A micro-level agent-based model of innovation diffusion was developed that explicitly combines (a) an individual's perception of the advantages or relative utility derived from adoption, and (b) social influence from members of the individual's social network. The micro-model was used to simulate macro-level diffusion patterns emerging from different configurations of micro-model parameters. Mi...

background: wide range of disorders ranging from genetic disorders to coital difficulties can influence male fertility. in this regard, genetic factors are highlighted as the most frequent, contributed to 10-15%, of male infertility causes. objective: to investigate the influence of genetic abnormalities on semen quality and reproductive hormone levels of infertile men from northeast china. mat...

In the manufacturing of micro/nanocomposite materials, micro/nanoparticles need to be dispersed evenly into the base materials. However, due to their high surface-to-volume ratio and high surface energy, the micro/nanoparticles tend to agglomerate and cluster together. Ultrasonic cavitation is effective to disperse micro/nanoparticles. However, works on correlating the cavitation parameters wit...

This paper explores the use of micro-prosody in improving the quality of synthesised speech in concatenated text to speech synthesis (TTS) systems. Micro-prosody are defined as prosodic signals within context-dependent triphone units and across neighbouring triphones. Micro-prosody parameters are modelled using a Markovian model whose state distributions depend on the current linguistic-prosodi...

PURPOSE The measurement reproducibility of the third generation of commercial optical coherence tomography, OCT-3 (StratusOCT, software ver. A2, Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc., Dublin, CA) was investigated. The nerve fiber layer (NFL) thickness, macula thickness map, and optic nerve head (ONH) parameters in normal eyes were studied. METHODS Ten normal subjects were imaged six times (three before and...

Thermo-elastic damping is a significant dissipation mechanism in high quality factor microstructures. In this paper, thermo-elastic damping of the in-plane vibration of fully clamped rectangular micro-plates has been studied. The governing equation of the micro-plate motion and heat conduction equation were derived. Then, The Galerkin method has been used to solve the coupled heat-displacement ...

During the micro-drilling process of stainless steel, the wear, fracture, and breakage of the micro-drill easily occur. Micro-drill geometry parameters have significant influence on the drilling performance of the micro-drill. Nowadays, the helical point micro-drill is proposed and its improved drilling performance is validated by some researchers. In this study, to analyze the effect of geomet...