Daqing is situated in one of the severely cold regions of China. The living environment in this region is extremely poor because of the harsh climate and the backward economy. The external wall is an important component of the external envelope of buildings, and it greatly contributes to the indoor thermal environment. By taking the external wall as the research object, this study summarizes th...

Electrorheological (ER) and magnetorheological (MR) suspensions undergo a reverse phase transition from a liquid-like to solid-like state in response to an external electric or magnetic field, respectively. This paper briefly reviews various types of electroor magneto-responsive materials from either polymeric or inorganic and hybrid composite materials. The fabrication strategies for ER/MR can...

introduction: to recognize the myelinated nerve fibers of the external and extreme capsules in human brain. materials and methods: 10 adult and normal brains (20 hemispheres) from both sexes were studied using 15 mm serial secions in all three cardinal planes after fixation and processing. these sections were stained by klüver – barrera and heidenhin – woelcke methods. results: some fibers from...

We demonstrate that voltage-controlled negative refractive index can be obtained in self-organized InAs quantum dot systems. As the bias voltage is changed, the refractive index can be adjusted and controlled continuously from negative to positive and simultaneously the loss of light in the system will be small. The single-negative index materials and the double-negative index materials can be ...

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...

The goal of this project is to elucidate the chemical bonding and interface formation of metal fission products with the coating materials used in state-of-the-art TRISO fuel particles. Particular emphasis is placed on an analysis of intermediate chemical phases at the interface, the intermixing/diffusion behavior, and the electronic interface structure as a function of material choice (metal a...

Few topics in the business literature have received greater attention in recent years than supply chain management. Organizations are recognizing that success is significantly influenced by the ability to effectively manage the flow of materials and information between internal functional areas, across interorganizational boundaries, and with suppliers and customers. As organizations focus on t...

Air-Conditioning (AC) systems are responsible for a considerable portion of the energy consumption in buildings located in high cooling load requiring regions of Iran. In addition, the heat flow through the buildingschr('39') external walls plays a major role in cooling load estimations for the countrychr('39')s hot regions. Therefore, application of insulation materials in external walls has g...

In this paper we study External A*, a variant of the internal A* algorithm that employs external memory. The approach applies to implicit, undirected, unweighted state space problem graphs with consistent estimates. The complexity of the External algorithm is almost linear in external sorting time and accumulates to O(sort(|E|) + scan(|V |)) I/Os, where V and E are the set of nodes and edges in...

INTRODUCTION The largest contribution for the global population exposure to ionizing radiation arises from natural sources, especially from radionuclides present in terrestrial crust. Certain human activities may eventually increase such exposure to significant levels, from the point of view of radiological protection (1, 2). The presence of natural radionuclides in building materials may lead ...