40 is a near branch, an analogous argument again shows that Pin(b) is q's lower-right quadrant. Thus, q is the closest connection between p, Pin(a) and Pin(b). Except for redundancies and pruning of sub-optimal trees, BB-SORT-C searches over all possible ways to construct a Steiner tree sequentially, such that each sink is added by a closest connection to some edge in the current tree. Thus, we...

The performance of a series of novel room temperature ionic liquids (ILs) based on the trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphoniumcation (P66614) and a number of novel anions have been studied in pin-on-disk tests using a 100Cr6 steel ball on AA2024 aluminium disks. The anions coupled to the (P66614) cation include diphenyl phosphate (DPP-), dibutyl phosphate (DBP-), bis (2,4,4-trimethyl pentyl) phosphinat...

Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and starch copolymers are obtained by reactive blending varying the starch compositions from 0 to 60%. PLA is functionalized with maleic anhydride (MA), obtaining PLA-g-MA copolymers using dicumyl peroxide as an initiator of grafting in order to improve the compatibility and interfacial adhesion between the constituents. PLAþ starch blends without a compatibilizer do not...

Reduced size microstrip antennas with different slot and patch shapes are investigated .The ground plane size is 20 X 20 mm and substrate thickness taken to be is 1.6mm which is about the size of atypical wireless card. Detailed simulation and experimental investigations are conducted to understand their behavior and optimize for miniaturized operation. It is shown that the shorting pin makes t...

We show that friction anisotropy is an intrinsic property of the atomic structure of Al–Ni–Co decagonal quasicrystals and not only of clean and well-ordered surfaces that can be prepared in vacuum [ J.Y. Park et al., Science 309,1354 (2005)]. Friction anisotropy is manifested in both nanometer-size contacts obtained with sharp atomic force microscope tips and macroscopic contacts produced in pi...

recent studies demonstrate that aluminide coatings are beneficial to wear and erosion resistance and also that oxygen-active elements such as yttrium can remarkably improve this resistance. in this research, the micro-hardness of the aluminide coatings with and without yttrium on 1045 steel was investigated using a micro-mechanical probe. wear of the samples was measured using a pin-on-disk tri...

in the present work, structural characteristics and tribological properties of the ti-al-cr-(si)-c-n nanocomposite films coated on the spk 1.2080 tool steel bypvd technique have been investigated. the pvd coating process was carried out using ti (si) al and cral cathodes at 150 a current, 40 v bias and (ar)0.1(ch4)0.45(n2)0.45 gas mixture for 50 min. evaluations were conducted by om, fesem, afm...

This study was undertaken to demonstrate capabilities of the pin-by-pin model used by the BARS code and to understand various effects of intra-assembly pin-by-pin representation of fuel power, bumup and temperature in calculational analysis of light water reactor rod ejection accidents (LWR REAs). Effects of pin-by-pin fuel power and bumup representation were investigated on the basis of calcul...

Because of high demand that applications and new technologies have today for data storage capacity, more disk drives are needed, resulting in increased probability to inaccessible sectors, referred as Latent Sector Errors (LSE). Aiming to reduce data loss by LSE, two main techniques are extensively studied lately: Disk Scrubbing, which performs reading operations during idle periods on systems ...

INTRODUCTION Over-expression of penile neuronal nitric oxide synthase (PnNOS) from a plasmid ameliorates aging-related erectile dysfunction (ED), whereas over-expression of the protein inhibitor of NOS (PIN), that binds to nNOS, increases ED. AIM To improve this form of gene therapy for ED by comparing the electrical field response of short hairpin RNA (shRNA) for PIN with that of antisense P...