Hard disk drives (HDDs) were developed in 1956 and initially were applied mainly as external memories for mainframe computers. Subsequent advances in HDD technologies leading to higher areal density, smaller size and lower cost have brought HDDs into widespread use for their convenience. HDDs are now the mainstream external memories used for personal computers and mainframe computers. Recently,...

We report two effects that lead to a significant reduction of the switching field distribution in exchange spring media. The first effect relies on a subtle mechanism of the interplay between exchange coupling between soft and hard layers and anisotropy that allows significant reduction of the switching field distribution in exchange spring media. This effect reduces the switching field distrib...

Hard disk drives (HDDs) are recently being incorporated into video recorders, car navigation devices, family game machines, etc., as devices (AV-HDDs) to store digital AV (audio-visual) information such as movies and television programs. Because the AV-HDD has the features of large capacity, high speed and low cost, it is suitable for long-time recording, high-speed random access and multi-chan...

Compared to more common media of communication such as telephone or e−mail, video conferences (VCs) provide further communicational resources for the interactants by allowing for visual cues that are suspected to play a major role in discourse management, cognitive and affective processing. Video−conferencing furthermore has a number of practical advantages compared to real meetings, such as th...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the relation between emotional reactivity and regulation associated with fluent and stuttered utterances of preschool-age children who stutter (CWS) and those who do not (CWNS). PARTICIPANTS Participants were eight 3 to 6-year old CWS and eight CWNS of comparable age and gender. METHODS Participants were exposed to three emotion-inducing overh...