FePt-Ag nanocomposite films with large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy have been fabricated by alternate-atomic-layer electron beam evaporation onto MgO(100) substrates at the low temperature of 300 °C. Their magnetization behavior and microstructure have been studied. The surface topography was observed and varied from continuous to nanogranular microstructures with insertion of Ag nanolayer...

The fastest growth pattern of layer-by-layer (LBL) assembled films is exponential LBL (e-LBL), which has both fundamental and practical importance. It is associated with "in-and-out" diffusion of flexible polymers and thus was considered to be impossible for films containing clay sheets with strong barrier function, preventing diffusion. Here, we demonstrate that e-LBL for inorganic sheets is p...

AIM To evaluate the prognostic value of serum uric acid (SUA) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. METHODS Systematic review and random-effects meta-analysis of prognostic studies assessing AMI outcomes (death, major adverse cardiac events, MACE) in relation to on-admission SUA. RESULTS Nine studies (7655 patients) were identified, 6 in the ST-segment elevation AMI patients treate...

The enrichment of the intergalactic medium (IGM) with heavy elements provides us with a record of past star formation and with an opportunity to study the interactions between galaxies and their environments. We summarize current data analysis methods and observational constraints on abundances in the diffuse, high-redshift (z > 2) IGM. This review is targeted at interested outsiders and attemp...

The combination of the concentration of formic acid and the duration of fumigation (CT product) during indoor treatments of honey bee, Apis mellifera L., colonies to control the varroa mite, Varroa destructor Anderson & Trueman, determines the efficacy of the treatment. Because high concentrations can cause queen mortality, we hypothesized that a high CT product given as a low concentration ove...

Firms devoted to research and development and innovative activities intensively use teams to carry out knowledge intensive work and increasingly ask their employees to be engaged in multiple teams (e.g., R&D project teams) simultaneously. The literature has extensively investigated the antecedents of single teams performance, but has largely overlooked the effects of multiple teammembership (MT...

Improvements and portability of technologies and smart devices have enabled a rapid growth in the amount of user generated media such as photographs and videos. Whilst various media generation and management systems exist it still remains a challenge to discover the right information, for the right purpose. This paper proposes an approach to reverse geocoding by crossreferencing multiple geospa...

We propose in this paper the design, realization and experimental characterization of a low-profile metamaterial “bent” monopole antenna with a total height of 0.027λ0 and a fractional bandwidth of 24.4% around 1.3GHz. The metamaterial (MTM) structure is a dual-layer mushroom-like electromagnetic band gap (DLEBG) conceived and optimized to improve the antenna’s operating bandwidth. Moreover, a ...

In this review article, different structures of monopole antennas based on metamaterial concepts which have been developed for various wireless applications are presented. The antennas designed for wireless applications must be broad band, low profile, small size and have better performance. Monopole antennas embedded with Artificial magnetic conductors (AMC), Electromagnetic band gap structure...

Intracluster medium (ICM) abundances are higher than expected assuming enrichment by supernovae with progenitors belonging to the simple stellar population (SSP) observed in cluster galaxies, if stars formed with a standard initial mass function (IMF). Moreover, new results on ICM oxygen abundances imply that nucleosynthesis occurred with nonstandard yields. The hypothesis that hypernovae (HN) ...