This study investigates the effect of surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT) (a severe surface-deformation process) on microstructure and tribological behavior AISI 316L steel samples manufactured using selective laser melting (SLM) technique. The specimens are built in different directions (0°, 45°, 90°). annealed SLM shows non-uniform distribution random orientation grains. It contains...

BACKGROUND A reagentless sensor array for simultaneous multianalyte testing (SMAT) may enable accurate diagnosis and be applicable for point-of-care testing. We developed a disposable reagentless immunosensor array for simple immunoassay of panels of tumor markers. METHODS We carried out SMAT with a direct capture format, in which colloidal gold nanoparticles with bound horseradish peroxidase...

BACKGROUND A majority of community-dwelling older adults manage their own medication regimens. This study describes the development and first phase of testing of the Self-Medication Assessment Tool (SMAT), designed to screen for cognitive and functional deficits in relation to medication self-management among community-dwelling geriatric patients. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the face validity of th...

ObjectiveThis study aims to develop and test the Self-Management instrument for breast cancer patients undergoing Adjuvant Therapy (SMAT-B).MethodsAfter a qualitative interview with 29 two rounds of Delphi expert consultation 15 experts, 49 items were initially generated. Before item reduction, another structured was conducted content validity. Item analysis exploratory factor (n=377) used redu...

TFIID plays a role in nucleating RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex assembly on protein-coding genes. TFIID is a multisubunit complex comprised of the TATA box binding protein (TBP) and 14 TBP-associated factors (TAFs). Another class of multiprotein transcriptional regulatory complexes having histone acetyl transferase (HAT) activity, and containing TAFs, includes TFTC, STAGA and the PCAF/...

In Ethernet-based access networks, network security plays a more significant role than in ATM-based access environments. We assume that in the foreseeable future Internet access can be established without using the conventional Point-to-Point protocol. Various scenarios already envisage straightforward delivery of selected IP services over Ethernet, e.g., forwarding of multicast services in Eth...

• We present a spline-based medial axis transform representation of binary images. Our method achieves very high compression ratios while keeping quality high. has better performance than regular representation. show how our enables generating super-resolution allows shape manipulation and captures multiscale skeletons. Medial axes are well-known descriptors used for representing, manipulating,...