Glass ceramics with controllable pore structure for medicine

The conditions for synthesis of porous biocomposite materials based on calcium phosphate for fabricating implants with prescribed pore-structure parameters, and the desired level of physical, chemical, and biological properties for clinical applications are determined. The role of a bimodal pore structure in the substrate materials for cell cultures is shown. __________ Translated from Steklo i Keramika, No. 4, pp. 23–26, April, 2007.     

Optimization of Linearly Equalized QAM

A QAM signal transmitted over a channel with linear distortion and additive white Gaussian noise can be linearly equalized at the receiver to eliminate intersymbol interference. If the QAM signal is power constrained and a given symbol error rate is required, we show that it is possible to maximize the bit rate of this system by optimizing the symbol rate and the number of bits/symbol. Ideal linear equalization is assumed at the receiver to overcome the distortion introduced by the channel. As an example, a Gaussian channel is chosen, and the bit rate is maximized for this channel. The QAM maximization is especially useful for channels with slowly decaying channel attenuation characteristics, e.g., the twisted-pair channel.     

Thermodynamic time and microstress tensor in Vakulenko's form

The significance of the concepts of thermodynamic time and microstress tensor introduced by A. A. Vakulenko for development of the theory of viscoplasticity is analyzed.Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 5, pp. 56–58, May, 1991.     

Analysis of performance of fuel elements of the BOR-60 reactor with vibrocompacted uranium-plutonium oxide fuel

Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 299–302, May 1989.     

High-speed, polyimide-based semi-insulating planar buried heterostructures

We describe planar buried heterostructure lasers which have low capacitance (lpF), large bandwidth (19GHz), high power (>20mW/facet) and high temperature operation (100°C). These lasers are very suitable for long-distance, highspeed digital and analogue signal transmission.