More than a decade’s worth of research has led to significant progress toward an understanding of the growth behavior of nanowires (NWs). Among all of the different bottom-up and top-down strategies, vapor deposition has unique advantages in producing high quality NW structures. This paper reviews the current understandings of the thermodynamics and kinetics of NW nucleation and growth behavior...

Nordic Walking (NW) owes much of its popularity to the benefits of greater energy expenditure and upper body engagement than found in conventional walking (W). Muscle activation during NW is still understudied, however. The aim of the present study was to assess differences in muscle activation and physiological responses between NW and W in level and uphill walking conditions. Nine expert Nord...

We report the fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) branched nanowire (NW) heterostructures, consisting of periodically ordered vertical Si NW trunks and ZnO NW branches, and their application for solar water splitting. The branched NW photoelectrodes show orders of magnitudes higher photocurrent compared to the bare Si NW electrodes. More interestingly, selective photoelectrochemical cathodic ...

Serological analysis of recombinant cDNA expression libraries (SEREX) has led to the identification of several categories of new tumor antigens. We analyzed a testicular cDNA expression library with serum obtained from a breast cancer patient and isolated 13 genes designated NW-BR-1 through NW-BR-13. Of these, 3 showed tumorrestricted expression (NW-BR-1, -2 and -3), the others being expressed ...

The continuous soil gas radon and daily monitoring of radon concentration in water is carried out at Amritsar (Punjab, India), a well known seismic zone to study the correlation of radon anomalies in relation to seismic activities in the study area. In this study, radon monitoring in soil was carried out by using barasol probe (BMC2) manufactured by Algade France whereas the radon content in wa...

A late Mesoproterozoic detrital zircon (DZ) age population, which was previously considered diagnostic of a link between the Lhasa terrane and northwest Australia, occurs in other Gondwanan components, thus obscuring paleogeographic position Gondwana. Here we compiled large-n (n ≥ 300) DZ U-Pb data from potential source regions various proposed reconstructions, attempted to synthesize spectra t...

Background: Interest around Nordic Walking (NW) has increased in recent years. However, direct comparisons of NW with normal walking (W), particularly in ecologically valid environments is lacking. The aim of our study was to compare NW and W, over long distances in a natural mountain environment. Methods: Twenty one subjects (13 male/8 female, aged 41 ± 12 years, body mass index BMI 24.1 ± 3.7...

Z. H. Wang, P. H. Diamond, Ö. D. Gürcan, X. Garbet, and X. G. Wang School of Physics and Optoelectronic Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0424, USA WCI Center for Fusion Theory, National Fusion Research Institute, Gwahangno 113, ...