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MOCVD-Fabricated TiO2 Thin Films: Influence of Growth Conditions on Fibroblast Cells Culture
TiO2 thin films with various morphologies were grown on Ti substrates by the LP-MOCVD technique (Low Pressure Chemical Vapour Deposition from Metal-Organic precursor), with titanium tetra-iso-propoxide as a precursor. All the films were prepared in the same conditions except the deposition time. They were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, optical 15 interferometry, water contact angle measurements. MOCVD-fabricated TiO2 thin films are known to be adapted to cell culture for implant requirements. Human gingival fibroblasts were cultured on the various TiO2 deposits. Differences in cell viability (MTT tests) and cell spreading (qualitative assessment) were observed and related to film roughness, wettability and allotropic composition
Iris Codes Classification Using Discriminant and Witness Directions
The main topic discussed in this paper is how to use intelligence for
biometric decision defuzzification. A neural training model is proposed and
tested here as a possible solution for dealing with natural fuzzification that
appears between the intra- and inter-class distribution of scores computed
during iris recognition tests. It is shown here that the use of proposed neural
network support leads to an improvement in the artificial perception of the
separation between the intra- and inter-class score distributions by moving
them away from each other.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Symp. on Computational
Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (Floriana, Malta, September 15-17),
ISBN: 978-1-4577-1861-8 (electronic), 978-1-4577-1860-1 (print
Performance estimation of interior permanent-magnet brushless motors using the voltage-driven flux-MMF diagram
The flux-magnetomotive force (flux-MMF) diagram, or "energy conversion loop," is a powerful tool for computing the parameters of saturated interior permanent-magnet brushless motors, especially when the assumptions underlying classical dq theory are not valid, as is often the case in modern practice. Efficient finite-element computation of the flux-MMF diagram is possible when the motor current is known a priori, but in high-speed operation the current regulator can lose control of the current waveform and the computation becomes "voltage-driven" rather than "current-driven." This paper describes an efficient method for estimating the motor performance-average torque, inductances-by solving the voltage-driven problem. It presents experimental validation for a two-pole brushless interior permanent-magnet motor. The paper also discusses the general conditions under which this method is appropriate, and compares the method with alternative approaches
Dust in dwarf galaxies: The case of NGC 4214
We have carried out a detailed modelling of the dust heating and emission in
the nearby, starbursting dwarf galaxy NGC 4214. Due to its proximity and the
great wealth of data from the UV to the millimeter range (from GALEX, HST, {\it
Spitzer}, Herschel, Planck and IRAM) it is possible to separately model the
emission from HII regions and their associated photodissociation regions (PDRs)
and the emission from diffuse dust. Furthermore, most model parameters can be
directly determined from the data leaving very few free parameters. We can fit
both the emission from HII+PDR regions and the diffuse emission in NGC 4214
with these models with "normal" dust properties and realistic parameters.Comment: 4pages, 3 figures. To appear in 'The Spectral Energy Distribution of
Galaxies' Proceedings IAU Symposium No 284, 201
Theoretical study of interacting hole gas in p-doped bulk III-V semiconductors
We study the homogeneous interacting hole gas in -doped bulk III-V
semiconductors. The structure of the valence band is modelled by Luttinger's
Hamiltonian in the spherical approximation, giving rise to heavy and light hole
dispersion branches, and the Coulomb repulsion is taken into account via a
self-consistent Hartree-Fock treatment. As a nontrivial feature of the model,
the self-consistent solutions of the Hartree-Fock equations can be found in an
almost purely analytical fashion, which is not the case for other types of
effective spin-orbit coupling terms. In particular, the Coulomb interaction
renormalizes the Fermi wave numbers for heavy and light holes. As a
consequence, the ground state energy found in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock
approach and the result from lowest-order perturbation theory do not agree. We
discuss the consequences of our observations for ferromagnetic semiconductors,
and for the possible observation of the spin-Hall effect in bulk -doped
semiconductors. Finally, we also investigate elementary properties of the
dielectric function in such systems.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, title slightly changed in the course of editorial
process, a few references added, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Operator algebras from the discrete Heisenberg semigroup
We study reflexivity and structure properties of operator algebras generated
by representations of the discrete Heisenberg semi-group. We show that the left
regular representation of this semi-group gives rise to a semi-simple reflexive
algebra. We exhibit an example of a representation which gives rise to a
non-reflexive algebra. En route, we establish reflexivity results for subspaces
of H^{\infty}(\bb{T})\otimes\cl B(\cl H)
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