Block copolymer micelles have been prepared with a dithiomaleimide (DTM) fluorophore located in either the core or shell. Poly(triethylene glycol acrylate)-b-poly(tert-butyl acrylate) (P(TEGA)-b-P(tBA)) was synthesized by RAFT polymerization, with a DTM-functional acrylate monomer copolymerized into either the core forming P(tBA) block or the shell forming P(TEGA) block. Self-assembly by direct...

Smallholder tree plantations are expanding in the steepland tropics due to demand for timber and interest in ecosystem services, such as carbon storage. Financial mechanisms are developing to compensate vegetation carbon stores. However, measuring biomass—necessary for accessing carbon funds—at small scales is costly and time-intensive. Therefore, we test whether low-cost drones can accurately ...

The paper discusses the use of fast circuit-switching in future highcapacity networks. We believe that the capacity and the size of the public network will increase to an extent where it is infeasible to rely on bandwidth optimization and dynamic congestion control mechanisms [8]. Dynamic synchronous Transfer Mode (DTM) is a new protocol suite based on synchronous fast circuit switching. It is ...

The approach of using an airborne laser scanning for DTM generation has made great progress recently. However, it is not always clear the reliability and the quality of the geometry that characterise the generated DTM. Thus, a special test was conducted to assess the quality and the reliability of the generated DTM via an airborne laser scanning system. To perform this test, an airborne laser s...

Digital terrain model (DTM) is one of the important input parameters in urban flood application. This is because it influences the flow direction, flow velocity, flood extend and flood depth. LiDAR offers accurate DTM for large areas within a short period of time. From the overall LiDAR data processes, filtering (classification) poses the greatest challenge. Evaluation and comparison of current...

In this paper, axisymmetric free vibration analysis of a circular Nano-plate having variable thickness was studied. The variation in thickness of plate was considered as a linearly in radial direction. Nonlocal elasticity theory was utilized to take into account size-dependent effects. Ritz functions was utilized to obtain the frequency equations for simply supported and clamped boundary. To ve...

The aim of this study was to clarify the nerve distribution of the masseter, temporalis, and zygomaticomandibularis (ZM) muscles to elucidate the phylogenetic traits of canine mastication. A detailed dissection was made of 15 hemisectioned heads of adult beagle dogs. The innervations of the masticatory nerve twigs exhibited a characteristic pattern and were classified into seven groups. Twig in...

This paper proposes an automatic system which detects buildings in urban and rural areas by the use of first pulse return and last pulse return LIDAR data. Initially both first and last pulse return points are interpolated to raster images. This results to two Digital Surface Models (i.e. DSM) and a differential DSM (i.e. DDSM) is computed by them. Then using a height criterion, rough and smoot...

For some linear mechanical systems, which can be written as a dyadic transfer function matrix (DTM), MIMO controller design can be reduced to a number of SISO designs. Internal stability of the SISO designs guarantees stability of the resulting MIMO controller. By relating the insights from modal analysis to system theory, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for linear mechanical sy...