direct estimation of the adhesion of solid polymers

... secondary transitions) The strength and magnitude of these transitions depends on the degree of crystallinity and the size of the lamellae, and therefore is influenced by the thermal history (i.e ... transition A quantitative prediction thereof is outside the scope of this thesis and requires a more detailed study, including the description of the local stress state The thesis ends in Chapter with ... structure The influence of other molecular parameters such as molecular weight (chain length) is mainly restricted to the rubber region, where it determines the width of the rubber plateau The height of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... nB is the number of bonds; N, Avogadro's number; l,, the length of the repeat unit; and V, the molar volume The theoretical brittle stress is then the number of bonds times the strength of an ... compiled the densities and the thermal coefficient, in terms of the slope of the volume-temperature curve, from several sources in the literature We have then calculated the volume at the glass ... regression analysis to solve for the value of Uo .The factor Vo was assumed to be the molar volume of the glass at K ( 1.42 V,,,) The solid line shows the fit to the data in Figure ( a ) - ( c...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... effects and the contribution of the dam to the genotype of her offspring, the direct genetic variance being inflated by part of the genetic maternal variance It seems that another part of maternal ... despite the theoretical advantages of this model, some data and model conditions can affect the validity and precision of the estimation of variance components The first source of bias lies in the ... viewpoint The value of γ and the percentage of offspring coming from a link sire are presented in Table V These levels of connectedness concern the direct effects: only the sires can have offspring...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... whom the mass was located in the portion of body or tail of the pancreas For tumors of SPT located in the neck and body of the pancreas, resection of the midportion of the pancreas and the mass ... and the level of detections were all within normal limits The median diameter of the lesions was 8.0 cm (range 4-20) Nine patients had their tumors within the head, in the body and in the tail of ... 311 Fig The CT scan indicated the typical internal or capsular calcification in the SPT Once the diagnosis of SPT is made, surgery is the first choice of treatment, since other adjuvant therapies,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... applicability of MANN model, a total of 46 data of the consolidation test results are used 43 learning data are used for training the ANN model, and the others are used for the comparison 631 16 between the ... and the measured value The properties of the soil used for training of the MANN models are shown in Table Class Relative Importance (%) Table Properties of the soil used for learning of the MANN ... Relative importance of the input parameter on the preconsolidation pressure ratio The number of neuron for each hidden layer is determined as from the results of consolidation test and the learning...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2013, 15:01

... of inlet water and hydroxides iron on the surface of zeolite With regards to the removal rate of the pollutants in Table 2, the differences among the MSL systems were small considering with the ... concentration of treated water, however, fluctuated rather than that of BOD, except that of MSL and which were loaded river water at the minimum rate of m3 m-2 day-1 Pattern of fluctuation of T-P concentration ... addition to above regular sampling for the determination of the seasonal fluctuation of river water and treated water, we determined the daily fluctuation of them by those sampling at hour interval...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... by taking the square roots of ˆ the diagonal elements of the covariance matrix Σn GLS The values of the weights involved in the GLS estimation depend on the values of the fitted model These values ... proportional to the square of the predicted incidence: wj = 1/[z(tj ; θ)]2 On the other hand, if ρ = 1/2, then the weights are proportional to the reciprocal of the predicted incidence; these correspond ... reported by the CDC in the US during the 1999–00 season [12] The number of H3N2 cases (isolates) is displayed as a function of time Time is measured as the number of weeks since the start of the year’s...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... air quality model to estimate the dispersion function, the accuracy of the estimated emissions will depend on the ability of the model to reproduce the dispersion of the pollutants Until now, in ... difference in the emission factors of VOCs for LDVs and HDVs The emission factors calculated in this study are generally higher compared to the results of the other studies around the world Only the emission ... difference of components in the fuel types used; type and age of the engines; circulation conditions of vehicles; topography of the study area Conclusions Based on the advantages and disadvantages of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... drop of solution of the enzyme deposited on the surface of either the PGE or the GCE, which were then immersed in the cell containing the electrolyte solution As an example, in Fig are shown the ... with the logarithm of the scan rate; (B) variation in the CV cathodic and anodic peak potentials with the logarithm of the scan rate of the cyclic voltammograms of 98 lM DgAOR in solution at the ... on a gold electrode and in the presence of neomycin, the redox reaction observed is due to the reduction of the Mo atom of the molybdopterin cofactor Indeed, although the molybdenum site is buried,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... reaches the consumer • Direct marketing relationships educate the consumer about the needs of the farmer The more people understand about the nature of local food production, the more likely they ... to the goods the customer orders from the seller by means of telephone, directly or indirectly (i.e fax and Internet), or mail order, regardless of how the merchandise is advertised, how the ... dependent on the level of complexity of the processing facility If shellfish will be transferred from one body of water to another, or imported from out of state with the intention of placing into...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... during the deposition of TiN The AES profile of the substrate surface right after the laser ablation reveals the existence of nickel on the surface, as shown in Fig Silicon atoms diffuse out to the ... shown in the TEM photographs, the nanowires begin to grow at this stage even though they are not observed using the FESEM The growth behavior of the nanowires and the EDS spectra of the layers ... were synthesized by solid state diffusion of silicon from the silica films The growth mechanism could be explained by direct solid to solid phase transformation, so called, the SS mechanism The TiN...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:04

... presentation of the results of the analysis; The discussion of the results including a brief discussion on the sensitivity of the forecast to the assumptions in the model Linkages between disease and the ... II) The finding that many of the variables contributed little to the variations in the forecasts is sufficient indication of model sensitivity rather than the sensitivity to the assumptions on the ... computed by the model and the GBD projected estimates The impact on the estimates is subtracted out of the estimates of lost income Model assumptions The characteristic model assumptions for the simple...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... logarithm of the published RR estimates as the entered means of the distribution and the standard errors of these RR estimates derived from the published 95% CIs (Table I) For each of the output ... possible risk The attributable fraction of disease burden in the population is determined by the prevalence of exposure to the risk factor in the population and the relative risk (RR) of disease ... from solid fuels, specifically lung cancer and COPD However, information on the joint effects of smoking and solid fuel use is scarce In order to avoid possible overestimation of the burden of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... as a consequence of the disorder introduced by the presence of the defects If x is the mole fraction of a certain type of defect, the entropy increase due to the formation of these defects is ... that the influence of the surface dipole layer can be considered as the effect of a layer of infinite extension If one could measure the energy for the transfer of the electron from the bulk of a ... In these equations IIµ z+ is the solvation free enthalpy of the ion, Iµ – is M e i the binding free enthalpy of the electron in the metal The sum of ∆Gi corresponds with the difference in the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2014, 11:22

... third represents the perceived ease or difficulty of performing the behaviour The theory begins with the determinants of these antecedents and proposes that behaviour is a function of salient information, ... relationship out of the four tested Limitations A framework analogous to the theory of planned behaviour was followed The secondary nature of the analysis limited us to certain variables We were therefore ... minimize the difference between the covariance structure of the observed data and the predicted model Logistic regression models predict the occurrence of a binary event using a number of independent...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... that Nogo-66 promotes adhesion of human matDC, we wanted to further clarify if it is indeed the loss of NgR1 expression that is the functional cause for increased adhesion of matDCs to myelin To ... down-regulation of NgR1 in matDC That is, down-regulation of NgR1 in matDCs promotes their adhesion to myelin, resulting in the selective accumulation of matDCs rather than immDC in the myelin debris-containing ... CD1a provide further evidence of successful maturation (Figure 1B) Having verified the in vitro generation of myeloid DCs, we went on to examine the regulation of NgR expression in these cells NgR1...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... were observed in the presence of various concentrations of caffeine We selected the 10 mM concentration of caffeine for the further biochemical study because the osteoblasts showed the highest activities ... Hypotheses to explain these associations have centered on the caffeine content of coffee [26] In fact, caffeine has a variety of pharmacological actions and cellular responses Coffee is one of the ... marker of the osteoblasts phenotype, while the von-Kossa stain of mineralized nodules formation represented the end differentiation marker of the osteoblasts In this study, the differentiation of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... could be due to a number of factors, either the presence of the MNPs both intracellular and on the membrane of the cells or the nanoparticles themselves interfere with the reagents In our experiments, ... understanding of the degree of cytotoxicity of the MNPs, we also investigated the effect the polymer-coated nanoparticles had on the integrity of the cell membrane and oxidative stress the MNPs elicited ... explained by the adherence of the sticky polymers to the well surface or the positive amine groups being attracted to the negative charge of the cell membrane After pegylation, the interference appeared...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... to the matrix X L (L being the iteration number), in the order of the highest to the lowest sensitivity To make the adjustment of the net influence of each of the remaining parameters on the ... into the UKF during the estimation of the parameter The central difference (CD) method was used to calculate the sensitivity coefficient, where the step size is taken as the square root of the ... based on the model structure and the measurement data One of the benefits in integrating estimation and identifiability is the reuse of the variance generated by the UKF for the step size in the calculation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... denotes the number of rows in the parity check matrix of the code, uk is the number of nonzero elements in the kth row of the parity check matrix and niter is the number of iterations of the optimization ... the phase offset of the channel The proposed method of blind estimation of the phase offset is based on a MAP approach in the sense of maximizing the probability that a phase θ corresponds to the ... achieve the estimation After having estimated the CFO using the method proposed in Section 2.1, we correct the rotation of the received samples then apply the proposed algorithm of phase offset estimation...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20