To preoperatively assess the functional outcome of a total joint replacement, finite element analysis can be used for an objective evaluation of individual implant configurations. For large scale studies, where the implant configuration is varied in size, position or design, numerous finite element meshes have to be generated. To improve the planning process we propose a method that outputs a m...

We present a theoretical analysis of the optical matrix element between the electron and hole ground states in InAs/GaAs quantum dots QDs modeled with a truncated pyramidal shape. We use an eight-band k·p Hamiltonian to calculate the QD electronic structure, including strain and piezoelectric effects. The ground state optical matrix element is very sensitive to variations in both the QD size an...

this guide to the identification of iranian freshwater snails has been prepared with aim of helping individuals involved in field work, but who have had no specialized training in taxonomy to differentiate snail specimens which they collect to certain groups by means of simple identification key. the guide pays special attention to the principal snail groups which transmit human schistosomiasis...

background and aims: infectious bursal disease (ibd) is an acute contagious viral disease of birds worldwide. the causative virus induces a persistent immune suppression following destroy b lymphocytes precursors in bursal lymphoid follicles. vaccination is the main strategy for prevention of the disease in commercial poultry industry. materials and methods: to produce a live vaccine against th...

We show that the heat transport between two bodies, mediated by electromagnetic fluctuations, can be controlled with an intermediate quantum circuit--leading to the device concept of a mesoscopic photon heat transistor (MPHT). Our theoretical analysis is based on a novel Meir-Wingreen-Landauer-type of conductance formula, which gives the photonic heat current through an arbitrary circuit elemen...

In this paper, we extend the results of Inprasit and Wattanataweekul [7] to the class of asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive nonself-mappings in the intermediate sense. We prove some strong convergence theorems for asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive nonself-mappings in the intermediate sense using a three-step iterative method for finding a common element of the set of solutions of a generalized m...

In several digital signal processing algorithms, intermediate results between computational stages are reordered according to stride permutations. If such algorithms are computed in parallel with reduced number of processing elements where one element computes several computational nodes, the permutation, instead of being hardwired, requires a storage of intermediate data elements. In this pape...

We introduce a new iterative scheme by modifying Mann’s iteration method to find a common element for the set of common fixed points of an infinite family of asymptotically strictly pseudocontractive mappings in the intermediate sense, the set of solutions of the cocoercive quasivariational inclusions problems, and the set of solutions of the mixed equilibrium problems in Hilbert spaces. The st...