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Analysis of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy of excited-state evolution in bacteriorhodopsin
Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Sample Preparation of Si(1-x)Gex in c-Plane Sapphire Substrate
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration-invented X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods, including the total defect density measurement method and the spatial wafer mapping method, have confirmed super hetero epitaxy growth for rhombohedral single crystalline silicon germanium (Si1-xGex) on a c-plane sapphire substrate. However, the XRD method cannot observe the surface morphology or roughness because of the method s limited resolution. Therefore the authors used transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with samples prepared in two ways, the focused ion beam (FIB) method and the tripod method to study the structure between Si1-xGex and sapphire substrate and Si1?xGex itself. The sample preparation for TEM should be as fast as possible so that the sample should contain few or no artifacts induced by the preparation. The standard sample preparation method of mechanical polishing often requires a relatively long ion milling time (several hours), which increases the probability of inducing defects into the sample. The TEM sampling of the Si1-xGex on sapphire is also difficult because of the sapphire s high hardness and mechanical instability. The FIB method and the tripod method eliminate both problems when performing a cross-section TEM sampling of Si1-xGex on c-plane sapphire, which shows the surface morphology, the interface between film and substrate, and the crystal structure of the film. This paper explains the FIB sampling method and the tripod sampling method, and why sampling Si1-xGex, on a sapphire substrate with TEM, is necessary
Goal-Setting Learning Principles: a Lesson From Practitioner
One of the prominent theory was the goal-setting theory which was widely been used in educational setting. It is an approach than can enhance the teaching and learning activities in the classroom. This is a report paper about a simple study of the implementation of the goal-setting principle in the classroom. A clinical data of the teaching and learning session was then analysed to address several issues highlighted. It is found that the goal-setting principles if understood clearly by the teachers can enhance the teaching and learning activities. Failed to see the needs of the session will revoke the students learning interest. It is suggested that goal-setting learning principles could become a powerful aid for the teachers in the classroom
Stray Flux Monitoring for Reliable Detection of Rotor Faults under the Influence of Rotor Axial Air Ducts
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Fermi Surface Evolution, Pseudo Gap and Stagger Gauge Field Fluctuation in Underdoped Cuprates
In the context of t-J model we show that in underdoped regime,beside the
usual long wave length gauge field fluctuation, an additional low energy
fluctuation, staggered gauge field fluctuation plays a crucial role in the
evolution of Fermi surface(FS) as well as the line shape of spectral function
for the cuprates. By including the staggered gauge field fluctuation we
calculate the spectral function of the electrons by RPA(random phase
approximation). The line shape of the spectral function near is very
broad in underdoped case and is quite sharp in overdoped case. For the spectral
function near , the quasiparticle peaks are always very sharp
in both underdoped and overdoped case. The temperature dependence of the
spectral function is also discussed in our present calculation. These results
fit well with the recent ARPES experiments. We also calculate the FS crossover
from a small four segment like FS to a large continuous FS. The reason of such
kind of FS crossover is ascribed to the staggered gauge field fluctuation which
is strong in underdoped regime and becomes much weaker in overdoped regime. The
pseudo gap extracted from the ARPES data can be also interpreted by the
calculation.Comment: 4 pages,6 eps figures include
On the Conductance Sum Rule for the Hierarchical Edge States of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
The conductance sum rule for the hierarchical edge channel currents of a
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect state is derived analytically within the
Haldane-Halperin hierarchy scheme. We provide also an intuitive interpretation
for the hierarchical drift velocities of the edge excitations.Comment: 11 pages, no figure, Revtex 3.0, IC/93/329, ASITP-93-5
Risk Factors and In-Hospital Outcomes following Tracheostomy in Infants
To describe the epidemiology, risk factors, and in-hospital outcomes of tracheostomy in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
Restoring mitofusin balance prevents axonal degeneration in a Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2A model
Mitofusin-2 (MFN2) is a mitochondrial outer-membrane protein that plays a pivotal role in mitochondrial dynamics in most tissues, yet mutations in MFN2, which cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A (CMT2A), primarily affect the nervous system. We generated a transgenic mouse model of CMT2A that developed severe early onset vision loss and neurological deficits, axonal degeneration without cell body loss, and cytoplasmic and axonal accumulations of fragmented mitochondria. While mitochondrial aggregates were labeled for mitophagy, mutant MFN2 did not inhibit Parkin-mediated degradation, but instead had a dominant negative effect on mitochondrial fusion only when MFN1 was at low levels, as occurs in neurons. Finally, using a transgenic approach, we found that augmenting the level of MFN1 in the nervous system in vivo rescued all phenotypes in mutant MFN2R94Q-expressing mice. These data demonstrate that the MFN1/MFN2 ratio is a key determinant of tissue specificity in CMT2A and indicate that augmentation of MFN1 in the nervous system is a viable therapeutic strategy for the disease
Quantum-classical transition of the escape rate of uniaxial antiferromagnetic particles in an arbitrarily directed field
Quantum-classical escape rate transition has been studied for uniaxial
antiferromagnetic particles with an arbitrarily directed magnetic field. In the
case that the transverse and longitudinal fileds coexist, we calculate the
phase boundary line between first- and second-order transitions, from which
phase diagrams can be obtained. It is shown that the effects of the applied
longitudinal magnetic field on quantum-classical transition vary greatly for
different relative magnitudes of the non-compensation.Comment: to be appeared in Phys. Rev.
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