... MEMS andtheir applications in MEMS testing 13 2.3 Optical microscopy and optical stroboscopy techniques Optical microscopy and optical stroboscopy techniques are perhaps the most common and intuitive ... in the area of long-term device testing Device long-term performance is an indication of reliability and ultimately quality, and is expected to grow in importance especially considering the increasing ... a phase change in the beam occurs resulting in a corresponding change in the interference pattern This change in the inteference pattern can be measured using a photodetector and the photovoltage...
... working temperature of 250 °C and 40% relative humidity (RH) An appropriate amount of ethanol vapor was injected into the closed chamber by a microinjector, and the sensor was exposed to air again ... diameter of about 10-15 nm and a length of about 200 nm After being calcined at 300 °C for h, the sample still maintains the rodlike 1-D morphology, as is shown in Figure 3c and d Compared with the ... carried out, and the resultant products were investigated by TEM (see Figure S1 in the Supporting Information) At a shorter reaction time of only min, there are almost no nanorods formed, and the...
... further investigated by the TEM image as shown in Fig 1b, and the intensive contrast between center and edge of the spheres indicates the formation of hollow structure in the final products, and the ... by centrifuging and sequentially washing with water and ethanol for several times and then dried in a vacuum oven at 60°C for h Characterization The phase of the product was determined by X-ray ... c0 and c are MB concentrations before and after mixing, respectively; A0 and A are absorbencies of the MB solution before and after mixing, respectively; V is the volume of the solution, and...
... cations in the electrolyte (M? = Li?, Na?, and K?) on the surface of MnO2 and also possible intercalation/deintercalation of H? and alkaline metal cations in the bulk of MnO2 [29] Since the 3-D dandelion-like ... speaking, the crystal growth process always includes two steps: the initial nucleation stage and following crystal growth stage [25, 26] Initially, MnO2 colloids are slowly formed and attached to the ... habit planes of existing MnO2 sites, leading to the formation of 1-D nanowhiskers from the initial colloidal microspheres With increase in the processing duration, finally dandelion-like 3-D microspheres...
... providing trainings and guidance for utilizing the technical facilities Finally, I am deeply indebted to my parents for their unconditional love and to my husband for his endless support and loving ... 2.5) The bands with binding energy higher than 166.6 eV are the S2p bands of the sulfur atoms in PSS, and the two bands with low binding energy are the S2p bands of the sulfur atoms in PEDOT [20,66] ... chains, and doping conditions [8] The solution processability is crucial for the application of conducting polymers in many areas Besides the conventional coating, such as drop casting and spin...
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... kNN join and the RkNN query and illustrated theirapplicationin data mining with a novel data mining tool - BORDER We hope that ongoing research in similarity query processing will continue to ... friend, who are always trusting me and having confidence in me, always caring me and missing me, and always encouraging me and supporting me, I am longing to give them a tight and warm embrace vii to ... collection and rapid accumulation of data in repositories Turning such data into useful information and knowledge is desired Consequently, numerous data mining technologies, including data cleaning and...
... kaleidoscope in point 2, and finally after having passed the fused silica window in point 145 Figure 6.8 The experimentally measured temporal history of the electro-adsorption chiller at a fixed cooling ... have reached the thermal design point (TDP) of fan-fins cooling devices, about 73o C A single CPU chip containing both power and logic circuits, can no longer sustain the designed clock speed* because ... effectively increase the surface area of the heat sink Recently, interest in jet impingement cooling (Lee et al., 1999) of electronics cooling has been significantly increased The working fluids...
... provinces We are considering the main cities and the surrounding towns under their administrative in uence The cities, their extension and the number of inhabitants are shown in Table 12 For this ... which includes the required Eb/No, thermal noise, receiver noise figure, and processing gain, and finally, M is the different margins we need to take into account, fast fading margin, log-normal fading ... G is the sum of all gains in the chain, transmitter antenna, receiver antenna, and soft handover gain, L is the sum of all the losses in cables, body losses, and in- building losses, RSens is the...
... necessitating a major surgical procedure (laparatomy, colostomy, long stay in hospital); and grade = death Grades and rectal bleeding is defined as incidental or intermittent bleeding requiring no ... were reported in 34 (36%), 36 (38%), and (9%) patients, respectively Rectal bleeding was reported in 13 (14%) patients, and were graded as grade in 12 (13%), and grade in the remaining (1%) This ... contouring in RT planning for prostatic carcinomas The length of rectum contoured has been defined in different ways by different authors Examples of these definitions include: cm above and below...
... have been gaining increasing popularity in recent years, including in environmental applications However, in spite of their great potentials and versatilities, practical engineered applications ... and other supporting staff for administrative work and laboratory support of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as well as Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, ... density in the metal-ligand backbonding (Steel, 1990), leading to the formation of coordinative bondings, through donating the electron lone pair from pyridine to the metal ion coordinated In general,...
... medicine and life science Initial miniaturizing efforts in LC are attributed to Horvath and co-workers in 1969 [17,18] In the late 1970s, Ishii and co-workers [19-24] reported the slurry packing ... double layer overlap Increasingly more people are becoming interested in this new technique, and the literature on CEC is increasing exponentially [62] The preparation andapplication of new types ... a) acetonitrile and potassium carbonate; b) 4'-aminobenzo-15-crown-5; c) 4'aminobenzo-18-crown-6; d) 8-aminoquinoline-2-ylmethyl-substituted diaza-18-crown-6 and e) 8-aminoquinoline-7-ylmethyl...
... grove from points Sampling points St.1 and St.2 are in the same stream, and sampling point St.3 is in the other stream The two streams flow together to be one stream and the sampling point St.4 is ... and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area and the distribution of the citrus groves in Matsuyama region are shown in Fig Matsuyama is situated in Shikoku Island in ... grove were investigated andtheir behaviors in the collecting reservoirs were discussed The main results obtained from the investigation are as follows: 1) Nitrogen concentration in grove soil...
... finding is carried out in order to find out the ways of translating of non – finite clauses Finally, giving some implications on teaching, learning and translating non – finite clauses is done ... CHAPTER FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 WAYS OF TRANSLATING NON – FINITE CLAUSES By studying English non – finite clauses andtheir Vietnamese equivalents in English novels, short stories, books and public ... understanding,using and translating English non – finite clauses may objectives and some linguists’ theoretical viewpoints about the be significant and important to learners of Engish In reality,...
... confusing in defining, memorizing and using them To overcome these, some solutions are introduced in chapter III such as learning by heart, reading books, magazine, stories pictures and studying ... an insight into the similarities and differences in the use of language and images in English and Vietnamese idioms and proverbs II Some popular English idioms and proverbs relating to food and ... difference and similarities between English and Vietnamese idioms and proverbs Chapter 2: An investigation into English idioms and proverbs relating to food andtheir equivalence in Vietnamese...
... commit errors when learning and using possessive determiners in English Errors in using “a” and “the” in possessive determiners In process of studying “possessive determiners”, Vietnamese learners ... determiners use for feelings and thoughts to the person [81] Too many people blame their failings andtheir unhappiness on luck Scientists have taken a great interest in his ideas (Collin Cobuild, ... when using “possessive determiners” and suggested solutions Errors in word order of possessive determiners and the head noun Errors in using “a” and “the” in possessive determiners ...
... Lansing, Mich., 1995 ă [Berz1996b] M Berz, K Makino, K Shamseddine, G H Hoffstatter, and W Wan, COSY INFINITY and its applications to nonlinear dynamics, in Computational Dierentiation: Techniques, ... 64 Makino and Berz In this paper, we discuss a combination of the techniques of computational dierentiation and interval methods, in a way that uses the advantages and diminishes the disadvantages ... width of the bound interval obtained by interval arithmetic is 0.25012, and so this simple example already shows a noticeable blow-up By dividing the domain interval into many subintervals, the blow-up...
... hydrophobins HFBIII of H jecorina and T longibrachiatum, and SRH1 and HFB1 of T atroviride, involving signal peptides, Kex2type processing, and C-terminal amino acid cleavage (Table 2) In addition, the recorded ... terminal amino acid residues of all six hydrophobins providing this single match A rapid means of identifying peaks corresponding to hydrophobins in MALDI-TOF mass spectra was elaborated, making ... mass peak was missing (Fig 3B) Deviating post-translational processing of hydrophobins in H jecorina strains To investigate strain diversity with respect to metabolite production and low-mass proteomics...
... formation of huntingtin-containing inclusion bodies in Huntington’s disease encourages cell survival, whereas monomers and small inclusion bodies of huntingtin, a protein possessing abnormal polyQ ... aB-Crystallin R120 corresponds to aA-crystallin R116 and both are conserved a-crystallin domain arginines R120G aB-crystallin permits intermediate filament self association in vitro, although binding ... aAcrystallin requires this domain [66] Attachment of R116C aA-crystallin to Hsp27 and aB-crystallin increases in comparison to wild type, while binding to cC-crystallin and bB2-crystallin decreases...