Evaluation and prediction of performance of diamond wire saw is one of the most important factors involved in planning the dimension stone quarries. The wear rate of diamond wire saw can be investigated as a major criterion to evaluate its performance. The wear rate of diamond wire saw depends upon non-controlled parameters related to rock characteristics and controlled parameters related to ch...

diamond like carbon (dlc) film was grown by hot filament chemical vapor deposition (hfcvd)technique. in the present work, we investigated the quality of the dlc films groew on the substratesthat were coated with various metal nanocatalysts (au and ni). a combination of ch4/ar/h2 rendersthe growth of carbon nanostructures technique (diamond like carbon). the utilized samples werecharacterized by...

Human mesenchymal stem cells were cultured using poly（dimethylsiloxane）substrates with regularly arrayed wrinkle microstructures formed by partially depositing diamond-like carbon thin films. The optimal design pattern for development of more interconnections within a shorter period was found to be square-shaped areas 50 μm size arranged at the intervals - 100 in grid-like pattern.

BACKGROUND Although stents have great success of treating cardiovascular disease, it actually undermined by the in-stent restenosis and their long-term fatigue failure. The geometry of stent affects its service performance and ultimately affects its fatigue life. Besides, improper length of balloon leads to transient mechanical injury to the vessel wall and in-stent restenosis. Conventional opt...

A general framework is presented for recursive computation of image local statistics in sliding window of almost arbitrary shape with “per-pixel” computational complexity substantially lower than the window size. As special cases, recursive algorithms are described for computing image local statistics such as local mean, local variance, local kurtosis, local order statistics (minimum, maximum, ...

The indentation process of pressing a Rockwell diamond indenter into inelastic material has been studied to provide a means for the analysis, simulation and prediction of Rockwell hardness tests. The geometrical characteristics of the spheroconical-shaped Rockwell indenter are discussed and fit to a general function in a self-similar way. The complicated moving boundary problem in Rockwell hard...

A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Hydrothelphusa A Milne-Edwards, 1872, is described based on specimens collected from a forested region of southeastern Madagascar. Hydrothelphusa vencesi n. sp. is clearly distinguished from its congeners by its distinctive first gonopod (G1) with a terminal article that is in the form of a long straight-sided cone, and by a dorsal membrane at the s...

Tan spot caused by the fungus Pyrenophora triticirepentis is a serious disease of wheat, which is on increase in recent years in Mediterranean region. In the field this fungus produces a diamond-shaped necrotic lesions with a yellow halo on wheat foliage. The objective of this study was to characterize and compare several monospore isolates of P. tritici-repentis collected from different infect...