The application of a commercially available spatial light modulator (SLM) to control the spatial intensity distribution of a nanosecond pulsed laser for micromachining is described for the first time. Heat sinking is introduced to increase the average power handling capabilities of the SLM beyond recommended limits by the manufacturer. Complex intensity patterns are generated, using the Inverse...

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. Despite great efforts over many years, today cancer treatment is not very effective. The main reasons for cancer chemotherapy failure are high cytotoxicity, low response rates in solid tumors, and development of resistance. Different experimental studies have shown that drug combination using low toxicity natural compounds such as polypheno...

We present revised Wall Street Journal (WSJ) lattice rescoring experiments using the structured language model (SLM). 1 Experiments We repeated the WSJ lattice rescoring experiments reported in 1] in a standard setup. We chose to work on the DARPA'93 evaluation HUB1 test set | 213 utterances, 3446 words. The 20kwds open vocabulary and baseline 3-gram model are the standard ones provided by NIST...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of four different factors: building orientation, heat treatment (solution annealing and aging), thermal history and process parameters on the mechanical properties and microstructural features of 17-4 precipitation hardening (PH) stainless steel (SS) parts produced using selective laser melting (SLM). Design/methodology/approach – ...

The development of a new class of spatial light modulator (SLM), which uses modulation of lossy guided waves generated by surface-plasmon resonance, is described. The potential advantages of this technique are explained, including increased response uniformity and enhanced sensitivity and speed. An optically addressed SLM that is based on a nematic liquid crystal with a spatial resolution bette...

Functional and nutritional soluble proteins can be recovered from surimi (and surimi-like material) processing wastewater, reducing environmental problems and the cost of an irresponsible waste disposal. Recovered proteins may be added back at a low percentage to surimi products. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of the addition of soluble recovered proteins (RP), obtained from me...

The multispiked connecting scaffold (MSC-Scaffold) prototype, inspired by the biological system of anchorage of the articular cartilage in the periarticular trabecular bone by means of subchondral bone interdigitations, is the essential innovation in fixation of the bone in resurfacing arthroplasty (RA) endoprostheses. The biomimetic MSC-Scaffold, due to its complex geometric structure, can be ...

Service-orientation aims at decomposing monolithic application systems into services, i.e. functional units that adhere to certain criteria such as standardized interfaces and the ability to be flexibly combined with each other. With the growing diffusion of this paradigm, the management of an increasing number of services along their lifecycle (Service Lifecycle Management SLM) is becoming a s...

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is an attractive, promising and emerging technique which achieves high data rate in mobile multipath channels. LTE was the first technology to use OFDM. There are many more advantages of OFDM which includes immunity to multipath fading. High Peak to Average Power Ratio(PAPR) is the main disadvantage of OFDM-LTE Networks. This paper describes how...

Forest surveys provide critical information for many diverse interests. Data are often collected from samples, and from these samples, maps of resources and estimates of aerial totals or averages are required. In this paper, two approaches for mapping and estimating totals; the spatial linear model (SLM) and k-NN (k-Nearest Neighbor) are compared, theoretically, through simulations, and as appl...