Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has been used to study the influence of Si ion implantation on the passive layer of AISI 304 stainless steel, as well as on its high-temperature oxidation behaviour. Ion implantation is a usual technique to improve the corrosion and oxidation resistance of steels. To study the effects of ion implantation on the room temperature corrosion behavior of AISI...

Bone tissue engineering is an emerging interdisciplinary field in Science, combining expertise in medicine, material science and biomechanics. Hard tissue engineering research is focused mainly in two areas, osteo and dental clinical applications. There is a lot of exciting research being performed worldwide in developing novel scaffolds for tissue engineering. Although, nowadays the majority o...

Graduates of computer science programs often lack skills that employers desire among software developers. These include, for example, weaknesses in the areas of collaboration, communication, and software testing. Further research can help to refine this list by providing insight into additional skills that are of rising or regional importance. This paper therefore presents a study aimed at unco...

The study of mammalian soft tissue decomposition is an emerging area in forensic science, with a major focus of the research being the use of various chemical and biological methods to study the fate of human remains in the environment. Decomposition of mammalian soft tissue is a postmortem process that, depending on environmental conditions and physiological factors, will proceed until complet...

Prof. J. A. Rogers Department of Materials Science and Engineering Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana , IL 61801 , USA E-mail: [email protected] Dr. L. Yin, Dr. X. Huang Department of Materials Science and Engineering Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and...

Hard, soft and just right: variations in linked selection and 1 recombination drive genomic divergence during speciation of aspens 2 3 Jing Wang, Nathaniel R. Street, Douglas G. Scofield, Pär K. Ingvarsson 4 5 1 Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-90187, 6 Umeå, Sweden 7 2 Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, SE8 90187, Ume...

1 School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, 1-6-1, Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan 2 NEC Soft, Ltd., 1-18-7, Shinkiba, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-8627, Japan 3 Sciencehouse, Inc., 1-4-17, Higashi-Tabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-0013, Japan 4 Department of Science of Biological Supramolecular Systems, Graduate School of Integrated Science, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29, Suehiro-cho, T...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce and study new classes of soft closed sets like soft regular generalized b-closed sets in soft topological spaces (briefly soft rgb-closed set) Moreover, soft rg-closed, soft gpr-closed, soft gb-closed, soft gsp-closed, soft g$alpha$-closed, soft g$alpha$b-closed, and soft sgb-closed sets in soft topological spaces are introduced in this paper and w...

Soft Computing refers to the science of reasoning, thinking and deduction that recognizes and uses the real world phenomena of grouping, memberships, and classification of various quantities under study. As such, it is an extension of natural heuristics and capable of dealing with complex systems because it does not require strict mathematical definitions and distinctions for the system compone...