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Swaziland
At the end of 1975 some of the family moved to Swaziland for our father to take up a position at the University of Botswana and Swaziland. The role...
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Percolation Theory: Classical and Poor Man’s
As pointed out in Chapter 1, both Nature and people produce a wide variety of materials with enormous variations in their morphology. The morphology...
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A modified single edge V-notched beam method for evaluating surface fracture toughness of thermal barrier coatings
The surface fracture toughness is an important mechanical parameter for studying the failure behavior of air plasma sprayed (APS) thermal barrier...
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Discrimination of Precious and Semi-Precious Gemstones Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Approaches
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a very simple but capable spectroscopic analytical method that performs simultaneous multi-element...
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A two-fluid arrangement with bounded van der Waals body forces. Part 1. The Young-Laplace equilibria. Differences from comparable gravity systems
We study a conceivable two-fluid system with a layer of one fluid between a solid support and a semi-infinite layer of the other fluid in which the...
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Propagation of Rayleigh-type surface waves in a layered piezoelectric nanostructure with surface effects
This work investigates the dispersion properties of Rayleigh-type surface waves propagating in a layered piezoelectric nanostructure composed of a...
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Solid-State Spin Qubits
Solid-state spin qubitsSpin qubits are based on the electron spin in solid materials. We want to manufacture a spinSpin system by confining/trap**...
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Recent advancement of flow-induced piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting techniques: principles, structures, and nonlinear designs
Energy harvesting induced from flowing fluids (e.g., air and water flows) is a well-known process, which can be regarded as a sustainable and...
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Modeling nonlinear bending of axisymmetric circular nano-plates in framework of Ru’s surface stress elasticity theory
The nonlinear bending of axisymmetric circular nano-plates is investigated in the framework of the Ru’s surface stress elasticity theory. The inside...
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Application of Microwave Oven Plasma Reactors for the Formation of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials
This paper reviews the literature on the formation of carbon-based nanomaterials using converted domestic microwave oven plasma reactors. The...
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Polarization-Optical Parameters of the Axisymmetric Residual Stresses in an Isotropic Dielectric Cylinder
We consider the direct problem of determination of axisymmetric residual stresses in a finite isotropic dielectric cylindrical body caused by the...
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Traveling Wave Solutions for Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Equations as Dynamical Systems Problems
AbstractIn this paper we present a review of the traveling wave solutions (tws) analysis associated with different families of nonlinear...
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Looking Through the Glass
Projective geometry allows us, as its name suggests, to project a three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional canvas. A perspective projection...
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Directed Percolation and Its Applications
As described briefly in Chap. 3, a variant of the classical percolation called directed percolation (DP), has been shown to have fascinating...
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Rajendra Bhatia and his mathematical achievements
In this paper, we provide a biography of Professor Rajendra Bhatia and discuss some of his influential mathematical works as one of the leading...
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The Ring Variety: A Basic Typology
Chapter 2 presented the logic of control systems and described the technical structure that produces...
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Sampling and Estimation for Stereology
Chapter 2 covers geometric sampling and mean values of random variables observable on the intersection between a non-random target object and a...
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A continuum model for brittle nanowires derived from an atomistic description by \(\Gamma \)-convergence
Starting from a particle system with short-range interactions, we derive a continuum model for the bending, torsion, and brittle fracture of...
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Looking Through the Glass
Projective geometry allows us, as its name suggests, to project a three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional canvas. A perspective projection...
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