OBJECT This 2-year experimental study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of a bioactive three-dimensional (3D) fabric disc for lumbar intervertebral disc replacement. The authors used a bioresorbable spinal fixation rod consisting of a forged composite of particulate unsintered hydroxyapatite/poly-L-lactide acid (HA/PLLA) for stability augmentation. The biomechanical and histological alt...

House flies and stable flies were collected on a Florida dairy farm using a commercial Alsynite sticky cylinder trap that was either used alone or covered with white, blue, or black outdoor awning fabric. Collections of both species of flies were highest on exposed Alsynite (house flies, 506.2 flies/day; stable flies, 19.1) followed by blue fabric (house flies, 308.1 flies/day; stable flies 12....

Effect of various washing process on the properties of indigo dyed four-way stretch denim fabric was studied in this research. The different washing techniques (Dark washenzymatic treatment, Medium washenzymatic treatment with pumice stone, Bleach washenzymatic treatment with bleaching powder and pumice stone, Acid Wash-Enzymatic treatment with potassium permanganate and pumice stone) were appl...

This paper introduces a new polymorphous computing Fabric well suited to DSP and Image Processing and describes its implementation on a Configurable System on a Chip (CSOC). The architecture is highly parameterized and enables customization of the synthesized Fabric to achieve high performance for a specific class of application. For this reason it can be considered to be a generic model for ha...

The digital capture and management of primary field observations has expanded the potential to represent site-specific geological information in a more intuitive manner, ultimately optimizing the interpretation of map-related geological field observations. In structural mapping, for example, the geometry and kinematics of large-scale structures needs to be reconstructed from local measurements ...

Despite the success of CNNs, selecting the optimal architecture for a given task remains an open problem. Instead of aiming to select a single optimal architecture, we propose a “fabric” that embeds an exponentially large number of architectures. The fabric consists of a 3D trellis that connects response maps at different layers, scales, and channels with a sparse homogeneous local connectivity...

A 0.5 Vrms, 12 W wirelessly powered patch type fabric sensor is presented for wearable body sensor network to continuously monitor personal bioelectric signals. Thick film electrodes are screen printed on the fabric with various metal components and their impedances of ~100k are characterized. A 2-stage nested chopped analog readout front end (AFE) is optimized for the fabric sensor with reduce...

We define a security model for FPGAs that provides virtualization and sharing of the reconfigurable fabric. The approach is to encapsulate the reconfigurable fabric within the context of a standard OS process, separated from the security-sensitive resources iff the process is a user-mode one. The key elements of the model are the software application loader and the physical interface between th...

Heat and mass transfer in a permeable fabric system used for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was investigated using hot air jet impingement conditions to mimic the jet exhaust of Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft. The STOVL aircraft uses a thrust-vectoring nozzle of the jet engine and a lift fan in order to vertically land and take off a short runaway. The jet engine exha...

I N T R O D U C T I O N The overall quality of a fabric is dependent on a number of factors, including tensile strength, shrinkage, abrasion resistance, and fabric construction. Also among these is the fabric’s tendency to wrinkle after home laundering – referred to as smoothness. The protocol for ascertaining smoothness grade of a fabric is outlined in the American Association of Textile Chemi...