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For each test sample, we designed 49 (7×7 array) different indent locations (Fig.9) with a spacing of 15μm. We could get 5 hardness and modulus values respectively for each location from one loading-unloading curve, and therefore 245 hardness and 245 modulus values totally for each sample. By averaging the hardness and modulus, the test results were summarized in Table. 4. Center region was the middle area of coating which was fully deposited with nanoparticles, while transition region is the edge of coating which was partially

A mid-October surprise greeted print media with the announcement that Playboy magazine would no longer feature nude women. CEO Scott Flanders noted “"You 're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it 's just passé at this juncture.” The magazine will continue to picture women in provocative poses; the running joke that men read Playboy “for the articles” will now carry more credence as the magazine attempts to compete with the likes of Vice. Playboy is struggling. Distribution is down from a high of 5.6 million to 800,000 copies today. Despite the decline of America’s foremost men’s magazine, the cultural impact of Playboy is extensive. Best known for nude pictorials, Playboy created an idealization of straight masculinity, through consumerism, that hoped to change American views on feminism, monogamy and romance. Let’s examine how.

The aim of this experiment was to measure the angle between a metal surface and a liquid droplet using a CCD camera and optics. This experiment also investigated how metal surfaces coated with single-molecule layers of functionalized alkanethiols and alkanethiols alter the wetting behavior and metal surface energy.

Methanol-cleaned AD BPs were either swirled or become brittle even before heat treatment (Figure 4). Acetone-cleaned AD BPs also showed a similar pattern but only at the first condition, the samples keeping the physical integrity. HiPco BPs did not manifest any change in appearance or integrity throughout the experiment and the samples were very flexible.

Top Coat Gives durable and pleasant appearance. Resistance to U-V radiation. Flexible so no cracks. Adheres to the surfacer.

Because PTFE is poorly soluble in almost all solvents, the polymerization is conducted as an emulsion in water. This process gives a suspension of polymer particles. Alternatively, the polymerization is conducted using a surfactant such as PFOS.

When Cu2+ gets in contact with lead, a reaction would occur and the lead will acquire a layer

It's important for children to learn about and understand the world around them, but studying can be boring and uninteresting. If you want to instill a love of learning in your children, you need to ditch the dull whenever you can and instead make learning fun and engaging. Here's how.

People have different opinions about facts, people and other things. They might have come from different background, but they might have same judgement on somethings. In the article, the author used Bill O’Reilly and bell hooks (She does not her name to be the focus. Instead she wants her work to be noticed.) Bill O’Reilly is a host of Fox News Channel and The O’Reilly Factor. On the other hand bell hooks is known for being a feminist and social activist. Both of them have different point of view on somethings, but they definitely have similar perspective towards Beyoncé. O’Reilly has stated that a lot of teenagers, especially Black teenagers, make Beyoncé their idol. They want to do what she is showing and reviling about

Whitney Houston said it best when she sang that children are our future. I am a firm believer that it takes a village to raise a child. Children need guidance and love. They need advocates as well. In my community, children are struggling with obesity. To fix this issue, children need a proper diet, encouraged exercise, and to play actively with others.

I have heard about censorship many times, but did I ever think about it seriously? No! Censorship is a suppression of speech or other public communication that is considered objectionable, harmful, or sensitive as determined by the government. It involves content that is harmful to the public and children who can easily watch the harmful subject through one click. Censorship can be on the largest level or on a local level where one could want to control only one community or a person. The government makes some laws that dictate how a person or a government cannot abuse any rights or freedoms. In democratic countries, people have rights to express their feelings and freedom of speech. So the question here is weather censorship

Ormocers, a word originally derived from organically modified ceramic, were originally developed for science and technology (e. g. for special surfaces like protective coatings, non-stick surfaces, anti-static coatings and non-reflective coatings). In contrast to conventional composites, the ormocer matrix is not only organic but also inorganic. Therefore monomers are better embedded in the matrix what reduces the release of monomers.(373)

Polypyrrole is poorly crystalline, with crystalline regions randomly oriented and the polymer chains lying with the pyrrole rings coplanar to the surface . Actually polypyrrole obtained so far

This paper examines the preparatory and reflective online discourse that is available on university study abroad websites. Utilizing both Ervin Goffman’s (1986) notion of the ways in which situations “frame” themselves in order to produce specific meanings, and Sarbin and Scheibe’s (1983) work on how identity claims are displayed through rhetoric that signals how things should be viewed by others, this paper looks at the verbal rhetoric found on the websites of four universities within North Carolina. The analysis provides a critical look at the websites’ emphasis on firsthand immersion and promises for transformative experiences. Furthermore, the analysis observes the ways in which universities perpetuate a specific experience by

Climate change, otherwise known as global warming, has grown more apparent in recent years, with increased natural disasters, significantly warmer temperatures and unreasonably long seasons. Global warming is one of the main concerns that scientists have been researching for the past century. Scientific evidence shows that global warming is caused by human behaviors. Due to the amount of human-induced carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that have been released into the air, the earth is becoming a highly poisonous place to live on. Earth’s climate has been constantly changing ever since the Industrial Revolution, when innovations began and factories were built, which emitted mass air pollution. As more technological