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Jan Tomastik, Radim Ctvrtlik, Martin Drab and Jan Manak
The scratch test, as probably the most widespread technique for assessment of the adhesive/cohesive properties of a film–substrate system, fully depends on reliable evaluation based on assessment of critical loads for systems’ failures. Tradi...
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Masatsugu Hirota, Chihiro Mochizuki, Mitsunobu Sato and Tohru Hayakawa
The influence of heating conditions, heating temperature, and heating time on the formation of a thin carbonate-containing hydroxyapatite (CA) film onto partially stabilized zirconia using a molecular precursor method was evaluated. The molecular precurs...
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Hoe-Kun Kim, Sung-Min Kim and Sang-Yul Lee
The CrZrN/CrZrSiN multilayer coatings at a bilayer period range decreasing from 1.35 µm to 0.45 µm were synthesized on a Si (100) wafer and WC-6 wt.% Co substrate using a closed-field unbalanced magnetron sputter, and the thickness effects on the mechani...
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Jinquan Sun, Dongrui Wang, Jie Yang, Fujie Li, Lingli Zuo, Feng Ge and Yunbo Chen
In order to solve the failure problem between the crankshaft and the connecting rod friction pair, nano-Cu/microalloyed gradient coating was prepared on the surface of the crankshaft by in situ gaseous nitriding process. Electron probe analysis confirmed...
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Shahereen Chowdhury, Bipasha Bose, Kenji Yamamoto and Stephen C. Veldhuis
The TiAlCrSiYN-based family of physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings were systematically designed through the incorporation of TiAlCrN interlayer to increase coating adhesion and consequently the tool life for extreme conditions that arise during dry ...
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Dong-Min Kim, In-Ho Song, Ju-Young Choi, Seung-Won Jin, Kyeong-Nam Nam and Chan-Moon Chung
Linseed oil undergoes an oxidative drying reaction upon exposure to air, resulting in a soft film. The reaction conversion after 48 h reached 88% and 59% when it reacted at room temperature and −20 °C, respectively. Linseed-oil-loaded microcaps...
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Henry Dempwolf, Matthias Proft, Axel Baumann, Sinah Malz and Olaf Keßler
Titanium-based nitride physical vapour deposition (PVD) coatings, such as titanium nitride (TiN), are state-of-the-art solutions for surface modifications of CoCrMo-based implants for patients who are hypersensitive to metallic ions such as cobalt, chrom...
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Alexey O. Volkhonsky, Igor V. Blinkov and Dmitry S. Belov
The influence of the compressive and tensile stresses forming in the nanostructured Ti?Al?N coatings during deposition on their physical-mechanical properties was studied. The modifying influence of metal components (Ni and Cu) introduction into Ti?Al?N ...
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Kyotaro Kawaguchi, Masahiro Iijima, Kazuhiko Endo and Itaru Mizoguchi
This study investigated the surface modification of orthodontic stainless steel using electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of bioactive glass (BG). The BG coatings were characterized by spectrophotometry, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X...
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Vadzim Chayeuski, Abdelhafed Taleb, Valery Zhylinski, Andrei Kuleshov and Roman Shtempliuk
This paper presents the results of a study on the preparation and characterization of a Cr-DND/MoN detonation chromium-nanodiamond coating deposited on cemented tungsten carbide (WC?3 wt.% Co) mill blades using Arc-PVD and electrodeposition methods. The ...
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Achmad Lukman and Chuan-Kai Yang
Knowledge transfer has become very popular in recent years, and it is either based on a one-way transfer method used with knowledge distillation or based on a two-way knowledge transfer implemented by deep mutual learning, while both of them adopt a teac...
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Chunxian Wang, Xiaoxing Wang, Yiwen Wang, Shengchao Hu, Hongyang Chen, Xuehai Gu, Junchi Yan and Tao He
Neural architecture search (NAS) is a popular branch of automatic machine learning (AutoML), which aims to search for efficient network structures. Many prior works have explored a wide range of search algorithms for classification tasks, and have achiev...
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Alexandra M. Afonso, Joana Gonçalves, Ângelo Luís, Eugenia Gallardo and Ana Paula Duarte
Honey and propolis are natural substances produced by Apis mellifera that contain flavonoids, phenolic acids, and several other phytochemicals. The aim of this study was to phytochemically characterize three different types of honey and propolis, both se...
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Luca Pasqualini and Maurizio Parton
A Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) is any algorithm generating a sequence of numbers approximating properties of random numbers. These numbers are widely employed in mid-level cryptography and in software applications. Test suites are used to evalua...
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Carlos S. C. Teixeira, Joss Moorkens, Daniel Turner, Joris Vreeke and Andy Way
Commercial software tools for translation have, until now, been based on the traditional input modes of keyboard and mouse, latterly with a small amount of speech recognition input becoming popular. In order to test whether a greater variety of input mod...
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Shahereen Chowdhury, Ben D. Beake, Kenji Yamamoto, Bipasha Bose, Myriam Aguirre, German S. Fox-Rabinovich and Stephen C. Veldhuis
The TiAlCrSiYN-based family of PVD (physical vapor deposition) hard coatings was specially designed for extreme conditions involving the dry ultra-performance machining of hardened tool steels. However, there is a strong potential for further advances in...
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Parnia Navabpour, Kevin Cooke and Hailin Sun
Mechanically robust photocatalytic titanium oxide coatings can be deposited using reactive magnetron sputtering. In this article, we investigate the effect of doping on the activity of reactively sputtered TiO2. Silver, copper and stainless steel targets...
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Parnia Navabpour, Kevin Cooke and Hailin Sun
Mechanically robust photocatalytic titanium oxide coatings can be deposited using reactive magnetron sputtering. In this article, we investigate the effect of doping on the activity of reactively sputtered TiO2. Silver, copper and stainless steel targets...
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Alexander Koutamanis
Planning regulations determine a substantial part of buildings, but their constraints are usually not included in the setup of a BIM model or used explicitly for design guidance, but only tested in compliance checks once a model has been made. This is sy...
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Emilio Jofré-Saldía, Álvaro Villalobos-Gorigoitía, Cristián Cofré-Bolados, Gerson Ferrari and Gemma María Gea-García
Objective: To evaluate the effect of a multicomponent progressive training program (MPTP) on functionality, quality of life (QoL) and motivation to exercise (EM) in a group of older adults (OA) of a community. Methods: A total of 55 participants of 69.42...
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