Additive manufacturing, such as fused deposition modeling (FDM), has been increasingly employed to produce microfluidic platforms due to ease of use, wide distribution of affordable 3D printers and relatively inexpensive materials for printing. In this work, we discuss fabrication and testing of an FDM-printed fully automated colorimetric enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) designed to de...

The authors focus on the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printer because the FDM 3D printer can print the utility resin material. It can print with low cost and therefore it is the most suitable for home 3D printer. The FDM 3D printer has the problem that it produces layer grooves on the surface of the 3D printed structure. Therefore the authors developed the 3D-Chemical Melting Finishing (3...

The objective was to establish and evaluate a method for manufacture of custom trays for edentulous jaws using computer aided design and fused deposition modeling (FDM) technologies. A digital method for design the custom trays for edentulous jaws was established. The tissue surface data of ten standard mandibular edentulous plaster models, which was used to design the digital custom tray in a ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although existing studies suggest that factors affecting families' decisions regarding pediatric organ donation mirror those for adult patients, health professionals working in this area maintain that pediatric and adult decision-makers differ in significant ways. This study compared the request process, experiences, and authorization decisions between family decision-...

Myopia is the most common childhood refractive disorder. Atropine inhibits myopia progression, but its mechanism is unknown. Here, we show that myopia-prevention by atropine requires production of nitric oxide (NO). Form-deprivation myopia (FDM) was induced in week-old chicks by diffusers over the right eye (OD); the left eye (OS) remained ungoggled. On post-goggling days 1, 3, and 5, OD receiv...

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with frequency domain equalization (FDE) requires reliable channel estimation (CE). In practice, pilot assisted CE can be either based on timeor frequency-domain multiplexed pilot symbols (i.e. TDM-pilot and FDM-pilot). It this paper, the impact of quantization noise introduced by digital-to-analog (DA) and analog-to-digital (AD) converte...

This paper presents an approach that integrates a legacy component into a software system for storm sewer simulation. The legacy component employed here is the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). The Extended Transport (EXTRAN) block of the SWMM that applies the finite difference method (FDM) with explicit numerical schemes, solving the de Saint-Venant equations, is used to route the storm sew...

The relational data model uses set theory to provide a formal background, thus ensuring a rigorous mathematical data model with support for manipulation. The newer generation database models are based on the object{oriented programming paradigm, and so fall short of having a formal background, especially in some of the more complex data manipulation areas. We use category theory to provide a fo...

Spectrally Efficient FDM (SEFDM) systems employ non-orthogonal overlapped carriers to improve spectral efficiency for future communication systems. One of the challenges for SEFDM systems is to demonstrate efficient hardware implementations for transmitters and receivers. This paper presents the first VLSI digital baseband transmitter architecture for SEFDM. The transmitter is reconfigurable be...

A 3D-printed microfluidic device was designed and manufactured using a low cost ($2000) consumer grade fusion deposition modelling (FDM) 3D printer. FDM printers are not typically used, or are capable, of producing the fine detailed structures required for microfluidic fabrication. However, in this work, the optical transparency of the device was improved through manufacture optimisation to suc...