During the early summer rainy season over Taiwan, three types of low-level jets are observed, including a synoptic jet (SLLJ) situated in 850–700 hPa layer frontal zone, marine boundary (MBLJ) embedded within southwesterly monsoon flow northern South China Sea at approximately 925 level, and an orographically induced 1 km level off northwestern Taiwan coast (e.g., barrier (BJ)). The characteris...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is an inflammatory disorder, in which neurons become demyelinated. to date, its etiology has remained unknown. nevertheless, certain features are inspected to provoke ms. for instance, improper function of immune cells is widely believed to be the basis of such disorder. in this concept, ms is stated as an autoimmune disease, which was asserted by major of studies, as cd...

background: family planning is a lifestyle that is selected voluntarily and is based on the knowledge, attitude and responsible decision making by couples in order to promote the health and welfare of the family and the advancement of the society. in this regard, family planning counseling plays an important role in making informed decisions if used properly and in a responsible way. detection ...

This research-in-progress paper investigates the impact of social structures in virtual worlds (VWs) on the diffusion of innovations within them. Research has illustrated that innovation diffusion takes place within virtual worlds. VWs facilitate the emergence of purposeful communities which support the (often real-world) activities of their members including the development and adoption of inn...

Power consumption is the predominant challenge in modern high-performance systems and is becoming increasingly important due to mobile applications. High power consumption leads to decreased battery lifetime, cooling challenges which limit form factors, and large on-chip temperatures which can decrease reliability. While stand-by and idle power can be minimized with many techniques, active-mode...

NiSi nanocrystals of high density and good uniformity were synthesized by vapor–solid–solid growth in a gas source molecular beam epitaxy system using Si2H6 as Si precursor and Ni as catalyst. A metal– oxide–semiconductor memory device with NiSi nanocrystal–Al2O3/SiO2 double-barrier structure was fabricated. Large memory window and excellent retention at both room temperature and high temperatu...

Advanced high-temperature cooling applications such as heat-pipe-cooled leading edges may often require the elevated-temperature capability of carbon/silicon carbide (C/SiC) or carbon/carbon (C/C) composites in combination with the hermetic capability of metallic tubes. In some applications, it may be advantageous to co-process metallic tubes with the composite. Under those conditions, it is im...

For several reasons, Java is not the most obvious language for embedded systems. It requires much more memory than most other languages and even with JIT compilers, it runs a lot slower. Therefore, systems running Java applications are more expensive than systems with the same functionality running natively. In many embedded systems industries (consumer electronics, networking, etc.), each addi...

 We are working on scheduling of garbage collector as a concurrent thread for time-constrained applications in Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). We have implemented an incremental garbage collector with fine-grained write barrier in MONO, an opensource implementation of CLI. Our collector is based on existing conservative garbage collector of Boehm et al. By conducting benchmarking experim...

Four-level nonvolatile small-molecule 4F(2) memory cells were developed with a sandwiched device structure consisting of an upper Al electrode, upper small-molecule layer (Alq(3), aluminum tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)), Ni nanocrystals surrounded by NiO tunneling barrier, lower small-molecule layer, and bottom Al electrode. In particular, an in situ O(2)-plasma oxidation process following Ni evapor...