MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) is an observational cohort study to determine the prevalence, correlates, and progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease. MESA participants were 45 to 84 years of age and were asymptomatic of clinical cardiovascular disease in 2000 to 2002 at recruitment and were studied in 6 centers in the United States. This ambitious setting offered the uni...

This paper describes the formal specifications of garbage collection in the programming language Cedar Mesa. They were developed as part of the process of identifying a safe subset of Mesa for which garbage collection was possible. The purpose of the specifications was to provide a precise definition of safety, along with criteria for checking the safety of proposed language features. Thus the ...

In this article we review the fundamental properties and applications of sidewall GaAs tunnel junctions. Heavily impurity-doped GaAs epitaxial layers were prepared using molecular layer epitaxy (MLE), in which intermittent injections of precursors in ultrahigh vacuum were applied, and sidewall tunnel junctions were fabricated using a combination of device mesa wet etching of the GaAs MLE layer ...

We consider the temperature dependence of the exciton linewidth in single InAs self-assembled quantum dots. We show that in cases where etched mesas are used to isolate the dots, the magnitude of the linear temperature coefficient and its dependence on mesa size are described well by exciton scattering by acoustic phonons whose lifetimes are given by phonon scattering from the mesa interfaces. ...

This data descriptor introduces a transcriptome dataset of strawberry plant left exposed to an LED light treatment and hormones Methyl Jasmonate (MeJA) Salicylate (MeSA). These consist (four libraries) obtained from the leaves plants treated with LEDs blue red spectrums (MeSA), which allowed us conduct further analysis growth development processes plants. In addition, we describe detailed proce...

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We have tested a new kind of Fabry-Perot long-baseline optical resonator proposed to reduce the thermal noise sensitivity of gravitational wave interferometric detectors--the "mesa beam" cavity--whose flat top beam shape is achieved by means of an aspherical end mirror. We present the fundamental mode intensity pattern for this cavity and its distortion due to surface imperfections and tilt mis...

Parallel molecular dynamics simulations are performed to determine atomic-level stresses in Si(111)/Si(3)N4(0001) and Si(111)/a-Si3N4 nanopixels. Compared to the crystalline case, the stresses in amorphous Si3N4 are highly inhomogeneous in the plane of the interface. In silicon below the interface, for a 25 nm square mesa stress domains with triangular symmetry are observed, whereas for a recta...

We propose a universal MEMS technology platform for fabricating integrable passive components for radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits. This platform is based on a novel surface-micromachined MicroElevator by Self-Assembly (MESA) techque. Both high-Q inductors and variable capacitors can be realized by the MESA technology. A surface-micromachined spiral inductor that is raised by 250 pm abo...