The estimation of temperature-dependent thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) of graphene is quite challenging. There exist significant disagreements within theoretical calculations and equally with the experimental estimates of this quantity, both with reference to the magnitude and sign of the TEC. The difficulty in the estimation broadly arises from the fact that not only can graphene expand o...

to perform stability analysis and study g*e interaction, eight commercial sugar beet varieties were evaluated in eight major sugar beet producing areas of karaj, mashad, miandoab, esfahan, shiraz, kermanshah, moghan and hamadan in three years using a randomized complete block design with four replications. the evaluated varieties were br1, 7233, pp.8, ic, 7233-p29, pp22, h5505 and 41rt. having ...

Unconfined compression tests are more convenient to perform on cylindrical samples of brain tissue than tensile tests in order to estimate mechanical properties of the brain tissue because they allow homogeneous deformations. The reliability of these tests depends significantly on the amount of friction generated at the specimen/platen interface. Thus, there is a crucial need to find an approxi...

Article history: Received: 27.10.2014. Received in revised form: 11.12.2014. Accepted: 12.12.2014. Electrochemical machining (ECM), is an advanced manufacturing technique capable of machining hard composite materials with good tolerance. However, the huge investment and operating costs make the ECM process uneconomical. This work is hence intended to develop cost-tolerance relationship for ECM ...

Leaf area index (LAI) and water content (WC) in the root zone are two major hydro-meteorological parameters that exhibit a dominant control on water, energy and carbon fluxes, and are therefore important for any regional eco-hydrological or climatological study. To investigate the potential for retrieving these parameter from hyperspectral remote sensing, we have investigated plant spectral ref...

Monitoring surface albedo at medium-to-fine resolution (<100 m) has become increasingly important for medium-to-fine scale applications and coarse-resolution data evaluation. This paper presents a method for estimating surface albedo directly using top-of-atmosphere reflectance. This is the first attempt to derive surface albedo for both snow-free and snow-covered conditions from medium-resolut...