Wood based panels are composed of wood or other lignocellulosic material broken down into small elements and then reconstituted to form new products using different binders under pressure and heat. Production of wood composites such as particleboard and fiberboard has been constantly increasing in the U.S. for the last 25 years. Both panel products are extensively used as a raw material in the ...

Computer literacy is not negotiable for any professional in an increasingly computerised environment. Educational institutions should be equipped to provide this new basic training for modern life. Accordingly, computer labs are an essential medium for education in almost any field. Computer labs are one of the most popular IT infrastructures for technical training in primary and secondary scho...

This work aims to develop a system for predicting age progression in children’s faces from a small exemplar-image set, which is a critical task to assist in the search for missing children. The proposed method consists a facial component extraction module, a facial component distance measurement module, and a face synthesis module. It is developed based on the assumption that two similar facial...

in this paper, collapse behavior of simple and reinforced thin-walled channel- section beams, subjected to three- point bending, is investigated. many simple channel- section beams of different geometry and some reinforced ones were tested, and their strengths after collapse were obtained thoroughly. since the available theories in this area are complicated and little attention has been paid to...

In this study various yttria doped  zirconia based thin films were prepared by the aqueous tape casting method. The rheological property of the paste was studies. The phase content and microstructure of the samples was investigated by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscope, respectively. The mechanical properties of thin films were studied by Vickers microhardness and nanoindentatio...

We repeat our previous calculation about the effect of the spin-orbit-induced magnetic anisotropy on the Kondo temperature in the case of S = 5/2 impurity spin which is quite different from the integer spin case as the ground state is degenerated. In this case the Kondo contribution remains finite when the sample size goes to zero and the thickness dependence in the Kondo resistivity is much mo...