This paper summarizes an experimental program supported by an analytical modeling study undertaken to investigate the bond behavior of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials used for strengthening steel structures. The experimental program consisted of three double-lap shear coupon tests and five large-scale beam tests. Different methods to reduce the bond stress concentrations near t...

Aortic smooth muscle cells (SMCs) have been proposed to derive from lateral plate mesoderm. It has further been suggested that induction of SMC differentiation is confined to the ventral side of the aorta, and that SMCs later migrate to the dorsal side. In this study, we investigate the origin of SMCs in the descending aorta using recombination-based lineage tracing in mice. Hoxb6-cre transgeni...

Hiroyuki HAMAGUCHI, Kazuhiko GOTO, and Ziro SUZUKI Geophysical Institute, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (Received December 20, 1983) Recent seismic studies using a high-gain seismograph network have demonstrated the existence of a double-planed seismic zone in the descending plate beneath island arcs such as northeastern Japan, Kurile, and Central Aleutian. Several hypoth...

In India, the vehicles sometimes bare extra textual region like signs, symbols, name of the owner, wellliked sayings and ad boards to the license plate. Situation demands for accurate recognition of text class and fine aspect ratio analysis. Along with this extra care taken up in this manuscript to extract license plate of vehicles i.e, twowheeler such as motorcycle or scooter (size of plate is...

BACKGROUND Complex proximal humerus fractures with metaphyseal comminution remain challenging regarding reduction and stability. In most fracture patterns the hard bone of the bicipital groove remains intact. In this case series, we describe a novel technique of hybrid double plate osteosynthesis of complex proximal humerus fractures with metaphyseal comminution. METHODS In randomly chosen sh...

Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system for vehicles is a challenging area of research due to its importance to a wide range of commercial applications. The first and the most important stage for any ALPR system is the localization of the license plate within the image captured by a camera. In this paper proposed approach is present. It has considered the Indian number plates, where r...

This paper presents analytical and numerical studies demonstrating that a perfectly conducting metallic plate perforated by a periodic array of subwavelength holes and sandwiched in between two dielectric slabs permits enhanced transmission of electromagnetic plane waves in both the optical and microwave regimes, and this for both transverse magnetically and electrically polarized fields. The e...

The growth plate lacks vascular tissues and is solely composed of chondrocytes. The growth plate is composed of three layers, i.e., the resting, proliferating and hyper-trophic chondrocyte layers. The chon-drocytes in the resting and proliferating layers proliferate and then they uniformly maturate toward the diaphysis to become hypertrophic chondrocytes, which lose the ability to proliferate. ...

Recently, corrugated steel plate shear walls have been shown to be an efficient lateral force resisting system for building structures. Corrugated plates higher out-of-plane stiffness and improved buckling stability in comparison with flat which result hysteretic behavior. However, the thickness of may limited due cold-form process restrictions. This paper investigates cyclic performance double...