In this work, we report an innovative approach to improve the interface properties of SiC/SiO 2 metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) capacitors. High temperature (1350°C) oxidation under different ambient is followed by a combination post-oxidation annealing (POA) treatments using N , O and NO gases. TOF-SIMS analysis shows silicon nitrogen peaks near interface. The peak attributed emission carbon a...

Afferent neural transmission of temperature sensation from skin thermoreceptors to the central thermoregulatory system is important for the defense of body temperature against environmental thermal challenges. Here, we report a thermosensory pathway that triggers physiological heat-defense responses to elevated environmental temperature. Using in vivo electrophysiological and anatomical approac...

The capturing of gel electrophoresis image represents the output of a DNA computing algorithm. Before this image is being captured, DNA computing involves parallel overlap assembly (POA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that is the main of this computing algorithm. However, the design of the DNA oligonucleotides to represent a problem is quite complicated and is prone to errors. In order to ...

This article proposes a novel polarization orientation angle (POA) estimation algorithm for steep terrain by applying physical scattering characteristics of natural surface. The extends the range POA from [-45°, 45°] to (-90°,90°] and achieves consistent with widely used circular (CPA) minimum cross-polarization (MXPA) over flat area, but avoids wrapping caused restriction CPA MXPA precipitous ...

Objective This presentation aims to discuss the need and share the results from an international, multi-disciplinary mission to assess public health surveillance (PHS) in Sudan and develop a plan of action (PoA) to strengthen PHS through integration. We will present the findings of the mission and the resulting PoA developed for Public Health Surveillance Strengthening (PHSS) designed to rapidl...

Scheduling jobs of decentralized decision makers that are in competition will usually lead to cost inefficiencies. This cost inefficiency is studied using the Price of Anarchy (PoA), i.e. the ratio between the worst Nash equilibrium cost and the cost attained at the centralized optimum. First, we provide a tight upperbound for the PoA that depends on the number of machines involved. Second, we ...

Contamination of estrogenic compounds disrupts endocrinological and neurological reproductive systems in animals. Neonatal exposure to 17α-ethinyl estradiol (EE) induced an abnormal estrous cycle at postnatal day (PND) 180, but not at PND90. We found that serum level of luteinizing hormone (LH) at the latter half of proestrus in EE-treated rats was lower than in the controls at PND90 when there...

Neuronal activity was studied in the basal forebrain area (BFA) of freely moving cats during wakefulness (W), slow wave sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep (PS). Two classically synchronizing and hypnogenic regions, the preoptic area (POA) and the olfactory tubercle (OT) were explored by microelectrodes. Compared to W, the discharge rate in most of the POA cells was not modified or was slightly r...

We study atomic routing games on networks in which players choose a path with the objective of minimizing the maximum congestion along the edges of their path. The social cost is the global maximum congestion over all edges in the network. We show that the price of stability is 1. The price of anarchy, PoA, is determined by topological properties of the network. In particular, PoA = O(`+ log n)...