Prestressed segmental precast (PC) piers, with insufficient energy dissipation capacity, are seldomly adopted on bridges in seismic areas. To improve the performance of PC this study proposes a functional separation isolation device (FSID), serving as supplementary replaceable device. Full-scale field load tests real-world pier were carried out to qualify type piers. Based results and numerical...

Magnetic nanoparticles separation technology is a method for quick and easy extraction biomolecules such as proteins, DNA and RNA. The present work describes total RNA isolation procedure from transformed rose petals in our laboratory using magnetic nanoparticles as a solid phase absorbant. Petals are the main sources of secondary metabolites, i.e. carotenoids, anthocyanins, flavonoids and phen...

iii Acknowledgements iv Abstract CMOS technology scaling in recent decades has enabled a phenomenal performance improvement in microprocessors by allowing designers to increase the level of integration at higher clock frequencies. Unfortunately, technology scaling has also created unprecedented design challenges, including, but not limited to, the devices' leakage current, the interconnect dela...

This paper discusses the vibration isolation problem as it applies to spaceborne interferometers, and presents evidence that vibration isolation will be a required technology fol these instruments. A hardware solution to the spaceborne interferometer isolation problem is offered with experimental evidence of its effectiveness.

Deep Trench technology for CMOS image sensor was successfully developed and industrialized for bestin-class 1.4μm pixel Front-Side Illumination (FSI) technology. The performance achievements on QE both on and off-axis without any degradation of other pixel parameters show the need of a perfect pixel isolation for better color fidelity. Comparison with other pixel isolation architectures show th...

Large-scale data centers leverage virtualization technology to achieve excellent resource utilization, scalability and high availability. Although virtualization technology has the advantages such as fault isolation, environmental isolation and security isolation, current virtualization techniques do not have effective performance isolation among virtual machines. The hidden resource competitio...

Natural-based drugs are the important bioactive substances that have been used for prevention and treatment of diseases. Natural products should be prepared in commercial scale from relevant medicinal plants. Hence, large amounts of the plants have been needed for extraction and isolation of compounds of natural origin. Plant cells technology is the best strategy for the production of the plant...