The question of whether impact basins dating from the time of heavy bombardment of the inner solar system are preserved on the surface of Venus is of paramount importance for an understanding of the geological processes that have shaped that planet. Two types of features have been suggested as candidates for impact basins on Venus: (1) large, quasi-circular topographic depressions and (2) large...

this paper presents a new method called vespiary regular hexagonal (vrh) model to calculate parasitic capacitance between conductor wire filaments of one turn of a coil and between conductor wires filament and liner and also total capacitance of n-turns having single-layers, multi-conductor wire filaments of the helix magneto cumulative generator (mcg) coil. the presented method is an analytica...

In this paper, we present a technique for the deposition of inks, toners, organic polymers, fuels, small solid particles, biological and chemical fluids, using a fluid ejector. The ejector design is based on a flextensional transducer that excites the axisymmetric resonant modes of a clamped circular plate. It is constructed by depositing a thin piezoelectric annular plate onto a thin, edge cla...

During traditional acupuncture, fine needles are inserted subcutaneously and rotated, which causes loose fascial tissue to wind around the needle. This coupling is stronger at acupuncture points, which tend to fall above intermuscular fascial planes, than control points, which lay above skeletal muscle. These different anatomical constraints may affect the mechanical coupling. Fascia at acupunc...

The classification of various document images is considered an important step towards building a modern digital library or office automation system. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifiers trained with backpropagation are considered to be the current state of the art model for this task. However, there are two major drawbacks for these classifiers: the huge computational power demand for...

Nucleic acid amplification is a hugely important technology for biology and medicine. While the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been highly useful and effective, its reliance on heating and cooling cycles places some constraints on its utility. For example, the heating step of PCR can destroy biological molecules under investigation and heat/cool cycles are not applicable in living systems....

shape is regarded as one of outward characteristics of islamic seals. this characteristic, which is part of common traits of all different areas of seal studies, could be defined as framework of circumference of seals impression on written materials and documents, which in fact results from the shape of seals surfaces. shape has been considered as one of the ways of recognizing the administrati...

conclusions primary scec is a rare and highly aggressive tumor. however, prognosis is poor and long-term survival is exceptional. crt could be an appropriate alternative to operation. patients and methods this brief report was carried out by reviewing the medical records of 22 patients with newly histologically proven scec that were treated between 2000 and 2010 at 2 tertiary academic hospitals...