There has been a search for alternative dielectrics with significantly increased dielectric constants, K, which increases in physical thickness proportional to K, and therefore would significantly reduce direct tunneling. However, increases in k to values of 15–25 in transition metal and rare earth oxides are generally accompanied by decreases in the conduction band offset energy with respect t...

The second law of thermodynamics governs the direction of heat transport, which provides the foundational definition of thermodynamic Clausius entropy. The definitions of entropy are further generalized for the phenomenological heat transport models in the frameworks of classical irreversible thermodynamics and extended irreversible thermodynamics (EIT). In this work, entropic functions from ma...

BACKGROUND Neurologic impairments in female heterozygotes for X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) are poorly understood. Our aims were to describe the neurological and neurophysiological manifestations of a cohort of X-ALD heterozygotes, and to correlate them with age, disease duration, mutations, X-inactivation and serum concentrations of a marker of neuronal damage, neuron-specific enolase ...

A metal-insulator-metal structure resistive switching device based on H0.5Z0.5O₂ (HZO) thin film deposited by pulse laser deposition (PLD) has been investigated for resistive random access memory (RRAM) applications. The devices demonstrated bistable and reproducible unipolar resistive switching (RS) behaviors with an extremely high OFF/ON ratio over 5400. The retention property had no degradat...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to investigate the pathophysiology of oxaliplatin-induced neurotoxicity using clinical nerve excitability techniques that provide information about axonal ion channel function. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Excitability studies were combined with standard nerve conduction studies and clinical assessment in 22 patients undergoing treatment with oxaliplatin. RESULTS Exc...

First-principles density functional theory, combined with the Monte Carlo method, predicts that ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}{\mathrm{B}}_{2}$ monolayer of MBene family has a stable columnar antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground state. Below critical temperature, ${T}_{c}=115$ K in equilibrium, spins rotate by same amount every other column Fe atoms, but they retain direction column. Under applied tensile strain...

There has been a search for alternative dielectrics with significantly increased dielectric constants, K, which increases physical thickness in proportion to K, and therefore would significantly reduce direct tunneling. However, increases in K to values of 15–25 in transition metal and rare earth oxides are generally accompanied by decreases in the conduction band offset energy with respect to ...

The pattern of complete right bundle-branch block (RBBB) combined with abnormal left axis deviation is shown to be the predominant conduction abnormality during orthograde (antegrade) conduction in patients who have experienced transient or permanent complete heart block (59% of a series of 44 patients). Sequential records on the same patient are presented showing progressive development of the...

The electrocardiograms of 50 patients after isolated aortic valve replacement were examined. Two main types of postoperative QRS changes were found. In I3 patients intraventricular conduction defects developed, predominantly in theform ofa left anterior hemiblock as an isolated lesion or combined with other focal blocks. The other prominent finding was the appearance of abnormal Q waves suggest...