Research into moral decision-making has been dominated by sacrificial dilemmas where, in order to save several lives, it is necessary to sacrifice the life of another person. It is widely assumed that these dilemmas draw a sharp contrast between utilitarian and deontological approaches to morality, and thereby enable us to study the psychological and neural basis of utilitarian judgment. Howeve...

We propose and demonstrate a new fabrication process of a microchannel using the Damascene process. This process aims to integrate photonic circuits with microchannels fabricated in a glass film. The microchannel is fabricated by the removal of the sacrificial layer after a sacrificial layer is formed by the Damascene process and the cover is formed by sputter deposition. A thin cover layer can...

This paper presents a successful method for releasing high aspect ratio SU-8 micro-structures by the use of positive photoresist (AZ 4620) as sacrificial layer. The AZ 4620 photoresist sacrificial layer was dissolved by the SU-8 developer (propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate). Thus, this process reduces the need for complex microfabrication steps and equipments which are otherwise require...

Although computer-aided design and manufacture techniques have shown some promising applications in the fabrication of crowns, inlays, and maxillofacial and oral surgery, the field of removable prosthodontics has not embraced these technologies so far. This article describes the development and investigation of computer-aided techniques that may eventually enable prosthodontic procedures such a...

aluminum anodes have been widely used in the cathodic protection of marine structures. however there are conditions in which these anodes become passivated or face some localized or unwanted corrosion, which influences their efficiency. addition of alloying elements such as zn and in not only have improved the efficiency of the anodes but also the effect of casting parameters such as ultra melt...

Using the cavity method we consider the learning of noisy teachergenerated examples by a nonlinear student perceptron. For insufficient examples and weak weight decay, the activation distribution of the training examples exhibits a gap for the more difficult examples. This illustrates that the outliers are sacrificed for the overall performance. Simulation shows that the picture of the smooth e...

Porous alumina was prepared via a sacrificial template method using as the matrix and starch carbon fibers pore-forming agents. After sintering, no residual agents were present. The density, porosity, pore structure of samples measured Archimedes’ mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP). results showed that size distribution porous double-peak when content agent 20, 30, or 50 vol.%, but single-peak...

agent technology is an emerging and promising research area in software technology, which increasingly contributes to the development of value-added information systems for large healthcare organizations due to its capability to automatically modify themselves in response to changes in their operating environment. multi agent system (mas) approach is the construction of a complex system as a se...