objective(s): so far, extensive research has been conducted on the preparation and characterization of nano ceramics based on ca-si by sol- gel method and bioactivity was evaluated, but, a few researches have paid attention to the preparation of materials by mechanical activation (ma). the aim of this study was the preparation of akermanite nano powder by mechanical activation method and bioact...

in this study, mixed metal oxides al2o3/mgo/tio2 coatings with al/mg/ti ratio of 5:1:3 and 2.5:3:4 were coated on aluminum by sol-gel method. the surface morphology, phase analysis, thermal behavior and the corrosion behavior of the al2o3/mgo/tio2 coatings were characterized by (sem), (xrd), (tg-dta) and potentiodynamic polarization test in 3.5 wt.% nacl solution. the results demonstrated that ...

roy adaptation model in hemodialysis patients: a mixed method research hassani p[1]*, otaghi m[2] received: 17 may, 2012 accepted: 13aug, 2012 abstractbackground & aims: ram is used in ersd patients. nurses play important role in their adaptation. the goal of the study is to explain the adaptive and ineffective responses of hemodialysis patients based on ram in qualitative part, and to compare ...

In this article the nonlinear mixed Volterra-Fredholm integral equations are investigated by means of the modied three-dimensional block-pulse functions (M3D-BFs). This method converts the nonlinear mixed Volterra-Fredholm integral equations into a nonlinear system of algebraic equations. The illustrative   examples are provided to demonstrate the applicability and simplicity of our   scheme.    

the objective of the present study was to determine factors affecting body condition score (bcs) and its association with productive and reproductive performances in holstein cows. mixed model analysis was performed on monthly records of bcs from april 2006 to july 2012 comprising 34666 records from 3134 dairy cows in a large commercial dairy herd under arid climatic conditions of isfahan in ir...

We are investigating unsupervised phone modeling. This paper describes a derivation method of VQ codebook sequences of variable length segments from spoken word samples, and also describes evaluation results by applying the method to mixed-lingual speech recognition tasks which include non-native speakers. The VQ codebook is generated based on a piecewise linear segmentation method which includ...