More companies than ever before are turning to Mergers and Acquisition (M&As), at a pace that is not expected to abate any time soon. For many companies M&As represent the fastest possible route to growth. The acquiring companies seek to grow quickly by flowing more of the same products through new sales channels. For other companies, formally aligning oneself with another company makes it poss...

Recent advances in wireless sensor technology have enabled simultaneous exploitation of multiple channels in wireless sensor systems. In this paper, a novel time synchronization algorithm is proposed for multichannel Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) called Multi-Channel Time Synchronization (MCTS) protocol. Time synchronization is critical for many WSN applications and enables efficient communic...

twik2 ion channels (k2p6.1, encoded by a gene named kcnk6) belong to the family of two-pore domain potassium channels. twik2 is also considered as a “silent” channel because of its inability to produce measurable currents in heterologous expression systems and its intracellular retention. it is expressed in different mammalian tissues including lymphoid organs and the vascular system. however, ...

Commentary Aldosterone secretion is under the control of potassium, renin and angiotensin (Ang II). Consequently, concepts to explain autonomous al-dosterone secretion as the basis for primary aldosteronism (PA) included the presence of stimulating autoantibodies to the Ang II type 1 receptor (AT1R), gain-of-function mutations in the AT1R and aberrant expression of G-protein-coupled membrane re...

High Q frequency reference devices are essential components in many Integrated circuits. This paper will focus on the Resonant Suspended Gate (RSG) MOSFET. The gate in this structure has been designed to resonate at 38.4MHz. The MOSFET in this device has a retrograde channel to achieve high output current. For this purpose, abrupt retrograde channel and Gaussian retrograde channels have bee...