A new method for determination of fine particle breakage

Material characterization plays a crucial role by means of equipments efficiency and overall circuit performance. Material properties such as grindability, breakage, crushability, mineralogy can easily be determined by laboratory studies. These parameters are required for modeling and simulation works.Breakage behaviour of material is important for size reduction equipments and it is defined by breakage distribution function. Commonly, single particle breakage method is used to determine breakage behaviour of materials which assumes that breakage is not size dependent. As new surfaces formed material behaviour changes so particle size effect should also be introduced into the grinding model structure. Determination of fine particle breakage becomes important. This will make models more reliable. With this aim a bed breakage method was developed for determination of fine particle breakage. In this study new breakage model is presented and effects of different breakage distribution functions on breakage rate and discharge function is investigated. The bed breakage test results are compared with single size drop-weight test results in the aspect of modeling. It was observed that, the breakage rate and discharge function variation by size indicates a characteristic change at fine size ranges compared to regular curve.     

Home networking at 60 GHz: challenges and research issues

The recent developments in CMOS technology are about opening a new exciting door to affordable 60-GHz radio applications. One promising application area for 60-GHz radio is home networks in which there is an increasing demand for multi-gigabit wireless networking. The research efforts so far have generally focused on utilizing the 60-GHz band for point-to-point communication by addressing its physical aspects like propagation characteristics and channel models. The issues of 60-GHz networking at the system level have not been adequately considered. In this paper, the challenges and the research issues of 60-GHz networking are reviewed from the system-level perspective. We present them in the context of wireless local area networks for future home networks with discussions on some possible solutions for the introduced challenges.     

Transposition of maxillary permanent left cuspid tooth: a case report

It was no accident that Warren Harvey's paper on 'Tooth temperature with reference to dental pain while flying' was published during the Second World War, as Harvey was given the opportunity to investigate this subject after aircrew reported dental problems during flight. Group Captain Peter Richardson of the RAF Institute of Dental Health and Training reviews the paper.     

The dielectric properties prediction of the vegetation depending on the moisture content using the deep neural network model

In this paper, dielectric properties of citrus leaves are predicted with long short‐term memory (LSTM) which is one of the well‐known deep neural network (DNN) models and real‐time measurements for any moisture content (MC) values in the range of 4.90 to 7.05 GHz at a fixed temperature of 24°C for microwave applications, as a novelty. Firstly, S‐parameters of samples are measured with WR‐159 waveguide and Waveguide Transmission Line Method. In addition, the MCs of samples depending on their weights are calculated. Thus, the dataset depending on various MC and frequency is obtained with the measurement results to both training and testing the DNN model. Secondly, a total of 4000 datasets are obtained, 80% of which is used for training, and 20% for testing. The proposed DNN model consists of four inputs (f, MC, S₁₁, and S₂₁) and two outputs (ε′ and ε″). Finally, the dielectric parameters for the desired MC and f are displayed with the graphical user interface in real‐time. Success criteria for the prediction such as mean absolute error, root mean squared error, mean absolute percentage error, and R‐squared are calculated. The results indicated that there is good agreement between the measured and predicted ones. R‐squared are calculated as 0.962 and 0.968 for ε′ and ε″, respectively.     

The influence of blood and/or hemostatic agent contamination on Micro-TBS to dentin

Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of blood contamination and hemostatic agent Ankaferd Blood Stopper (ABS: Ankaferd Drug Inc, Istanbul, Turkey) on the microtensile bond strength of a self-etching adhesive. Material and methods: Flat dentin surfaces were created from 40-M teeth and randomly divided to four groups according to contamination and adhesive procedure. The specimens of Group 1 are contaminated with blood; ABS was applied to the specimens of Group 2 after blood contamination and applied to the specimens of Group 3 without blood contamination. Group 4 is control group and self-etching adhesive was applied to all specimens. Teeth were restored with a nanohybrid composite. The specimens were sectioned to the beams and microtensile testing was carried out and the data were statistically analyzed with analysis of variance test. Tukey’s honestly significant difference post hoc test was also performed for multiple comparisons to compare subgroups. Results: Group 4 had the highest strength value, followed by Group 3, while Group 1, which contacts only with blood, had the lowest strength value. Conclusion: ABS has a negative effect on the bond strength of one-step self-etching adhesive system.