Automotive HVAC systems manufacturers were the first to introduce microchannel condensers in the comfort airconditioning market. HVAC&R original equipment manufacturers have followed their lead and recently started using microchannel condensers in residential and commercial cooling and heat pump applications. These applications began less than a decade back and their number has been increasing ...

Scapho-trapezio-trapezoid arthrodesis was originally performed for the treatment of scapho-lunate instability. However, only a few publications have described this technique for treatment of osteoarthritis of the scapho-trapezio-trapezoid (STT) joint. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the results of triscaphoid arthrodesis for STT osteoarthritis with a long-term follow-up. Thirteen cases ...

Polydimethylsiloxane has been dominantly employed as the substrate material for microchip capillary electrophoresis. The poor surface chemistry, however, generates inconsistent electroosmotic flow under the electrophoretic condition, limiting its broader applications. In this work, different polyelectrolytes, including polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride, polyvinyl sulfate, and dextran sulfa...

Steel thin-walled beams have been widely used in civil engineering as purlins, ceiling beams or wall substructure beams. There are often planar members such as trapezoidal sheeting or sandwich panels used as roof or wall cladding fastened to the steel beams. The planar members also serve as stabilization of thin-walled beams against buckling due to loss of stability. This paper focuses on probl...

The factor complexity function C w (n) of a finite or infinite word w counts the number of distinct factors of w of length n for each n ≥ 0. A finite word w of length |w| is said to be trapezoidal if the graph of its factor complexity C w (n) as a function of n (for 0 ≤ n ≤ |w|) is that of a regular trapezoid (or possibly an isosceles triangle); that is, C w (n) increases by 1 with each n on so...

fuzzy newton-cotes method for integration of fuzzy functions that was proposed by ahmady in [1]. in this paper we construct error estimate of fuzzy newton-cotes method such as fuzzy trapezoidal rule and fuzzy simpson rule by using taylor's series. the corresponding error terms are proven by two theorems. we prove that the fuzzy trapezoidal rule is accurate for fuzzy polynomial of degree one and...

The objective of the study is to present cosine similarity measure based multi-attribute decision making under neutrosophic environment. The assesments of alternatives over the attributes are expressed with trapezoidal fuzzy neutrosophic numbers in which the three independent components namely, truth-membership degree (T), indeterminacy-membership degree (I) and falsity-membership degree (F) ar...

the paper numerically presents laminar forced convection of a nanofluid flowing in a duct at microscale. results were compared with both analytical and experimental data and observed good concordance with previous studies available in the literature. influences of brinkman and reynolds number on thermal and hydrodynamic indexes have been investigated. for a given nanofluid, no change in efficie...

How to maximize the efficiency of X-ray Talbot interferometry (XTI) is discussed for X-ray phase imaging. Shape parameters of an amplitude grating used in XTI strongly affect the efficiency. We calculated efficiencies assuming rectangular and trapezoidal patterns for an absorption grating. As a result, a rectangular absorption grating of a duty ratio of 1:1 is optimal. But, a trapezoidal patter...

Fuzzy number approximation by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers which preserves the expected interval is discussed. New algorithms for calculating the proper trapezoidal approximation of fuzzy numbers with respect to the distance based on bi-symmetrical weighted functions are proposed. It is shown that the adequate approximation operator is chosen with respect both to the global spread of a fuzzy numbe...