background and aims. effect of surface treatments on repair bond strength of aged composite resins might be different due to their dissimilar fillers. the aim was to evaluate the effect of different surface treatments on repair micro-shear bond strength (µsbs) of silica- (spectrum tph) and zirconia-filled (filtek z250) composite resins. materials and methods. twenty-seven composite resin blocks...

Arithmetic of K3 surfaces defined over finite fields are investigated. In particular, we show that any K3 surface X of finite height over a finite field k of characteristic p ≥ 5 has a quasi-canonical lifting Z to characteristic 0, and that for any such Z, the endormorphism algebra of the transcendental cycles V (Z), as a Hodge module, is a CM field over Q. We illustrate by examples how to dete...

We show that every action of a finite dihedral group on a closed orientable surface F extends to a 3-dimensional handlebody V , with ∂V = F . In the case of a finite abelian group G, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a G-action on a surface to extend to a compact 3-manifold, or, equivalently in this case, to a 3-dimensional handlebody; in particular all (fixed-point) free actions ...

In this paper, a new smooth second order sliding mode control is proposed. This algorithm is a modified form of Super Twisting algorithm. The Super Twisting guarantees the asymptotic stability, but the finite time stability of proposed method is proved with introducing a new particular Lyapunov function. The Proposed algorithm which is able to control nonlinear systems with matched structured u...

In this paper, we extend the sliding mode idea to a class of unmatched uncertain variable structure systems. This method is achieved with introducing a new terminal sliding variable and the finite time stability of proposed method is proved using a new particular finite time condition in both reaching and sliding phases. In reaching phase new sliding mode controller is derived to guarantee the ...

In this article, finite difference method (FDM) is used to solve sixth-order derivatives of differential equations in buckling analysis of nanoplates due to coupled surface energy and non-local elasticity theories. The uniform temperature change is used to study thermal effect. The small scale and surface energy effects are added into the governing equations using Eringen’s non-local elasticity...

In this article, finite difference method (FDM) is used to solve sixth-order derivatives of differential equations in buckling analysis of nanoplates due to coupled surface energy and non-local elasticity theories. The uniform temperature change is used to study thermal effect. The small scale and surface energy effects are added into the governing equations using Eringen’s non-local elasticity...

Given a minimal surface S equipped with a generically finite map to an Abelian variety and C ⊂ S a rational or an elliptic curve, we show that the canonical degree of C is bounded by four times the self-intersection of the canonical divisor of S. As a corollary, we obtain the finiteness of rational and elliptic curves with an optimal uniform bound on their canonical degrees on any surface of ge...