Globally, many women are still disadvantaged when it comes to business opportunities. Entrepreneurship development programs, specifically designed to assist women entrepreneurs, are assisting in solving this problem to a certain extent. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that motivate females to start their own business. Females, from three different groups (2013, 2014 and 201...

This paper examines the pull-in behavior of a bio-mass sensor with a cantilevered CNT actuated electrostatically by considering rippling deformation. Although this phenomenon can remarkably change the behavior of CNT, its effect on the performance of a CNT-based mass sensor has not been investigated thus far. This investigation is based on modified Euler-Bernoulli beam theory and rippling effec...

The mass-spring model of electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) or nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) is pervasive in the MEMS and NEMS literature. Nonetheless a rigorous analysis of this model does not exist. Here periodic solutions of the canonical mass-spring model in the viscosity dominated time harmonic regime are studied. Ranges of the dimensionless average app...

This study investigated the fracture resistance and retention of endodontically treated roots with over-flared canals restored with different post systems, including one cast metal post and four fiber posts with/without auxiliary fiber posts. One hundred endodontically treated incisor roots were experimentally flared using a tapered diamond bur. The roots were restored using one of the five pos...

In this paper, the potential of superelastic shape memory alloy (SE-SMA) wire embedded architectures to increase quasi-static indentation properties a laminated glass/epoxy composite material was evaluated. Three types SE-SMA configurations namely straight independent, meshed and anchored wires were in laminates via vacuum bag resin infusion technique. Throughout investigation, changes behavior...

Al-Si is the most popular coating used to prevent oxidation on surfaces of hot-stamped steel sheets during heating process. However, like other coatings, it affects strength spot welds in joining parts. In this study, effects tensile resistance spot-welded joints are discussed. Two types 1.8 mm steel, uncoated and coated forms, were spot-welded, shear behavior welded was studied both static dyn...

The paper presents the effects of fluid flow on the static and dynamic properties of carbon nanotubes that convey a viscous fluid. The mathematical model is based on the modified couple stress theory. The effects of various fluid parameters and boundary conditions on the pull-in voltages are investigated in detail. The applicability of the proposed system as nanovalves or nanosensors in nanosca...