Surface finish is one of the prime requirements of customers for machined parts. The present paper presents an experimental study to investigate the effects of cutting parameters like spindle speed, feed and depth of cut on surface finish and material removal rate on EN-8. Taguchi methodology has been applied to optimize cutting parameters. The results showed that the spindle speed (the most si...

Fred Halliday saw revolution and war as the dual motors of modern international order. However, while war occupies a prominent place in International Relations (IR), revolutions inhabit a more residual location. For Halliday, this is out of keeping with their impact – in particular, revolutions offer a systemic challenge to existing patterns of international order in their capacity to generate ...

BACKGROUND During traditional acupuncture therapy, soft tissues attach to and wind around the acupuncture needle. To study this phenomenon in a controlled and quantitative setting, we performed acupuncture needling in vitro. METHODS Acupuncture was simulated in vitro in three-dimensional, type I collagen gels prepared at 1.5 mg/ml, 2.0 mg/ml, and 2.5 mg/ml collagen, and either crosslinked wit...

This paper wants to motivate the distributed algorithms community to study sensor networks. We discuss why sensor networks are distributed algorithms, and why they are not.