Rapid advances in wireless networking have led to more mobile phones, PDAs, and other digital mobile devices becoming ubiquitously connected to the Internet. As the demand of delay sensitive real-time applications for these portable devices increases, providing seamless connectivity to wireless networks becomes a critical issue. For this reason, a number of micro-mobility protocols, such as Cel...

It is well known that semi-solid forming could only obtain coarse-grained microstructure in a few alloy systems with a low melting point, such as aluminum and magnesium alloys. This work presents that semi-solid forming could also produce novel bimodal microstructure composed of nanostructured matrix and micro-sized (CoFe)Ti2 twins in a titanium alloy, Ti62Nb12.2Fe13.6Co6.4Al5.8. The semi-solid...

1.1 Micro injection molding process Since end of 60s’ last century, with the booming of the semi-conductive materials processing technologies related to IC (Integrated Circuits) industry, parts or components in micro-scale which is hard to see with naked eyes stepped into the attention of scientists. Thereafter, the various functional micro systems were rapidly widely used in different areas, s...

Micro-mobility protocols have been proposed to provide seamless local mobility support. This paper focuses on the performance of the handoff schemes of two candidates for micro-mobility protocols, namely HAWAII and Cellular IP. For each handoff scheme, a simple analytical model is developed for the evaluation of two characteristic performance measures: the packet loss probability during handoff...

Semi-solid materials undergo strain localization and shear band formation as a result of granular nature of semi-solid deformation. In the present study, to analyze the shear localization, a unified viscoplastic constitutive model was developed for the homogeneous flow. Then, a linearized analysis of the stability performed by examining the necessary condition for the perturbation growth. For t...

The arsenic (As) solid-state speciation (i.e., oxidation state, precipitates, and adsorption complexes) is one of the most important factors controlling dissolved As concentrations at As contaminated sites. In this case study, two representative subsurface samples (i.e., oxidized and semi-reduced sites) from former lead arsenate contaminated soils in the northeastern United States were chosen t...

The rapid semi-micro determination of carbon by wet combustion of organic compounds (Van Slyke & Folch, 1940) has been subjected to various modifications, principally in the apparatus used (McCready & Hassid, 1942; Hockenhull, 1950). The apparatus is shown in Fig. 1, and is essentially that described by Hockenhull (1946; and personal communication), using the spiral bubbler modified from that o...

We report a proof-of-principle for the use of micro-devices as continuous bioreactors for the production of monoclonal antibodies. We culture CHO cells on the surface of PMMA "zigzag" channels textured with semi-spherical cavities coated with fibronectin, observing steady-state productivities 100 times higher than those observed in full scale systems.