In this study, small fraction of NiTi (5 wt%) was added to Yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) top coat to improve it sliding wear resistance. The measurement of width of wear tracks after wear tests under a 15 N load for 100 m sliding distances showed that the width of wear track in NiTi-YSZ coating is shorter than that in YSZ coating which depicts the higher wear resistance of NiTi-YSZ coa...

To better understand the numerous solutions related to watershed transform (WT), this paper shows the relationships between some discrete definitions of the WT: the watersheds based on image foresting transform (IFT), topographic distance (TD), local condition (LC), and minimum spanning forest (MSF). We demonstrate that the tie-zone (TZ) concept, that unifies the multiple solutions of a given W...

To better understand the numerous solutions related to watershed transform (WT), this paper shows the relationships between some discrete de nitions of the WT: the watersheds based on image foresting transform (IFT), topographic distance (TD), local condition (LC), and minimum spanning forest (MSF). We demonstrate that the tie-zone (TZ) concept, that uni es the multiple solutions of a given WT,...

Endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) is pivotal in regulating mitochondrial O(2) consumption (Vo(2)) and glucose uptake in mice. The aim of this study was to investigate the mechanism of age- and genotype-related exercise limitation in male endothelial NO synthase (eNOS)-knockout (KO, n = 16) and wild-type (WT, n = 19) mice. Treadmill testing was performed at 12, 14, 16, 18, and 21 mo of age. ...

To validate our edge selection strategy, we present here the rate distortion curves obtained using different edge selection metrics: Hausdorff distance wgc, texture seam deviation wt and the combination that we propose wgc + wt . We use the multiscale SSIM metric presented in the paper to evaluate the quality of the obtained levels of detail (the texture map is kept in its highest resolution fo...

Grafting in species other than Arabidopsis has generated persuasive evidence for long-distance signals involved in many plant processes, including regulation of flowering time and shoot branching. Hitherto, such approaches in Arabidopsis have been hampered by the lack of suitable grafting techniques. Here, a range of micrografting methods for young Arabidopsis seedlings are described. The simpl...

A database of wideband acoustic emission (AE) modeled signals was used in Part 1 to examine the application of a wavelet transform (WT) to identify AE sources. The AE signals in the database were created by use of a validated three-dimensional finite element code. These signals represented the out-of-plane displacements from buried dipole sources in aluminum plates 4.7 mm thick and of small and...