Advisor: Bai Cui Molybdenum aluminum boride (MoAlB) is a ternary transition metal boride which has promising aeronautic and nuclear applications. It inheres excellent properties of the binary transitional metal borides (e.g., MoB, ZrB2) such as high melting temperature, high hardness, and thermal conductivity. Besides, MoAlB is superior to MoB because: (1) the Al element provides an oxidation r...

Many of the threats (security, energy, bandwidth and routing problems) facing mobile networks. All these threats are related to high mobility nodes. It is here that our work gives great importance to mobility. This work consists of two parts: The first part is to propose a new way to measure the mobility of nodes, one way is based on two principles: the number of nodes incoming and outgoing fro...

Aluminium alloy composites have been extensively investigated for use in tribo-contact applications, however little detailed literature exists on the sub-surface microstructural evolution as a result of lubricated sliding wear. In this study two un-reinforced alloys (2124 & 5056) and identical alloy composites, reinforced with 15vol.% MoSi2 intermetallic particles were produced by a powder meta...

Like many other intermetallic materials, MoSi2 coatings are typically hard, but prone to catastrophic failure due to their low toughness at ambient temperature. In this paper, a self-assembled hierarchical structure that closely resembles that of nacre (i.e., mother of pearl) was developed in a MoSi2-based coating through a simple, yet cost-effective, depostion technique. The newly formed coati...

Mob-banking technology is still evolving across all the world, but its spread has been uneven. We prefer to focus on factors that influence actual practice and future use intention. Through uneven mechanical phenomena of mob-payments, India offers us with a suitable arena for analyzing citizens' usage behavior. try comprehend adoption backed UTAUT-2 models in accessibility, transactional conven...

Nitrous oxide production from N-impacted soils is highly influenced by rates of inorganic nitrogen metabolized by the soil microbial community. The processes of nitrification and denitrification convert soil nitrite into nitrous oxide either directly or via nitrate. Although methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) are predominantly involved in converting methane to carbon dioxide, their evolutionary l...

An approach originally designed to identify functional origins of conjugative transfer (oriT or mob) in a bacterial genome (J. A. Herrera-Cervera, J. M. Sanjuán-Pinilla, J. Olivares, and J. Sanjuán, J. Bacteriol. 180:4583-4590, 1998) was modified to improve its reliability and prevent selection of undesired false mob clones. By following this modified approach, we were able to identify two func...

The main olfactory bulb (MOB) receives a dense projection from the pontine nucleus locus coeruleus (LC), the largest collection of norepinephrine (NE)-containing cells in the brain. LC is the sole source of NE innervation of MOB. Previous studies of the actions of exogenously applied NE on mitral cells, the principal output neurons of MOB, are contradictory. The effect of synaptically released ...