in manufacturing industry, it has been acknowledged that tool wear prediction has an important role in higher quality of products and acceptable efficiency. being an emerging area of research in recent years, drilling tool wear is an important factor which directly affects quality parameters of machined hole such as hole centring, roundness, burr formation and finished surface. in this paper, t...

After total hip replacement, some cemented titanium stems show above-average early loosening rates. Increased release of wear particles and resulting reaction of the peri-prosthetic tissue were considered responsible. The objective was to develop a test method for analysing the abrasive wear behaviour of cemented stems and for generating wear particles at the interface with the bone cement. By ...

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of green marketing mix on sport wear consumer shopping behavior. Population for the study was professional athletes, Semi-Pro and Club consumers sport wear that due to extensive of operations community according to the Morgan table 386 people was conclude as the sample. Research tool was a sport green marketing questionnaire whit four items that...

OBJECTIVE To present a comprehensive review of current and historical literature on scleral lenses. METHODS A comprehensive search of several databases from each database's earliest inception to May 23, 2014 was conducted by an experienced librarian with input from the author to locate articles related to scleral lens design, fabrication, prescription, and management. RESULTS A total of 899...

NAND flash-based Solid State Devices (SSDs) offer the desirable features of high performance, energy efficiency, and fast growing capacity. Thus, the use of SSDs is increasing in distributed storage systems. A key obstacle in this context is that the natural unbalance in distributed I/O workloads can result in wear imbalance across the SSDs in a distributed setting. This, in turn can have signi...

Introduction: Polyethylene wear has been implicated in osteolysis and implant loosening. Most clinical studies use migration of the femoral head as an index of acetabular polyethylene wear, with the assumption that wear occurs in a single direction. A recent retrieval study, however, demonstrated evidence of multiple wear (deformation) vectors in acetabular components in which the liner was not...

background: the interim restorative materials should have certain mechanical properties to withstand in oral cavity. the aim of this study was to evaluate the hardness and wear resistance ofinterim restorative materials. materials and methods: fifteen identical rectangular shape specimens with dimensions of 2 mm × 10 mm × 30 mm were made from 7 interim materials (tempspan, protemp 3 garant, rev...

One of the major reasons for failure after total joint arthroplasty is aseptic loosening of the implant. At articulating surfaces, defined as the interface between implant and surrounding bone cement, wear particles can be generated and released into the periprosthetic tissue, resulting in inflammation and osteolysis. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the extent to which osteoblasts ...

Chemical deterioration of teeth is common among modern humans, and has been suggested for some extinct primates. Dental erosion caused by acidic foods may also obscure microwear signals of mechanical food properties. Ring-tailed lemurs at the Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve (BMSR), Madagascar, display frequent severe tooth wear and subsequent tooth loss. In contrast, sympatric Verreaux's sifaka d...