We report on ongoing investigations of the potential for Solid Free-form Fabrication (SFF) processes to autonomously manufacture entire fully functional complex electromechanical systems, and of the application of such technology to a selfsustained robot ecology. Two complementary approaches are considered: (a) A universal fabrication system capable of autonomously manufacturing arbitrary machi...

Reaction bonded silicon carbide (RBSiC) has a wide variety of industrial applications and a manufacturing process based on Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) has been demonstrated in previous research at the University of Texas. That study was directed toward semiconductor manufacturing applications and was based on prior indirect SLS methods. Several key research questions were addressed for thre...

Self-incompatibility in almond and Prunus species is an important trait that prevents self-fertilization. Selfincompatibility in almond is controlled gametophytically by the multiallelic S-locus. Present study was done in order to identification and preliminary selection of self compatible progenies resulted from controlled crosses in almond using specific primer SfF/SfR. Some important morphol...

A computer-designed, solvent-free scaffold offer several potential advantages such as ease of customized manufacture and in vivo safety. In this work, we firstly used a computer-designed, solvent-free scaffold and human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs) to regenerate neo-bone within cranial bone defects. The hDPSCs expressed mesenchymal stem cell markers and served as an abundant source of stem c...

Additive/Subtractive Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) integrates material addition (deposition) and removal (machining) to build up three-dimensional objects incrementally. This class of processes offers sophisticated design flexibility with engineering materials, three-dimensional layer building, and the ability to fabricate complex engineering devices and multi-material objects. However, plan...

Solid Free-Form Fabrication (SFF) technologies allow the fabrication of anatomical 3D scaffolds from computer tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patients' dataset. These structures can be designed and fabricated with a variable, interconnected and accessible porous network, resulting in modulable mechanical properties, permeability, and architecture that can be tailored to mimi...

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5199 – PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Øysteinsgate 3, Postboks 7805, 5020, Bergen, Norway Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7 Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Antonianum Uni...

It is necessary to monitor and identify mangroves types and spatial extent near coastal areas because it plays an important role in coastal ecosystem and environmental protection. This research aims at identifying and mapping mangroves types along Karachi coast ranging from 24.79 to 24.85 in latitude and 66.91 to 66.97 in longitude using hyperspectral remote sensing data and techniques. Image a...

The Andreev current and the subgap conductance in a superconductor/ insulator/ ferromagnet (SIF) structure in the presence of a small spin-splitting field show novel interesting features [1]. For example, the Andreev current at zero temperature can be enhanced by a spin-splitting field h, smaller than the superconducting gap ∆ , as has been recently reported by the authors. Also at finite tempe...