The ability of hardness discrimination in 11 implant denture wearers was compared with those in 10 bridge wearers and 11 normal dentate subjects. The hardness discrimination was tested using silicone rubber blocks having rubber hardness that ranged at intervals of 10 degrees from 30 degrees to 70 degrees. Using a rubber block with rubber hardness of 50 degrees as a standard, the ability of disc...

Abstract: mechanical properties of AISIH 13 hot-work tool steel have been studied. Cast samples made of the modified new steel were homogenized and austenitized at different conditions, followed by tempering at the specified temperature ranges. Hardness, red hardness, three point bending test and Charpy impact test were carried out to evaluate the mechanical properties together with characteriz...

pistachio nut is one of the most important export crops in iran. for prevention of rancidity and to ensure good quality, pistachio must be harvested in a short time and be prepared for drying in 24h.the ohadi variety of iranian raw dry pistachio nuts was selected for the experiments. instrumental hardness and sensory characteristics of pistachio nuts such as: flavor , texture and total acceptan...

We evaluate Vickers hardness and true instrumented indentation test (IIT) hardness of 24 metals over a wide range of mechanical properties using just IIT parameters by taking into account the real contact morphology beneath the Vickers indenter. Correlating the conventional Vickers hardness, indentation contact morphology, and IIT parameters for the 24 metals reveals relationships between conta...

An approximated hardness kernel, which includes the second derivative with respect to the density of the kinetic energy, the electron-electron coulomb repulsion, and the exchange density functionals, has been tested for the calculation of the global hardness. The results obtained for a series of 40 cations and neutral systems and 16 anions represent in most cases an improvement of the results o...

The main efficiency metrics for a cryptographic primitive are its speed, its code size and its memory complexity. For a variety of reasons, many algorithms have been proposed that, instead of optimizing, try to increase one of these hardness forms. We present for the first time a unified framework for describing the hardness of a primitive along any of these three axes: code-hardness, timehardn...

INTRODUCTION The hardness of denture base materials may undergo changes due to continued polymerization reaction and water uptake. However, the extent to which these processes affect the hardness of materials is still unclear. OBJECTIVE In this study, the degree of conversion of two hard chair-side reline resins (Duraliner II-D and Kooliner-K) and one heat-cured acrylic resin (Lucitone 550-L)...

Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) was applied to the analysis of bioceramic samples. The relationship between sample hardness and LIBS plasma properties was investigated, with comparison to conventional Vickers hardness measurements. The plasma excitation temperature Te was determined using the lineto-continuum ratio for the Si (I) 288.16 nm emission line; we have demonstrated a linea...

A decision problem or a language L is one where all strings x are partitioned into those that are good inputs and the bad ones. In general, we are really interested in optimization problems, where for a problem A we consider all potential solutions w, and every input x determines a subset of all possible solutions that are good for x. Furthermore, every input x imposes a ranking among all good ...

When lu Wenfu, a contemporary writer, began to write novels in the 1950s, he set his foot suzhou, an ancient and deep modern city. His focus on characters suzhou’s alleys, winding quiet with most ordinary people as protagonist, so is called “Lu Suzhou”. “Wunong Soft language” one of Wenfu’s ways expressing regional culture Suzhou, soft just symbol suzhou people’s elegance gentleness. The wu dia...