BACKGROUND The use of a resorbable implant connected with septal cartilage would facilitate external septoplasty, offering mechanical stability until the cartilage fragments heal. OBJECTIVE To study the histological and clinical results of septoplasty with a resorbable implant (polydioxanone [PDS; Ethicon, Norderstedt, Germany]) in conjunction with cartilage. DESIGN To provide histological ...

Liquid food packages consist of various polymers films, which are bonded together with Aluminum foil (Al-foil) using adhesion or by direct heat. The main aim this research was to define important material properties such as fracture toughness and some FE-simulation model parameters damage initiation, evolution, the between Al-foil low-density polyethylene (LDPE) film. This investigation is base...

A novel relational learning approach that tightly integrates the naı̈ve Bayes learning scheme with the inductive logic programming rule-learner FOIL is presented. In contrast to previous combinations that have employed naı̈ve Bayes only for post-processing the rule sets, the presented approach employs the naı̈ve Bayes criterion to guide its search directly. The proposed technique is implemented in...

2014 The energy straggling of heavy ion beams at tandem energies, passing through thin foils, has been studied with ions of mass up to A = 35. Charge exchange in the foils has been found to have a considerable effect on the energy spread. Thickness non-uniformities in the foils can also make significant contributions. Extrapolation of the observations to the case of a uniform carbon stripper fo...

Introduction: The velocity distribution of impact ejecta from regolith-like target has been investigated in laboratory for nearly three decades. For the case of vertical impact, the ejecta velocity distribution is determined experimentally and given by a power-law with an exponent of –1.22 [1]. There is an upper limit to the ejecta velocity (Hartmann cutoff velocity) that depends on impact velo...

Fully stripped heavy ion beam of a nearly relativistic energy and a super high intensity is supposed to be accumulated in the storage ring of ITEP-TWAC Facility that is under construction at ITEP on the base of existing accelerators. Nonliouvillean multiturn injection technique is elaborated to store in the accumulator ring as much as one thousand batches, which are accelerated in the booster s...