To understand the effects of lattice mismatch on heteroepitaxial growth, we have studied equilibrium structure and orientation relationships (ORs) FCC films grown epitaxially substrates, using molecular dynamics simulations in conjunction with embedded atom method potentials. Three film/substrate systems been investigated, namely: Ag Cu, Ni Pb Al. These cover a significant range mismatch, from ...

INTRODUCTION Healthcare quality is usually evaluated through analysing medical outcomes including neonatal readmission and patient and family satisfaction. Parental involvement in neonatal care is considered as one of the most important factors, which directly affects these outcomes. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of family-centered care including maternal participatio...

BACKGROUND Family-Centred Care (FCC) is recognized as an important component of all paediatric care, including neonatal care, although practical clinical guidelines to support this care model are still needed in Italy. The characteristics and services for families in Italian NICUs show a lack of organization and participation. METHODS The first aim was to compare satisfaction and stress level...

A Monte Carlo simulation study is made of the phase diagram of the restricted primitive model and of the solid± liquid and solid± solid phase coexistence curves in particular. At low temperatures, there is liquid± bcc coexistence and with increasing density there is bcc± fcc coexistence. These coexistence curves end in a triple point (liquid± bcc ± fcc) above which only liquid± fcc coexistence ...

We report results of total energy and electronic structure calculations of fcc and bcc silver bulk and surfaces. We find that under normal conditions (positive pressure) bcc silver is not stable. However, if silver is grown with a volume per atom & 10% larger than that of the well-known fcc silver, the total energy of the bcc structure becomes below that of fcc silver. For bcc (110) a surface s...

We study the lattice Green’s functions of the face-centered cubic lattice (fcc) in up to six dimensions. We give computer algebra proofs of results that were conjectured by Guttmann and Broadhurst for the fourand fivedimensional fcc lattices. Additionally we derive a differential equation for the lattice Green’s function of the six-dimensional fcc lattice, a result that was not believed to be a...

Plastic deformation behavior of Cu/Ni/W metallic multilayers with individual layer thickness ranging from 5 nm to 300 nm is investigated by nanoindentation testing. The experimental results reveal that the composite still exhibits indentation-induced plastic deformation instability and the loss of strain hardening ability at the nanometer scale even if the composite contains two kinds of layer ...

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the main conversion process used in oil refineries. An X-ray microscopy method is used to show that metal poisoning and related structural changes in the zeolite active material lead to a non-uniform core–shell deactivation of FCC catalyst particles. The study links the detrimental effect of V and Ni poisoning with zeolite destruction and dealumination in a spa...