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Mild Steel Corrosion Inhibition by Benzotriazole in 0.5M Sulfuric Acid Solution on Rough and Smooth Surfaces
... Figure 4 shows nyquist diagram for rough and smooth specimens at different concentrations of BTA. Nyquist curves did not show ideal capacitive semicircle. An imperfect semicircles can be associated with the ...
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Generating Smooth Surfaces by Refinement of Curves
... necessarily smooth surfaces, but only proved to be 3D sets which retain important properties of the initial ...are surfaces, with H¨older continuous one side tangent, whenever the initial curves have ...
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The Mechanism by Which Aphids Adhere to Smooth Surfaces
... The logarithmw of the vertical force mg resisted y in relation to the logarithm^ of the body weight mg x for vetch aphids Megoura viciae on a glass and a silanized glass surface A and th[r] ...
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Heritable patterns of tooth decay in the permanent dentition: principal components and factor analyses
... ular surfaces, all other surfaces contribute similarly to PC1 (Figure 1B) representing a near-global pattern/ extent of ...of smooth surfaces and pit and fissure surfaces (Figure ...
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Numerical Analysis of the Boundary Effect of Radial Basis Functions in 3D Surface Reconstruction
... like Surfaces 5 and 6, the boundary performance can be significantly ...for surfaces with very steep boundaries which jump greatly in height, like Surfaces 3 and 4, the improvement will not be so ...
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Tarantulas cling to smooth vertical surfaces by secreting silk from their feet
... One of the main objections raised to the secretion of silk from the tarsus is a functional one: the silk-secreting nozzles would have to be below the surface of the scopula pad for the spider to adhere to the substrate ...
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Evidence for a sexually selected function of the attachment system in bedbugs Cimex lectularius (Heteroptera, Cimicidae)
... to surfaces is a major aspect of an animal ’ s interaction with the ...to smooth surfaces and analysing in situ fixed copulating pairs and the morphology of attachment devices, we show that: (i) ...
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Impact of different thickness of the smooth heated surface on flow boiling heat transfer
... The test section with a rectangular, vertically oriented, 1.7 mm deep, 16 mm wide and 180 mm long minichannel was the most important element of the experimental setup. Figure 2 shows the photograph of the test section. ...
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Performance and adaptive value of tarsal morphology in rove beetles of the genus Stenus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
... to smooth plant ...on smooth surfaces amount to 1–10 times their own body weights ...on smooth surfaces, such as glass or fresh leaves, only species with wide tarsi (subgenera ...
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Walking on smooth and rough ground: activity and timing of the claw retractor muscle in the beetle Pachnoda marginata peregrina (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
... To understand the functional mechanism of the tarsal attachment systems of insects, detailed knowledge about the involved devices and their morphology is important. Among these devices are attachment pads, which have ...
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Gutierrez, Cecilia (2008): DIFOTI (Digital Fiberoptic Transillumination): Validität In Vitro. Dissertation, LMU München: Medizinische Fakultät
... lingual surfaces and images the light emerging from the top of the tooth [Electro-Optical Sciences, ...and smooth surfaces [Electro-Optical Sciences, ...
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Ontogenesis of the attachment ability in the bug Coreus marginatus (Heteroptera, Insecta)
... of smooth flexible pulvilli adapted for attachment to relatively smooth surfaces, such as their host plant Rumex crispus ...on smooth surfaces at various stages of ...
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Preparation and Characterization of Keratin Blended Films using Biopolymers for Drug Controlled Release Application
... a smooth texture, as did the keratin/gelatin (KG) blend ...the smooth surfaces were found in all of blend ratios, but higher fragility was found for the KS 3 blend film with 2:1 K/S blend ...The ...
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Microtopography Attenuates Endothelial Cell Proliferation by Regulating MicroRNAs
... Endothelial cell (EC) morphology can be regulated by the micro/nano topo- graphy in engineered vascular grafts and by hemodynamic forces in the native blood vessels. However, how EC morphology affects miRNA and thus EC ...
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Indicators of propagation direction and relative depth in clastic injectites: Implications for laminar versus turbulent flow processes
... Blistered surfaces have dimples, bumps, and bulges with maximum diameters of 2 cm, whereas the larg- est clasts are up to 10 cm in long-axis length and 4 cm in diameter (see Appendix Table ...blistered ...
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Multi frame scene flow estimation using a patch model and smooth motion prior
... Many multi-camera performance capture methods focus on providing a sequence of tem- porally consistent meshes, by using the mesh at the previous frame to constrain the mesh at the next frame, often using a ...
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Remora fish suction pad attachment is enhanced by spinule friction
... An important similarity between the pull-off experiments in Fulcher and Motta (2006) and those made here on the dead remora was the stick-slip motion of spinules as evidenced by the rapid fluctuations of the friction ...
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Fabrication and Biological Evaluation of Micro- and Nanostructured Surfaces, Coatings, and 3D-printed Scaffolds to Improve Function and Biocompatibility of Medical Devices.
... Aside from preventing bacterial contamination, nanoscale surface modifications may create a preferential adhesion property for desired cells. The selective adhesion of osteoblasts over fibroblasts has been previously ...
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Three-dimensional porous hollow fibre copper electrodes for efficient and high-rate electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction
... At these potentials, hollow fibres show lower selectivity towards formic acid than typically reported in the literature for smooth or rough copper surfaces 19,20 , whereas similar to copp[r] ...
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Application of Pd-modified Nickel Foam Cathodes to the Process of Alkaline Water Electrolysis
... for smooth and homogeneous surfaces [28, 29], electrochemically active surface area of examined cathodes could be estimated at 233 cm 2 (pure Ni foam) and 2,850 cm 2 for the palladium-modified foam ...
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