The use of boron nitride (BN) as a substrate for graphene nanodevices has attracted much interest since the recent report that BN greatly improves the mobility of charge carriers in graphene compared to standard SiO(2) substrates. We have explored the local microscopic properties of graphene on a BN substrate using scanning tunneling microscopy. We find that BN substrates result in extraordinar...

This paper investigates the methods for learning Bayesian belief network (BN) based predictive models for classification. Our primary interests are in the unrestricted Bayesian network and Bayesian multi-net based classifiers. We present our algorithms for learning these classifiers and also the methods for fighting the overfitting problem. A natural method for feature subset selection is also ...

Suppose / is a holomorphic function on the open unit ball Bn of Cn. For 1 < p < oo and to > 0 an integer, we show that / is in Lp(Bn,dV) (with dV the volume measure) iff all the functions dmf/dza (\a\ = to) are in Lp(Bn,dV). We also prove that / is in the Bloch space of Bn iff all the functions dmf/dza (\a\ = m) are bounded on Bn. The corresponding result for the little Bloch space of Bn is est...

We study the length of the gaps between consecutive members in the sumset sA when A is a pseudo s-th power sequence, with s ≥ 2. We show that, almost surely, lim sup(bn+1 − bn)/ log(bn) = sss!/Γs(1/s), where bn are the elements of sA.

The atomic and electronic structure of h-BN deposited on Ru 001 , Rh 111 , and Pt 111 is discussed in terms of ab initio density functional theory. Our calculations indicate that the interaction between h-BN and the metal substrate is relatively weak for the h-BN/Pt 111 interface but rather strong for the Ru 001 and Rh 111 surfaces. The corrugations of the h-BN layer calculated for h-BN/Rh 111 ...

Wurtzite Boron Nitride ($w$BN) is a wide band gap BN polymorph with peculiar mechanical properties (hardness and stiffness). After its first synthesis in 1963 as transformation of hexagonal ($h$BN) under high temperature pressure conditions, lot progress have been made order to stabilize wurtzite phase at atmospheric pressure. Today the crystallization good quality samples finally possible. Thi...

We describe in situ synthesis and characterization of single-walled BN nanotubes terminated by fullerenelike structures using electron-cyclotron resonance nitrogen and electron beam boron sources onto polycrystalline tungsten substrates. Detailed comparisons of experimental high-resolution electron microscopy images and simulations based upon molecular models show a dominance of kinks and bends...

An increasing number of applications of a one-dimensional (1-D) map as an information processing element are found in the literature on artificial neural networks, image processing systems, and secure communication systems. In search of an efficient hardware implementation of a 1-D map, we discovered that the bifurcating neuron (BN), which was introduced elsewhere as a mathematical model of a b...

Adult Brown Norway (BN) rats exhibit numerous internal elastic lamina (IEL) ruptures in the abdominal aorta (AA) and a lower aortic elastin-to-collagen ratio (E/C) compared with other strains. We studied here AA mechanical properties in BN compared with control strains. AA stiffness (assessed by plotting elastic modulus/wall-stress curves obtained under anesthesia), thoracic aorta elastin and c...

prompt decrease in BP. In three subjects, hypotension occurred after BN (BP <120/70 mmHg), and intradialytic ultrafiltration had to be decreased. Five patients required continuation of one antihypertensive drug. While in our centre, antihypertensive therapy was more intense during the last years of the study with 5.8 (5–6) daily antihypertensive agents compared with only 4.4 (4–5) in the years ...