Chemical strengthening via ion exchange, thermal tempering, and lamination are proven techniques for the strengthening of oxide glasses. For each of these techniques, the strengthening mechanism is conventionally ascribed to the linear superposition of the compressive stress (CS) profile on the glass surface. However, in this work, we use molecular dynamics simulations to reveal the underlying ...

Although tremendous progress has been made in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), with few exceptions they are fabricated in the standard way by sequentially depositing active layers and electrodes onto a substrate. Here we describe a different approach for building OLEDs, which is based on physical lamination of thin metal electrodes supported by an elastomeric layer against an electrolumin...

The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of catarrhine primates - with the exception of gibbons - is typically described as a 6-layered structure, comprised of 2 ventral magnocellular layers, and 4 dorsal parvocellular layers. The parvocellular layers of the LGN are involved in color vision. Therefore, it is hypothesized that a 6-layered LGN is a shared-derived trait among catarrhines. This might s...

PURPOSE To determine whether microscopic cortical lamination defects in patients with infantile spasms, not initially identifiable on MR, may be inferred from evolving changes in the adjacent white matter. METHODS Three infants between 3 and 6 months of age presented with infantile spasms. Based on negative metabolic assessment and normal MR findings, they were classified as cryptogenic. Desp...

The framework of aane and hyperbolic laminations provides a unifying foundation for many aspects of conformal dynamics and hyperbolic geometry. The central objects of this approach are an aane Riemann surface lamination A and the associated hyperbolic 3-lamination H endowed with an action of a discrete group of iso-morphisms. This action is properly discontinuous on H, which allows one to pass ...

One of Thurston’s important contributions to surface theory is his construction of measured lamination spaces. These spaces originally arose because their projectivizations form natural boundaries for Teichmüller spaces, but they are also of interest purely topologically. For example, they provide a nice global framework in which to view all the isotopy classes of simple closed curves in a surf...

Exposure to isocyanates can be harmful to workers by causing different disorders of the airways. The main objectives of this study were to survey the personal 8 h time-weighted average exposure to isocyanates at 13 Swedish plants that handled either polyurethane, diisocyanates or both, including four types of manufacturing processes: moulding, continuous foaming, flame lamination and low or no ...

We construct Colding-Minicozzi limit minimal laminations in open domains in R with the singular set of C-convergence being any properly embedded C-curve. By Meeks’ C-regularity theorem, the singular set of convergence of a Colding-Minicozzi limit minimal lamination L is a locally finite collection S(L) of C-curves that are orthogonal to the leaves of the lamination. Thus, our existence theorem ...