Ultrastrong catalyst-free polycrystalline diamond

Abstract Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring material found on earth but single crystal diamond is brittle due to the nature of catastrophic HELMETS cleavage fracture.Polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) materials are made by high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) technology.PDC materials have been widely used in several industries.Wear

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Flying into the hurricane: A case study of UAV use in damage assessment during the 2017 hurricanes in Texas and Florida.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have been used by disaster relief organizations in the United States since 2005.However, their place in the disaster response ecosystem-the standardization, utility, ethical, and legal challenges of drone use-remains largely unstudied.This case series describes how UAVs were used Optimiser by two teams of r

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Communicating amidst the noise: modeling the aggregate influence of ambient and vessel noise on baleen whale communication space in a national marine sanctuary

Anthropogenic noise negatively impacts many species.One of the more insidious effects of elevated noise levels is the reduction in area over which animals are Dining able to acoustically communicate, often termed communication masking.This study utilizes modeling approaches to evaluate relative levels of masking for 4 baleen whale species from the

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