... designs for artificialmechanical red cells (respirocytes [2, LINK]) and artificialmechanical platelets (clottocytes [3, LINK]) This paper presents a scaling study for artificialmechanical phagocytes ... Although complex mechanical assemblages may dissipate 109 W/m3, mechanomechanical and electromechanical transducers are generally very efficient, dissipating 1012-1016 W/m3 during mechanical energy ... microbivore scaling and design is the process of digestion of organic substances, which also has some similarity to the digestion of food The microbivore digestive system has four fundamental components...
... consider the mechanical problem with factorized interval parameters: EI 2/9l −1/3l2 −1/3l2 2/3l3 d F = θ M (35) As this system is quite simple, the solution can be found analytically The exact mechanical ... solution set is given in Figure It is called mechanical exact solution set The hull of this set (which is an interval vector) has also been drawn The mechanical exact solution set is included in ... Applied to FEM 11 x 10 10 -3 10 2Σ∃∃ ([A], {b}) Rotation θ Σ∃∃ ([A], {b}) Mechanical exact solution set Hull of the mechanical set Modified Rump’s algorithm 10 12 Displacement d 14 16 x 10 -3...
... ventilation with LVT can improve oxygenation, ventilation and lung mechanical function with no evidence of lung injury by two hours in mechanically ventilated mice [23] Therefore, lung injury seen ... lung injury by mechanical ventilation J Immunol 2005, 175:3369-3376 Wrigge H, Uhlig U, Baumgarten G, Menzenbach J, Zinserling J, Ernst M, Dromann D, Welz A, Uhlig S, Putensen C: Mechanical ventilation ... CJ, Ince C: Mechanical ventilation of mice Basic Res Cardiol 2000, 95:510-520 Ranieri VM, Suter PM, Tortorella C, De Tullio R, Dayer JM, Brienza A, Bruno F, Slutsky AS: Effect of mechanical ventilation...
... INTERFACIAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES USING WEDGE INDENTATION METHOD YEAP KONG BOON (B Eng (Hons.), University Technology Malaysia) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ... Interfacial Mechanical Properties of Low-k /Si: Wedge Indentation Technique, ICMAT 2009, Singapore (Presented by Kong Boon Yeap) K B Yeap and K.Y Zeng, Determination of Interfacial Mechanical ... functional purposes, but also have desirable mechanical properties, e.g elastic modulus, hardness, interfacial toughness and time-dependent fracture properties Many mechanical measurement techniques have...
... the fabrication processes, such as chemical -mechanical- polishing (CMP) and chemical etching, the low-k dielectrics are subjected to different levels of mechanical stresses and contacted with various ... microbatteries for the microelectronic mechanical system (MEMS) [2-4] The material structure and electrical properties of RuO2 film have been well studied [5-9], but the mechanical and fracture behavior ... conditions and the devices may be subjected to temperature-change induced thermal stresses and possible mechanical stresses Therefore it is important to study crack growth phenomena in different environments...
... (left) 36 Artificial Disc Preparation Figure 27: The artificial disc (PRODISC) inserted into the disc space after the disc has been dissected and instrumented The implantation of the artificial ... before and after an artificial disc replacement The main objective of this project was to determine the changes in facet joint mechanics brought about by implantation of an artificial disc replacement ... lumbar segmental kinematics for varying artificial device placements and position within the disc space The alternative hypothesis is that posteriorly-placed artificial disc replacement (Prodisc...
... ASTM D4186 Verify the reliance of the ANN Fig Flow chart for programming of the artificial neural network DESIGN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL VERIFICATIONS OF MANN MODEL Neural networks are ... Preconsolidation Pressure Ratio 1.8 1.6 These limited results show the possibility of utilizing the Artificial neural network model for prediction of the proper strain rate of the CRSC test 1.4 1.2 ... Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol 11, No 1, pp 60-62 Ellis, GW (1992) "Neural network modeling of the mechanical behavior of sand," Proc 9th Conf ASCE, New York, pp 421-424 Garson, GD (1991) "Interpreting...
... weight (GVW); however the accuracy decreased for individual axle weights [10] The application of artificial neural networks (ANN) to the B-WIM was attempted in 2003 by Gonzalez et al for noise ... B(10) 15 14.8 94.0 B(10) B(10) 13 10.6 98.0 Class Conclusions In this study, the applicability of artificial neural networks (ANN) is investigated for the improvement of conventional B-WIM systems ... France, May 19-22, 2008; pp 221-230 Gonzalez, A., Papagiannakis, A.T., O’Brien, E.J ‘Evaluation of an Artificial Neural Network Technique Applied to Multiple-Sensor Weigh-in-Motion System Transp Res...
... mapping between the acoustic speech and the appropriate visual speech movements by training an artificial neural network to associate or map fundamental acoustic properties of auditory speech ... data set in such a way that all parameters varied between 0.05 and 0.95 We used a feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN) with three layers, as shown in Figure The acoustic input is streamed...
... features it can robustly match with the digest Clearly, there are tradeoffs for choosing the number of features and the amount of compression to suit a given feature digest length; we explore these tradeoffs ... broader network, and compress them with principal component analysis Upon receipt of a feature digest message, a receiver node compares its own features to the decompressed features, robustly ... image-adaptive principal component analysis [25] to further compress feature descriptors THE FEATURE DIGEST ALGORITHM When a new camera enters the network, there is no way to know a priori which other...
... by the use of multivariate statistical method, particularly principal component regression and artificial neural network (ANN).7 ANN has been widely used in chemical application such as interpretation ... the concentration value of Pb(II) and Cd(II) Figure 1: Schematic representation of a three layer artificial neural network The network training and data treatment were realized by using MATLAB ... Shandizi, F (2001) Simultaneous determination of cobalt and nickel by spectrophotometric method and artificial neural network Microchemical Journal, 70, 35–40 Zupan, J & Gasteiger, J (1991) Neural...
... Furthermore, Dootz et al.1 have shown that material aging can dramatically affects the physical and mechanical properties Sanders et al.2 compared acrylic resin record bases made from three commercial ... the adaptation of the record bases with either curing method or the resins used The adaptation of artificial dentures made from acrylic resins is clinically acceptable with either microwave curing ... polymerization cycle In the present study, the residual monomer content was evaluated by HPLC, and mechanical properties of heat-cure and self-cure denture base materials were checked out in both...
... description of optimal mechanical ventilator settings for patients who have received a TAH or strategies to postoperatively manage the ventilators of such patients Potential consequences of mechanical ventilator ... changes were made Discussion A search of PubMed using the terms ventilation and artificial heart and autocycling and artificial heart on May 23, 2009, did not reveal any publications regarding autocycling ... SIMV, synchronized intermittent mechanical ventilation; PS, pressure support; CVP, central venous pressure; BMI, body mass index; RR, respiratory rate; TAH, total artificial heart; PEEP, positive...
... target population were those patients requiring long-term mechanical ventilation for medical reasons Post-surgical patients requiring extended mechanical ventilation as a result of post-surgical complications ... duration of mechanical ventilation R209 Conclusion The use of remifentanil in an analgesic-based sedative regime in critically ill patients significantly decreases the duration of mechanical ventilation ... remifentanil-based analgesia and sedation significantly reduced the duration of mechanical ventilation • Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation can be achieved significantly faster with remifentanil-based...
... IV THE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ……………………………………27 4.1 Fast Artificial Neural Network (FANN) …………… …………………… 29 4.2 Creating the Artificial Neural Network ……………………………… ……30 4.3 Training the Artificial ... filter uses artificial Intelligence to process images by visualization [35] Although the results given are encouraging, this thesis uses an artificial neural network to classify spam and ham Artificial ... $newfile done Figure 3.5 Unix Script for Reformatting File Names 26 CHAPTER IV THE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK An artificial neural network (ANN) is a computational model based on biological neural...
... research entitled: “Using pictures in teaching vocabulary of English to the second year students of Mechanical Department at Haiphong Industrial Vocational College” As states by Gerlach and Emily ... effectiveness of using pictures in teaching vocabulary of English to the second year students of Mechanical Department at Haiphong Industrial Vocational college Hopefully, based on the results ... Therefore, the study focuses on using pictures in teaching vocabulary to the second year students of Mechanical Department at Haiphong Industrial Vocational College Methods of the study The study applied...
... challenging task and has not been studied to a great extent In this thesis, molecularly imprinted artificial receptors were developed for the recognition and adsorption of viruses Miniemulsion polymerization ... around the template-to-be imprinted With a wide range of chemical functionalities and tailored mechanical properties, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have been commercially useful in many ... capsid (coat) encoded by the viral genome Instead of targeting individual viral protein residues, an artificial receptor for the entire virus was created through the imprinting process A simple bacteriophage...