In a recent work, Mossel and Ross considered the shotgun assembly problem for a random jigsaw puzzle. Their model consists of a puzzle an n×n grid, where each vertex is viewed as a center of a piece. They assume that each of the four edges adjacent to a vertex, is assigned one of q colors (corresponding to ”jigs”, or cut shapes) uniformly at random. Mossel and Ross asked: how large should q = q...

An investigation of the friction and sliding wear of gray cast iron against chromium plated cast irons was carried out on a newly constructed reciprocating friction and wear tester. The tests were the first to be done on the test rig under dry conditions and at the speed of 170 cm/min, and variable loads of 20-260 N for a duration of 15 min. to 3 hours. The gray cast iron surfaces worn by a pro...

BACKGROUND Assessment of 'potential intellectual ability' of children with severe intellectual disability (ID) is limited, as current tests designed for normal children do not maintain their interest. Thus a manual puzzle version of the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM) was devised to appeal to the attentional and sensory preferences and language limitations of children with ID. It w...

As cast iron with 10-15% of graphite, Ferro Casting Ductile (FCD) Iron material has better mechanical properties than the ones from Grey Cast Iron. Moreover, it is also close to Carbon Steel’s properties. Regarding this condition, FCD potential be used as a shear key, specifically, joint precast segmental concrete bridges. The objective paper study behavior applied key on wet using epoxy. To do...

Client puzzles are moderately-hard cryptographic problems — neither easy nor impossible to solve — that can be used as a countermeasure against denial of service attacks on network protocols. Puzzles based on modular exponentiation are attractive as they provide important properties such as non-parallelisability, deterministic solving time, and linear granularity. We propose an efficient client...