Home Plate is a layered plateau in Gusev crater on Mars. It is composed of clastic rocks of moderately altered alkali basalt composition, enriched in some highly volatile elements. A coarsegrained lower unit lies under a finer-grained upper unit. Textural observations indicate that the lower strata were emplaced in an explosive event, and geochemical considerations favor an explosive volcanic o...

The Bi4Ti3O12 powders were synthesized by a hydrothermal route. The influence of hydrothermal conditions on crystal structures and morphologies of Bi4Ti3O12 particles was studied. The as-prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fourier transform infrared (FT–IR) spectroscopy and ultraviolet visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy. These results r...

To attempt to explain the very strange claim of observation by Mitsubishi group on the mass-8-andcharge -4-transferred (increased) transmutation (Mo-96 or Pr-141) out of sample zone of Sr-88 or Cs-133 in the D-diffusion type experiment with multi-layered Pd plate, our multi-body deuteron fusion model in transient lattice focal points has been extended to hypothesize the occurrence of 4D tetrahe...

A compact low profile patch antenna for Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag for metallic applications is presented in this research study. By employing two gap-coupled C-shaped patches, wide half-power impedance bandwidth (RL ≥3 dB) of 152 MHz is achieved for universal application UHF (860-960 MHz) RFID. Moreover, the proposed patch antenna exhibits planar profi...

In this work we propose a new method titled "layered hydrospinning." In this method, nanofibers are being collected on top of a liquid reservoir and assembled layer-by-layer to form a 3D scaffold. The geometrical features of fabricated hydrospun scaffolds show a porosity of 99% and pores of a diameter over 100 microm. Cells were seeded during the hydrospinning process, thus achieving an initial...

We study the capabilities of two-layered perceptrons for classifying exactly a given subset. Both necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for subsets to be exactly classifiable with two-layered perceptrons that use the hard-limiting response function. The necessary conditions can be viewed as generalizations of the linear-separability condition of one-layered perceptrons and confirm the...

A hard sphere system confined between two parallel hard plates is investigated theoretically. Using extensive Monte Carlo computer simulations, the phase diagram is calculated for the whole range of densities and plate separations ranging from one to two particle diameters. There occurs a strong first-order fluid freezing transition and both very weak and strong discontinuous phase transitions ...

In recent years, there has been a lot of research in license plate recognition, and many license plate recognition systems have been proposed and used. In the past, the license plate recognition system was a key element in many applications such as traffic control and parking lots access control. In this article, the authors present current research in license plate recognition, and elaborate o...

[1] We investigate the physics of multiscale convection in Earth’s mantle, characterized by the coexistence of large-scale mantle circulation associated with plate tectonics and smallscale sublithospheric convection. In part 2 of our study, the temporal and spatial evolution of sublithospheric convection is studied using two-dimensional whole mantle convection models with temperatureand depth-d...

Analyses are given for two three-dimensional lattice systems: A system of close-packed dimers placed in layers of honeycomb lattices and a layered triangular-lattice interacting domain wall model, both with nontrivial interlayer interactions. We show that both models are equivalent to a five-vertex model on the square lattice with interlayer vertex-vertex interactions. Using the method of Bethe...