In cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanical stimulation of tissue-engineered constructs is known to improve tissue properties. During tissue culture, the mechanical properties of the tissue construct change. To impose a predefined deformation protocol and to avoid negative effects of excessive strain, it is desired to monitor and control deformations during load application. In a previous ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper was to determine the amount of deformation in four commercial brands of nickel-titanium closed springs. METHODS A total of 130 springs were divided into 13 subgroups, according to their features and manufacturers (Morelli, Orthometric, Ormco and GAC) and activated from 100% to 1000% of the effective length of the nickel-titanium portion present at the spring, a...

This paper investigate the impact of packet size on the performance of 802.15.4 for Wireless Sensor Network based on various packet size scenario like packet size 300, 600 and 900.The comparative results have been reported for the performance metrics like Battery energy consumed, Traffic sink end to end delay and Traffic received. Packet size optimization is an important issue in energy constra...

Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ, USA {hwang,[email protected]} Abstract. We study the privacy threat by publishing data that contains full functional dependencies (FFDs). We show that the cross-attribute correlations by FFDs can bring potential vulnerability to privacy. Unfortunately, none of the existing anonymization principles can effectively prevent against the FFD-based priv...

exp(2 i( p 1 i ) are the eigenvalues of the Milnor monodromy and their integral part is determined by the Hodge ltration of the mixed Hodge structure. This notion was rst introduced by Steenbrink [11]. By [14] the exponents are constant under -constant deformation of f . In particular, they depend only on f 1 (0). They express the vanishing order (up to the shift by one) of the period integrals...

Coseismic surface deformation in large earthquakes is typically measured using field mapping and with a range of geodetic methods (e.g., InSAR, lidar differencing, and GPS). Current methods, however, either fail to capture patterns of near-field coseismic surface deformation or lack preevent data. Consequently, the characteristics of off-fault deformation and the parameters that control it rema...

The normal red blood cell (RBC) membrane is remarkable for its durability (eg, preservation of permeability barrier function) despite its need to remain deformable for the benefit of microvascular blood flow. Yet, it may be hypothesized that the membrane's tolerance of deformation might be compromised under certain pathologic conditions. We studied this by subjecting normal RBC in viscous suspe...

determination of the deformation length is one of the first steps in roll forming design. roll forming industries are very interested in explicit simple relationsfor prediction the deformation length without using trail-and-error methods at workshop or time consuming finite element simulations. in this paper, elastic properties and work-hardening behaviour of the strip are considered in additio...

In th i s paper we present a novel improvement to existing schemes for a b r u p t shot change detection. Existing schemes declare a shot change whenever t h e f rame to f rame histogram difference (FFD) value is above a particular threshold. In such a n approach, a high value for t h e threshold results in a small number of false a larms a n d a large number of missed detections while a low va...