1. Superior NanoBioSystems LLC, Washington, DC USA 2. Fast Israeli Rescue & Search Team, Emek-Hayarden, Israel 3. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois USA 4. Clinique Adonai, Camps de Pétion-ville, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti 5. Department of Materials Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 6. Masters and PhD Program, ‘‘C...

We describe protocols for the fabrication of microfluidic devices in plastics using a number of different embossing masters. Masters were fabricated by deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) of silicon (100), wet etching of silicon (100) and (110), and SU-8 processing. Structures embossed into a cyclo-olefin polymer were characterized in terms of the quality of pattern transfer as well as of the surf...

Introduction. With recognition of clinical education problems in nursing and midwifery, the people in charge will be able to plan the optimal education programs to promote quality presentation of health services to all persons of the community. Surveying the view points of students and faculty members of nursing and midwifery about clinical education problems were the aims of this study. Meth...

The current research investigated cultural differences in emotional intelligence among top officers on board vessels of multicultural maritime companies. We found that Southeast Asian officers scored higher than European officers on the total Emotional Intelligence scale. When separating the EQ scale in its facets, higher scores for Asian officers were found on "Utilization of emotions", "Handl...

In this article we present a high-precision evaluation of the expansions in ǫ = (4−d)/2 of (up to) fourloop scalar vacuum master integrals, using the method of difference equations developed by S. Laporta. We cover the complete set of ‘QED-type’ master integrals, i.e. those with a single mass scale only (i.e. mi ∈ {0,m}) and an even number of massive lines at each vertex. Furthermore, we collec...

Future large-scale sensor network deployments will be tiered, with the motes providing dense sensing and a higher tier of 32-bit master nodes with more powerful radios providing increased overall network capacity. In this paper, we describe a functional architecture for wireless sensor networks that leverages this structure to simplify the overall system. Our Tenet architecture has the nice pro...

Does R&D have an impact on the economic performance of an enterprise? To most economic observers, the obvious answer is yes. However, recent reports by Booz-Allen-Hamilton (BAH 2006, 2007) conclude that the share of spending devoted to research has no relationship to firm growth, profits, and value, and offers support to the view that it is possible to compete successfully in the modern economy...

We consider the Allen-Cahn equation ε∆u + u− u = 0 in Ω, ∂u ∂ν = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a smooth and bounded domain in R such that the mean curvature is positive at each boundary point. We show that there exists a sequence εj → 0 such that the Allen-Cahn equation has a solution uεj with an interface which approaches the boundary as j → +∞.