... GaN andrelatedmaterials GaN and its alloys (AlGaN and InGaN) provide the possibility of producing ultraviolet to red LEDs and LDs using the same set of materials which is attractive for integration ... and interest is being maintained due to essential position of GaN and its alloys in solid state lighting The number of papers shown in this figure includes word ”gallium nitride” (or GaN) in their ... of binding energies and splitting of A-, B- and C- valence bands are mentioned in Fig 2.2 The band gap of wurtzite GaN is higher than that of the zincblende structure 2.2.3 Properties of GaN and...
... carbon materials including single and few layer graphene sheets are promising for spintronic applications due to their peculiar electronic properties, including small spin-orbit coupling, high carrier ... challenges lingering including efficient spin injection from FM to graphene while 18 Chapter Introduction maintaining a low contact resistance Chapter discusses the fundamental physics of graphene band ... spinorbit coupling in graphene, metal/graphene contacts, the importance of a contact barrier for spin injection, diffusion and detection in graphene spin devices, and other factors influencing...
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... andin food of bovine origin (Martin and Beutin 2011) and it is found in major EHEC strains causing HC and HUS in humans Stx1c was found to be associated with non-bloody diarrhoea in humans and ... antigen-antibody binding, resulting in low antigen determination, a Trends in Immunolabelled andRelated Techniques phenomenon known as 'high dose hook effect' in a patient with a large macroprolactinoma In ... medical examiner investigations, driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol and other transportation accident investigations, workplace pre-employment, random and for-cause drug testing and judicial...
... classical and quantum systems and it o was generalized later by Saito and Utsumi [45] and Andrieux et al [46] 15 Chapter Introduction This FT is valid for several interacting systems, initially ... important role in controlling the transport Therefore for small 19 Chapter Introduction systems understanding the properties of higher order fluctuations seems necessary, in the context of transport ... the CF for transferred heat and obtain an explicit expression using the nonequilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) and Feynman path-integral technique Considering different initial conditions for the...
... understanding and engineering the thermal transportin materials, many theoretical and experimental works has been done to determine the MFPs Chapter Introduction Empirical expressions and the ... the understanding of underlying physics in PnCs and the controlling of phonon transportin PnCs In this thesis, I will investigate the thermal transport of nanoscale 2D and 3D PnCs using the classical ... generating electricity from waste heat and being used as solid-state Peltier coolers The demand for energy in the world is increasing, while the non-renewable fossil fuel becomes less and less in...
... surface and interface energy; another is strain energy In terms of energy minimization, the surface and interface energy minimization and the strain energy minimization compete in defining the ... Considering a fully coalesced polycrystalline films, grain coarsening can occur through motion of grain boundary resulting in the shrinkage and elimination of small grains which, in turn, result in ... are in a strain-free state There are other strains arising during processing which are referred to growth strains The grain growth, the sintering and drying of powder compacts and the introduction...
... parents in China and my wife Liu Xuan in Singapore ii SUMMARY The engineering applications of spintronics devices utilizing both charge and spin properties of electrons require host materials (eg ZnO) ... suitable materials for spintronics devices becomes demanding and challenging There are several criteria for spintronics host materials (1) long Chapter Introduction spin lifetime, (2) high spin injection ... promising host materials for spintronics applications were Co doped ZnO, Al doped ZnO, Pt doped ZnO, Fe doped In2 O3, Pt doped oxides and defects -related C systems The origin of ferromagnetism in...
... one In both cases, the Ca2+ concentration increased gradually from the beginning of leaching, decreased after a peak, and then increased and decreased again This behavior indicates that the initial ... taking the water balance for evapotranspiration in test fields in China into consideration, salt leaching in fields could be predicted using the results of the soil column experiment MATERIALSAND ... the transport of salts such as cations (Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+ and K+) and Cl- in a column were investigated by using a tensiometer and a four-electrode sensor, and the amounts of these salts in soil and...
... VIETNAMESE IN TERMS OF In this section, we will analyse one word in each meaning syntactically namely hear and nghe in meaning 1, listen and l ng nghe in meaning 2, overhear and nghe l m in meaning and ... listen in English and nghe in Vietnamese Thirdly, WRHs in four meanings can combine with N or NP whose meanings relate to sounds Fourthly, the number of WRHs of the meaning and meaning in English and ... world and use words and idioms related to hearing in English and Therefore, language is a subtle and complex instrument used to Vietnamese communicate an incredible number of different things Being...
... Preliminary analyzing translation strategies and procedures employed in translation of their English terms into Vietnamese Collecting and presenting basic terms in finance and banking Providing ... profit” In short, the three main types of bank income are interest income, fee income and exchange profit Banking is a profitable business and competition among banks is increasing As competition increases ... equivalents or expressions 11 Providing majors in finance and banking Department in particular and the others who may concern finance and banking terms and their corresponding Vietnamese The researcher...
... Outline • • • • • TCP’s inefficiency in grid applications UDT Design issues Implementations issues Conclusion and future work TCP and AIMD • TCP has been very successful in the Internet ... AIMD (Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease) • Fair: max-min fairness • Stable: globally asynchronously stable • But, inefficient and not scalable – In grid networks (with high bandwidth-delay ... RTT bias Efficiency of TCP Gb/s link, 200ms RTT, between Tokyo and Chicago 28 minutes On 10 Gb/s link, 200ms RTT, it will take hours 43 minutes to recover from a single loss TCP’s throughput model:...
... among MSM; individuals are introduced to know about MSM early on in life; individuals get to know about homosexuality in diverse settings and largely in schools and the majority identified in this ... spread of HIV in Malawi Materialsand Methods Study area The study was conducted in the central and southern regions of Malawi and included Blantyre, Zomba, Lilongwe, Machinga, Mangochi and Dedza ... understanding MSM socio-demographic characteristics, sexual health related attitudes and practices It is envisaged that this information may encourage research and programmatic interest in efforts...
... minutes cultivating crops, 20 minutes tending to animals, 10 minutes collecting firewood and dung, 45 minutes tending to the fire and 114 minutes (1 hour 45 minutes) preparing and cooking food Other ... 97 minutes (1 hour 37 minutes) of cooking, 26 minutes of making fire and 41 minutes of preparing food Other household activities add up to another 137 minutes (2 hours 17 minutes), bringing the ... travelling to and from the river Travelling to and from the fields takes up 46 minutes and to and from the forest 27 minutes Travelling to social activities takes 137 minutes (2 hours 17 minutes) and...
... plates lacking leucine and tryptophan Diploid cells were resuspended and dropped in equal amounts on to plates lacking histidine and adenine with increasing methionine concentrations (A) Interactions ... data in yeast suggest that the Alr1 protein acts as a Mg2+-permeable ion channel [14] Using in vitro chemical cross-linking andin vivo split-ubiquitin assays to analyze protein–protein interactions, ... are printed in italic Single amino-acid exchanges in alr1–1 and alr1–31 at position 750 and 795, respectively, are indicated by grey boxes The R768E substitution introduced into Alr2p is indicated...
... high-affinity bilirubin binding only in the liver, but not in carnation (Table 1, section D) Conversely, antibody B identifies a site involved in the high-affinity binding of cyanidin 3-glucoside in carnation ... human ligandins: characterization of a binding-site peptide Biochim Biophys Acta 955, 296–300 52 Gregus Z & Klaassen CD (1982) Role of ligandin as a binding protein and as an enzyme in the biliary ... ae–kt, and the individual inhibition rate constants were obtained as detailed in the legend to Fig (B) Scrutton and Utter plot Inactivation rate constants were related to [bilirubin], according...
... new elements of insulin signaling Insulin receptor substrate-1 and proteins with SH2 domains Diabetes 42, 643–650 White, M.F (1997) The insulin signalling system and the IRS proteins Diabetologia ... Chen, D., Fucini, R.V., Olson, A.L., Hemmings, B.A & Pessin, J.E (1999) Osmotic shock inhibits insulin signaling by maintaining akt protein kinase B in an inactive dephosphorylated state Mol Cellular ... steps in both arsenite- and insulin-induced glucose uptake: activation of p38 MAPK and tyrosine-phosphorylation of c-Cbl In contrast to insulin, arsenite does not activate PI-3¢ kinase (and consequently...
... Dementia and When to Perform PET Linda M Ercoli and Gary W Small Clinical Interpretation of Brain PET Scans: Performing Visual Assessments, Providing Quantifying Data, and Generating Integrated ... psychiatrists (and others examining disorders of the brain) order and read brain PET scans, demand is greatest for those pertaining to dementia andrelated disorders This demand is driven by the sheer ... functioning The physician should obtain information regarding marital status or domestic partner, familial and social relationships, and living situation Such information is useful in determining...