There has been a surge of paleo-climatic/environmental studies of Northwestern China (NW China), a region characterized by a diverse assortment of hydro-climatic systems. Their common approach, however, focuses on "deducing regional resemblance" rather than "exploring regional variance." To date, efforts to produce a quantitative assessment of long-term intra-regional precipitation variability ...

Decoders are employed to address individual NWs in crossbars (xbars) used for storage and computation. We report on the simulation and analysis of a membranebased nanowire (NW) decoder proposed by Pribat and Savage [1] that implements the randomized-contact decoder (RCD) introduced by Williams and Kuekes [2] and analyzed by Hogg et al [3] and Rachlin and Savage [4]. An RCD has two sets of paral...

Finding the minimum vertex distance between two dis-joint convex polygons in linear time. [6] Supowit, K. J.: The relative neighborhood graph, with an application to minimum spanning trees. A note on the all-nearest-neighbor problem for convex polygons. [10] O'Rourke, J., et al.: A new linear algorithm for intersecting convex polygons.Since P nw and Q R are two linearly separable convex polygon...

Ag nanowire (NW) films obtained by the spraying the Ag NWs on the substrates were nano-welded by rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process and the effect of RTA process on the change of sheet resistance and optical transmittance of the Ag NW films was investigated. The increased number of Ag NW sprays on the substrate decreased the sheet resistance but also decreased the optical transmittance. By t...

The dietary patterns of sixty-four adolescents (thirty-seven young men and twenty-seven young women) between 15 and 17 years of age were examined by analysis of food, energy and nutrient intakes, over a period of 5 d, including a Sunday. Adolescents were identified for inclusion in two study groups: (1) overweight and obese subjects (O) with a BMI (kg/m2) > or = 75th percentile, and (2) subject...

Address: 1The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences, 330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada, 2Calgary Health Region, Richmond Road Diagnostic Center, Room 4502, 1820 Richmond Road SW, Calgary Alberta T2T 5C7, Canada, 3The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Cal...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of a controlled release dexamethasone delivery system for suppressing inflammation in an ocular burn + desiccating stress (OB+DS) model. METHODS Nanowafers (NW) loaded with Dexamethasone (Dex, 10 μg) or vehicles (2.5% Methylcellulose; MC) were fabricated using hydrogel template strategy. C57BL/6 mice were subjected to unilateral alkali ocular burn with concomi...

Arrays of electrodeposited silica nanowires (SiO2 NWs) have been fabricated over large areas (cm(2)) on fluoropolymer thin films attached to glass substrates by a combination of photolithography and electrochemically triggered sol-gel nanoscale deposition. Optical and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) measurements revealed that the SiO2 NW arrays had an average spacing of ten micrometers and a...

We investigate the effect of electrostatic gating on the thermoelectric power factor of p-type Si nanowires (NWs) of up to 20nm in diameter in the [100], [110] and [111] crystallographic transport orientations. We use atomistic tight-binding simulations for the calculation of the NW electronic structure, coupled to linearized Boltzmann transport equation for the calculation of the thermoelectri...

We report on the optical properties of SiGe nanowires (NWs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) in ordered arrays on SiO2/Si(111) substrates. The production method employs Au catalysts with self-limited sizes deposited in SiO2-free sites opened-up in the substrate by focused ion beam patterning for the preferential nucleation and growth of these well-organized NWs. The NWs thus produced have ...