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Acta Materialia provides a forum for publishing full-length, original papers and commissioned overviews that advance the in-depth understanding of the relationship between the processing, the structure and the properties of inorganic materials. Papers that have a high impact potential and/or substantially advance the field are sought. The structure encompasses atomic and molecular arrangements, chemical and electronic structures, and microstructure. Emphasis is on either the mechanical or functional behavior of inorganic solids at all length scales down to nanostructures. The following aspects of the science and engineering of inorganic materials are of particular interest: Acta Materialia welcomes papers that employ theory and/or simulation (or numerical methods) that substantially advance our understanding of the structure and properties of inorganic materials. Such papers should demonstrate relevance to the materials community by, for example, making a comparison with experimental results (in the literature or in the present study), making testable microstructural or property predictions or elucidating an important phenomenon. Papers that focus primarily on model parameter studies, development of methodology or those employing existing software packages to obtain standard or incremental results are discouraged. Short communications and comments to papers published in Acta Materialia may be submitted to Scripta Materialia.
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When writing a statement with the two line format you must be sure to type a semicolon?When writing a statement with the two-line format, you must be sure to type a semicolon at the end of the first line in order to ensure accurate results. Although it is possible to block statements that depend on an if, you cannot likewise block statements that depend on an else.
Which of the following is the simplest statement you can use to make a decision?if statement is the most simple decision-making statement. It is used to decide whether a certain statement or block of statements will be executed or not i.e if a certain condition is true then a block of statement is executed otherwise not.
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