strength properties of a ribbon produced from a chromium-nickel steel with metastable austenite is studied. It is shown that friction processing intensifies the γ-α transformation, creating favorable conditions for the formation of a highly dispersed structure in a thin surface layer and, thus, increasing the microhardness, the elastic limit, the fatigue stability, and the Bauschinger effect.