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International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility-DEMO-Oriented NEutron Source (IFMIF-DONES) is a high-intensity neutron irradiation facility for qualification of fusion reactor materials, which is being des...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Cancer-specific survival by stage of bladder cancer and factors collected by Mallorca Cancer Registry associated to survival
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Open AccessCancer-specific survival by stage of bladder cancer and factors collected by Mallorca Cancer Registry associated to survival
Information about survival by stage in bladder cancer is scarce, as well as about survival of non-invasive bladder cancer. The aims of this study are: 1) to find out the distribution of bladder cancer by stage...
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H-Phase Precipitation and Martensitic Transformation in Ni-rich Ni–Ti–Hf and Ni–Ti-Zr High-Temperature Shape Memory Alloys
The distributions of H-phase precipitates in Ni50.3Ti29.7Hf20 and Ni50.3Ti29.7Zr20 alloys formed by aging treatments at 500 and 550 °C or slow furnace cooling and their effects on the thermal martensitic transfor...
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Effect of thermal cycling on martensitic γ↔ε-transformation in alloy Fe – 22% Mn – 3% Si
Methods of mechanical spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry demonstrate the effect of thermal cycling for a specimen of alloy Fe – 22% Mn – 3% Si through the martensitic transformation range on ma...
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Orientation dependence of superelasticity in ferromagnetic single crystals Co49Ni21Ga30
Dependence of the amount of reversible deformation on the orientation of the crystal axis and testing temperature has been studied using [001] and [ ...
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Effect of orientation on the high-temperature superelasticity in Co49Ni21Ga30 single crystals
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Linear analysis of the influence of FIR feedback filters on the response of the pulsed digital oscillator
The objective of this work is to extend the linear analysis of Pulsed Digital Oscillators to those topologies having a Finite Impulse Response (FIR) in the feedback loop of the circuit. It will be shown with t...
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Several studies have shown that a surface dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) may be used as an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) actuator in order to control airflows. In this paper, a parametric study has been perfor...
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Toward the Fabrication of Hybrid Polymer/Metal Three-Dimensional Microstructures
A method for coating three-dimensional microstructures fabricated by multiphoton absorption polymerization (MAP) with metallic patterns in a selective manner is introduced in this paper. We first use a small f...
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Complex structural features of satellite DNA sequences in the genus Pimelia (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): random differential amplification from a common ‘satellite DNA library’
The major satellites of the nine species of the subgenera Pimelia s. str. and Amblyptera characterised in this paper are composed of longer monomers (500 and 700 bp) than those described previously in 26 Pimelia ...
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Shape-memory properties of equiatomic NiTi, Ni45Ti50Cu5, and Ni25Ti50Cu25 ribbons made by melt spinning have been studied by temperature inducing the martensitic transformation under constant tensile loads. Recov...
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Microstructure and martensite transformation in aged Ti-25Ni-25Cu shape memory melt spun ribbons
The phase transformations and microstructure of Ti-25at.%Ni-25at.%Cu alloy melt-spun at 26 m/s (50 μm thick, 3 mm wide) were investigated using DSC and TEM. The as received ribbon was nearly fully amorphous wi...
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Fast Recursive Implementation of the Gaussian Filter
On one hand, the convolution with the truncated impulse response (ir) of Gaussian filters leads to a high computation cost when the standard deviation a of the Gaussian increases. On the other hand, recursive fil...
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This paper describes the application of Harmonic Balance algorithms to predict nonlinear effects in planar High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) microwave circuits. The resulting algorithms are fast and effic...
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Phase Transformations in Rapidly Quenched Ni–Mn–Ga Alloys
Structural and ferromagnetic transitions in shape memory Ni–Mn–Ga alloys and their martensitic structure and microstructure were found to be strongly influenced by rapid quenching from the liquid state and by ...
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Thermal Cycling and Deformation Effects in Ni-Ti-Co Shape Memory Alloys
The Ni-Ti-based alloys with compositions around 50%Ni – 50%Ti (atomic %) constitute the lightest and most important group, from the point of view of industrial applications, of the so-called Shape Memory Allo...
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The effects of thermal cycling through the martensitic transformation have been studied in three Cu–Al–Ni–Mn–B high temperature shape memory alloys. An increase of the martensitic transformation temperatures w...
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Anomalies have been detected in the temperature behavior of the physical properties of Ni2MnGa in the temperature interval preceding the martensitic transformation, which is attributed to TA 2 phonon mode condens...
