With the rapid feature size reduction of modern semiconductor devices accurate description of hot-carrier phenomena is becoming very important. Frequently used carrier transport models are the traditional drift-diffusion model and energytransport models which also consider the average carrier energy as an independent solution variable. Recent results show, however, that the average energy is in...

Gödel's legacy is still very much in evidence. We will not attempt to properly discuss the full impact of his work and all of the ongoing important research programs that it suggests. This would require a book length manuscript. Indeed, there are several books discussing the Gödel legacy from many points of view, including, for example, [Wa87], [Wa96], [Da05], and the historically comprehensive...

BACKGROUND Traffic and transport is a substantial part of a range of economic, social and environmental factors distinguished to have impact on human health. This paper is a report on a preliminary section of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on urban traffic and transport initiatives, being conducted in Sanandaj, Iran. In this preliminary study, the psychometric properties of Urban Traffic rela...

A giant magnetic-field-induced strain ~MFIS! of 23100 ppm has been obtained in Heusler alloy Ni52Mn22.2Ga25.8 single crystal in the @001# direction at a temperature from 23 to 31 °C. This MFIS reaches saturation in an applied field about 6 kOe, and exhibits the same amplitude with an opposite sign while the field is perpendicular to the samples. According to a previous model, this MFIS associat...

The electron impact ionization cross section of H2 is calculated using a distortedwave approximation. The calculated cross section is compared to the experimental results of Peart and Dolder. The simplicity of the system allows an assessment of the accuracy of the distorted-wave approximation without complications from inaccuracies in the target state, initial continuum state, or final continuu...

Tien-Yow Kuo and Keh-Ning Huang Institute of Optoelectronic Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan 202, Republic of China Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P. O. Box 23-166, Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China ~Received 5 February 2001; published 17 August 2...

BACKGROUND Health impact assessment has been identified internationally as a mechanism to ensure potential health impacts and health equity impacts of proposals are considered before implementation. This paper looks at the impact of three equity focused health impact assessments (EFHIAs) of health service plans on subsequent decision-making and implementation, and then utilises these findings t...

OBJECTIVE To describe the main differences between conducting a rapid health impact assessment (HIA) and an intermediate HIA on foreshore development plans and their feasibility from a health service perspective. METHODS A rapid HIA and an intermediate HIA were undertaken on two foreshore development plans. RESULTS The main differences between the two HIAs were in the identification, assess...

6 International Symposium on Canine and Feline Reproduction & 6 Biennial EVSSAR Congress European Veterinary Society for Small Animal Reproduction "Reproductive biology and medicine of domestic and exotic carnivores" University of Veterinary Sciences 9 – 11 July 2008 Vienna, Austria Editors: G. England, P. Concannon, S. Schäfer-Somi Close this window to return to IVIS