Abstract: The effect of phase development on peel strength of alumina-copper metalized joint has been investigated. The alumina-copper joint was prepared in three stages. The alumina substrate was, first, metalized at 1500°C in H2-furnace by a new formulation. In the second step, a nickel layer was electroplated on the metalized layer with approximately 10µm thickness. Finally, copper strip...

We used the modified one finger laparoscopy technique on 100 patients and found it to be successful in 87% of cases. No major complication occurred during or after such operations. However, we think that this technique is accompanied by three important problems: 1) The CO2 gas is lost f1"om the subumbilical incision, 2) A secondary fascial layer is present in some patients, and 3) There i...

The Sparse Bayesian Extreme Learning Machine (SBELM) has been recently proposed to reduce the number of units activated on the hidden layer. To deal with high-dimensional data, a novel sparse Bayesian Double-Layer ELM (DL-ELM) is proposed in this paper. The first layer of the proposed DLELM is based on a set of SBELM subnetworks which are separately applied to the features on the input layer. T...

1293, 2001; [5] Jun I., JPL, pers. comm., 2002; [6] Hahn et al., IEEE Trans. Nuc. Sci., submitted, 2002; [7] Waters, MCNPX Users Manual, LA-UR 02-2607, 2002. Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the NS, rover, and Martian surface model used for this study. Figure 2. Epithermal neutrons (counts per second) versus H2O content for the bottom dry layer. Black and left scale are for the RTG case; red and ...

The use of operable shading devices impacts building loads significantly. The need exists for an explicit treatment of window shading devices in the design of energy efficient buildings through simulation. A general framework for modeling complex fenestration systems has recently been implemented in ESP-r. The underlying models have been developed with emphasis on computational efficiency and s...

The surface height fluctuations of a layer of low molecular weight (2.2k) untethered perdeuterated polystyrene (dPS) chains adjacent to a densely grafted polystyrene brush are slowed dramatically. Due to the interpenetration of the brush with the layer of "untethered chains" a hydrodynamic continuum theory can only describe the fluctuations when the effective thickness of the film is taken to b...

Recently, we have proposed an unsupervised filterbank learning model based on Convolutional RBM (ConvRBM). This model is able to learn auditory-like subband filters using speech signals as an input. In this paper, we propose two-layer Unsupervised Deep Auditory Model (UDAM) by stacking two ConvRBMs. The first layer ConvRBM learns filterbank from speech signals and hence, it represents early aud...

The postnatal development and lifespan alterations in basal dendrites of large layer IIIC and layer V pyramidal neurons were quantitatively studied. Both classes of neurons were characterized by rapid dendritic growth during the first postnatal months. At birth, layer V pyramidal neurons had larger and more complex dendritic trees than those of layer IIIC; however, at 1 postnatal month both cla...

We make a comparison of the mesopelagic sound scattering layers (SLs) in two contrasting optical environments; the clear Red Sea and in murkier coastal waters of Norway (Masfjorden). The depth distributions of the SL in Masfjorden are shallower and narrower than those of the Red Sea. This difference in depth distribution is consistent with the hypothesis that the organisms of the SL distribute ...