In this paper we focus on the water flow around a vertical hydrofoil used to generate power in micro-hydropower-units, based on the flutter phenomenon, which leads to pitching and sway oscillations of the foil. 2D computations are performed in COMSOL Multiphysics, in unsteady turbulent flow, for one-way pitch motion of the foil, with pitch angle varying over 50 degrees. This assumption precedes...

Gold foil is the most underused restorative material in dentistry, and contrary to popular belief, it is still being used in many dental practices. As demonstrated, it can be used more easily than years ago and give the patient a restoration that may last a lifetime. Reasons for not using it have been addressed, and a simplified method of restoration has been explained in detail. It is the hope...

FOIL is an Inductive Logic Programming Algorithm to discover first order rules to explain the patterns involved in a domain of knowledge. Domains as Information Retrieval or Information Extraction are handicaps for FOIL due to the huge amount of information it needs manage to devise the rules. Current solutions to problems in these domains are restricted to devising ad hoc domain dependent indu...

We present a high-throughput roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing process for foil-based polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) chips of excellent optical quality. These disposable, R2R hot embossed microfluidic chips are used for the identification of the antibiotic resistance gene mecA in Staphylococcus epidermidis. R2R hot embossing is an emerging manufacturing technology for polymer microfluidic device...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a method for the direct measurement of electron beam width and distribution at the scattering foil on the carrousel in a medical linear accelerator gantry head, which differs from an existing indirect method for measuring the focal spot size using a camera or metallic slit located outside the gantry head. Methods: The electron beam emitted by the li...

We evaluate the rst order learning system FOIL on a series of text categorization problems. It is shown that FOIL usually forms classiiers with lower error rates and higher rates of precision and recall with a relational encoding than with a propositional encoding. We show that FOIL's performance can be improved by relation selection, a rst order analog of feature selection. Relation selection ...

Self-propagating exothermic formation reactions have been intensively studied in a variety of reactive multilayer foils, such as Ni/Al, Ni/Si, and Nb/Si foils. These foils contain numerous alternating nanoscale layers of elements with large negative heats of mixing. With a small thermal pulse, atoms diffuse normal to the layering and result in a rapid exothermic reaction. The heat produced is c...

We have produced thick-foil and fine-pitch gas electron multipliers (GEMs) using a laser etching technique. To improve production yield we have employed a new material, Liquid Crystal Polymer, instead of polyimide as an insulator layer. The effective gain of the thick-foil GEM with a hole pitch of 140 μm, a hole diameter of 70 μm, and a thickness of 100 μm reached a value of 10 at an applied vo...