Printed Circuit Board layout involves the skillful placement of the required components in order to facilitate the routing process and minimize or satisfy size constraints. In this paper, we present the application to this problem of a general system, which is able to combine knowledge-based and search-based solving and which has a meta-level layer to control it's reasoning. Results have shown ...

The effect of Birth Order on Personality has remained a debated research topic with studies favouring and not favouring the possible impacts. While there has been substantial research separately on Birth Order and Psychological Well-Being (PWB) scarcely can we find studies relating Birth Orders with various sub-scales of PWB.The present study was thus conducted amongst students of Mysore (n=273...

Printed circuit board design complexity increases greatly as bus speeds exceed 100 MHz. This increased complexity is due more to the large number of simulations a designer must complete rather than simulation or modeling accuracy. This paper presents the case for these increased numbers of simulations, and presents techniques for managing this complexity.

Copy toner samples were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy with X-ray dispersive analysis (SEM-EDX) and pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). Principal component and cluster analysis of SEM data for 166 copy toner samples established 13 statistically different subgroups, with the presence or absence of a ferrite base being a major division. When toners were compare...

Quartz tuning forks are extremely good resonators and their use is growing in scanning probe microscopy. Nevertheless, only a few studies on soft biological samples have been reported using these probes. In this work, we present the methodology to develop and use these nanosensors to properly work with biological samples. The working principles, fabrication and experimental setup are presented....

The aim of this study is the evaluation powder injection molding (PIM) binder compositions for material extrusion (MEX) additive manufacturing zirconia parts. Four commercial PIM were selected and mixed with 45 vol% yttria-stabilized powder. Due to brittle characteristic obtained ceramic feedstocks, a screw based pellet printing head was used dense structures. To compare 3D performance, additio...

Unmodified polyvinyl chloride (PVC) has low thermal stability and high hardness. Therefore, using plasticizers as well stabilizers is inevitable, while it causes serious environmental health issues. In this work, for the first time, pure food-grade PVC with potential biomedical applications processed 3D printed. Samples are successfully printed different printing parameters, including velocity,...