BACKGROUND Large bone defects resulting from trauma or disease pose a threat to humans. Thus far, tissue engineering as an important clinical approach uses cells, growth factors and scaffolds to regenerate large areas of damaged bone tissue. Since bone is a nanocomposite structure, it is assumed that nanomaterial scaffolds can induce or promote osteogenesis by mimicking the cell niche at nano l...

Creeping dislocations in an elastic half-space are commonly used to model interseismic deformation at subduction zones, and might also apply to major intracontinental thrust faults such as the Main Himalayan Thrust. Here, we compare such models with a more realistic 2-D finite element model that accounts for the mechanical layering of the continental lithosphere and surface processes, and that ...

Capable of three-dimensional imaging of the cornea with micrometer-scale resolution, spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) offers potential advantages over Placido ring and Scheimpflug photography based systems for accurate extraction of quantitative keratometric parameters. In this work, an SDOCT scanning protocol and motion correction algorithm were implemented to minimize the ...

Micro-honeycomb structures with various pitches between adjacent cells were hot-embossed on Zr35Ti30Cu8.25Be26.75 bulk metallic glass surface. The effect of pitch geometry on the frictional behavior of metallic glass surface was systematically investigated. The results revealed that all textured metallic glass surfaces show a reduction in friction coefficient compared to smooth surface. More in...

This paper provides a review of the present status topic dealt with. The contact and non-contact methods used for rock joint roughness measurement are summarized including their salient features, advantages, disadvantages. A critical is given empirical, statistical, fractal-based quantification identifying shortcomings, strong attributes. surface topography rough joints highly erratic. Fraction...

phospholipids are important for the biological lipid and are commonly used in biophysical studies.a quantumcalculation for two phospholipids dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine and dipalmitoylphosphatidic acidwere performed using the abinitio software. geometry optimization structures were obtained at rhf level using3-21g, 6-31g*. these basis sets were used to understanding the effects of envir...

Within the context of 5-axis free-form machining, CAM software offers various ways of toolpath generation, depending on the geometry of the surface to be machined. Therefore, as the manufactured surface quality results from the choice of the machining strategy and machining parameters, the prediction of surface roughness in function of the machining conditions is an important issue in 5-axis ma...

This study investigates various models to represent the gross geometric shape of the Moon. Asymmetric polyaxial geometric modelsnamely three-, fourand six-axial lunar figure are compared and contrasted with the axially symmetric three-axis ellipsoidal model derived from Chang'e 1 and SELENE laser altimetry data. All solutions confirm a hydrostatically stable lunar shape shifted with respect to ...

In this paper we propose a new technique for Shape from Shading (SfS) from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images based on fractals. In particular, the present paper shows that, introducing proper models both for surface and scattering mechanisms, it is possible to estimate with sufficient accuracy the underlying topography also with a very simple and low computational complexity inversion techn...