We reviewed medical records from select wildlife rehabilitation facilities in California to determine the prevalence of injury in California Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis), gulls (Larus spp.), and pinniped species (Zalophus californianus, Mirounga angustirostris, and Phoca vitulina) due to fishing gear entanglement and ingestion from 2001 to 2006. Of 9,668 Brown Pelican, gull, and pinn...

Gears are an integral and necessary component in our everyday lives. Most of the work performed in plastic and metal but very few works available in combine effect of plastic and metal gears. The main problem while referring plastic gear is the bending strength and in case of metal gear is cost. Hence, the work is performed on metal plastic composite gear to get benefit of both. Here use the co...

To date, elliptical gear has been commonly used in automobile, automatic machinery, pumps, flow meters and printing presses for its particular non-uniform rotation. However, the dynamic characteristics of elliptical gears have not been clarified yet. In this study, The calculation as well as the experiment of two elliptical gears, which are a single elliptical gear and a double elliptical gear,...

Spur gear wears either due to rubbing action between the meshed gears or by the occurrence of unwanted elements like dust particles, metal fragments, etc. which reduces its efficiency and service life. It is always a challenging task to determine the remaining life of a component or the strength of a component once wear has occurred on teeth surface. This paper presents an application of revers...

Simulation and the resulting prediction of the dynamic behavior of an aircraft and its landing gear system during ground maneuvers is an essential part in the design process. A realistic estimation of unwanted oscillations, such as gear walk and shimmy, for the landing gear and whole aircraft can be readily obtained with an MBS-model. It is then possible to adjust the model for changes in the s...

A molecular motor is introduced which is composed of charges only and which does not contain any potential or interaction besides the Coulomb one. The motor is shown to transform efficiently a driven random rotation into a directed translational motion. The direction of translational motion can be chosen dynamically, so that a "forward gear," a "reverse gear," and even a "neutral gear" exist. T...

Abstract The operation of high-speed tracked vehicles takes place in difficult terrain conditions. Hence, to obtain a high operational reliability, the design or modernisation process must be precise and should consider even slightest details. article presents issues related problem formulating vehicle models using partial flexible elements used mechanisms. Changes occurring shape properties su...

The surface tooth wear which occurs at the gear contact region due to inadequate contact strength of the tooth is one of the predominant modes of gear failures. Currently, higher contact ratio spur gears are increasingly used in power transmission applications such as aircraft, wind turbine, automobiles and compact tracked vehicles due to their high load carrying capacity.  In this work, the di...

UNLABELLED We developed an algorithm named GEAR (genomic enrichment analysis of regional DNA copy number changes) for functional interpretation of genome-wide DNA copy number changes identified by array-based comparative genomic hybridization. GEAR selects two types of chromosomal alterations with potential biological relevance, i.e. recurrent and phenotype-specific alterations. Then it perform...

This paper is a survey of the literature on gear noise and vibration. It is divided into three parts, “Transmission error”, “Dynamic models” and “Noise and vibration measurement”. Transmission error (TE) is considered to be an important excitation mechanism for gear noise and vibration. The definition of transmission error is “The difference between the actual position of the output gear and th...