A giant tunneling electroresistance effect may be achieved in a ferroelectric tunnel junction by exploiting the magnetoelectric effect at the interface between the ferroelectric barrier and a magnetic La(1-x)Sr(x)MnO3 electrode. Using first-principles density-functional theory we demonstrate that a few magnetic monolayers of La(1-x)Sr(x)MnO3 near the interface act, in response to ferroelectric ...

To attempt to explain the very strange claim of observation by Mitsubishi group on the mass-8-andcharge -4-transferred (increased) transmutation (Mo-96 or Pr-141) out of sample zone of Sr-88 or Cs-133 in the D-diffusion type experiment with multi-layered Pd plate, our multi-body deuteron fusion model in transient lattice focal points has been extended to hypothesize the occurrence of 4D tetrahe...

Clinical monitoring of shock mainly depends on blood-oxygen-indices obtained from invasive blood sample tests. The central internal jugular central vein oxygenation level (ScvO2) has been considered as a gold standard indicator for shock prediction. We developed a noninvasive spatially-resolved near-infrared spectroscopy (SR-NIRS) to measure tissue blood oxygen saturation (StO2) surrounding the...

Insulating compounds of the magnetic dilution series Eu Sr, S reveal spin glass behavior for 0.13^ x £ 0.65, similar to that in metallic alloy's*. :-7e discuss some of the experimental properties characterizing both the spin-glass state and the nature of the transition. A microscopic picture of the "frozen" state is presented based on the competition of ferromagnetic nearest neighbor and antife...

Membrane depolarization inactivates acetylcholine receptor (AChR) genes in skeletal muscle. We have studied this process in C2C12 cells, focusing on the role of calcium. Cytoplasmic calcium was monitored with fluo-3, and the activity of receptor genes was measured with a sensitive transcript elongation assay. Removal of extracellular calcium or blockage of L-type calcium channels disrupts signa...

In order to study the transfer of water borne 1 J , Cs and *°Sr into rice plants, pot experiments were done by growing rice plants on soils taken from rice beds near two nuclear power plants: Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant and Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant in China. The vertical migration of '"Cs and ''Sr in the soil samples due to leaching was studied, and results show that almost all the contamin...

In this paper, we present the finiteprecision analysis of the pipelined strength-reduced adaptive filter architecture. This architecture provides the dual advantage low power dissipation and high speed operation. Precision requirements for the traditional cross-coupled (CC) and the strengthreduced (SR) architectures are compared. In case of the filter block (F-block) coefficient precision, the ...

According to SR, Newton was more-or-less right about how objects move at ordinary speeds: that’s why his theory was successful for so long, and why it continues to be useful. But SR comes into its own when accounting for the surprising behaviour of objects moving near the speed of light (300 000 kilometres per second, or 186 000 miles per second). Despite ignoring gravity, SR in its turn is usu...

At present the Baltic Sea is considered to be the most contaminated with anthropogenic radionuclides in comparison to any other part of the World Ocean. Anthropogenic radionuclides (mainly 137 Cs and 90 Sr) found in the seawater are sources of the external exposure that contributes to the total radiation exposure to humans. The variations of activity concentrations of 137 Cs and 90 Sr in the wa...

Groundwater contamination from Sr is an environmental challenge posed to present and former nuclear weapons related sites. Traditional methods of extracting groundwater samples and performing laboratory analyses are expensive, time-consuming and induce significant disposal challenges. The authors present here a prototype counter capable of measuring Sr groundwater concentrations in-situ at or b...