The role of friction in the functional performance of biomaterial interfaces is widely reckoned to be critical and complicated but poorly understood. To better understand friction forces, we investigated the natural adaptation of the holdfast or byssus of mussels that live in high-energy surf habitats. As the outermost covering of the byssus, the cuticle deserves particular attention for its ad...

We study the one-dimensional Fisher-KPP equation, with an initial condition u0(x) that coincides with the step function except on a compact set. A well-known result of M. Bramson in [3, 4] states that, as t → +∞, the solution converges to a traveling wave located at the position X(t) = 2t − (3/2) log t + x0 + o(1), with the shift x0 that depends on u0. U. Ebert and W. Van Saarloos have formally...

PURPOSE To determine radiation doses from coronary computed tomographic (CT) angiography performed by using a 320-detector row volume scanner and evaluate how the effective dose depends on scan mode and the calculation method used. MATERIALS AND METHODS Radiation doses from coronary CT angiography performed by using a volume scanner were determined by using metal-oxide-semiconductor field-eff...

Using a series approach, expressions for the average symbol error probability (SEP) of coherent binary signals over a correlated Rayleigh fading channel with dual predetection equal gain combining (EGC) and selection diversity (SD) are derived. For both EGC and SD cases, the SEP is in terms of the correlation coefficient of the branch amplitudes, which is easy to compute and depicts clearly the...

The depths and areas of the scour holes around spur dikes are most concerning issues regarding dike design. In this study, using a moving bed experiment, influence traditional rock-fill new permeable with different permeabilities on riverbed under unsteady flow was studied, spatial characteristics at heads were analyzed. results show that increases in permeability coefficient dike, depth area h...

This paper proposes a blind watermarking algorithm based on maximum wavelet coefficient quantization for copyright protection. The wavelet coefficients are grouped into different block size and blocks are randomly selected from different subbands. We add different energies to the maximum wavelet coefficient under the constraint that the maximum wavelet coefficient is always maximum in a block. ...