The relationship between detection threshold of inspiratory resistive loads and the peaks of the respiratory-related evoked potential (RREP) is unknown. It was hypothesized that the short-latency and long-latency peaks of the RREP would only be elicited by inspiratory loads that exceeded the detection threshold. The detection threshold for inspiratory resistive loads was measured in healthy sub...

X-ray activity of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters may result from the heating of their magnetic corona by direct currents dissipated by magnetic reconnection. We investigate the possibility that X-ray flares and bursts observed from AXPs and SGRs result from magnetospheric reconnection events initiated by development of tearing mode in magnetically-dominated relativistic pl...

Planar diodes fabricated with nano-structured silver oxide thin film show resistive switching effects. These structures can be programmed by voltage into two distinct resistive states and they are promising candidates for resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices. Cycle endurance on/off ration and charge retention are high. This wok provides insight into the mechanisms leading to the memory...

We investigate in this work the formulation of composite resistive pastes based on epoxy resins and graphite for micro-heater manufacturing via thick-film technology. These resistive pastes are designed for screenprinting onto a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate; further coating with expandable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a composite based on an elastomeric matrix and expandable microspher...

Resistive respiratory loading is an established stimulus for the induction of experimental dyspnoea. In comparison to unloaded breathing, resistive loaded breathing alters end-tidal CO2 (P(ET)CO2), which has independent physiological effects (e.g. upon cerebral blood flow). We investigated the subjective effects of resistive loaded breathing with stabilized P(ET)CO2 (isocapnia) during manual co...

Development of new electrodes is the key element for the improvement of the high rate Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC). In the particular case of resistive electrodes, the fabrication of these devices is a challenging problem from a material science point of view. The combination of resistivity, permittivity and stability requirements is really hard to satisfy for any known material. Respecting t...

BiFeO3 based MIM structures with Ti-implanted Pt bottom electrodes and Au top electrodes have been fabricated on Sapphire substrates. The resulting metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures show bipolar resistive switching without an electroforming process. It is evidenced that during the BiFeO3 thin film growth Ti diffuses into the BiFeO3 layer. The diffused Ti effectively traps and releases oxyg...

Magnetic reconnection based on the resistive and Hall MHD equations are reviewed. It is found from both theory and simulation that the impulsive reconnection can be achieved in the resistive and Hall MHD by imposing suitable boundary conditions. All results from resistive and Hall MHD indicate that reconnection processes contain two phases: slow growth phase and impulsive phase, and between the...