As transistors get smaller, the simulations require full quantum-mechanical treatments. Most such approaches have treated the transport as ballistic, ignoring the scattering that is known to occur in such devices. We present the results of a three-dimensional, self-consistent quantum simulation of a silicon nanowire transistor. In these simulations we have included phonon scattering through a r...

Christina Sommers chides “gender feminists” for ignoring what women actually want in order to promote what they believe women ought to want. Sommers, however, ignores the crucial distinction between what women choose, given their current alternatives and what women would choose if their options were less restrictive. The costs, benefits and risks of pursuing the same goals are different for wom...

Describing the probability densities of multi-object complexes by describing individual objects and their inter-object relationships leads to desirable locality without ignoring the context of an object. We describe a means of decomposing object variations into self effects and neighbor effects. We describe an approach for estimating the self and neighbor effect probability densities for each o...

In many studies, the alternative load path method (APM) has been used for progressive collapse analysis. In this method, one or several columns of the building are removed and the building response is investigated. This method ignores the initial local failure cause of building and this can affect the structural response. Investigation of ignoring the initial local failure cause of steel braced...

While self-tracking applications are often advertised with a healthier life and more movement scant studies investigate the effect of self-tracking and those few studies reported contradictory reactions of self-tracking users. Hence, we conducted 12 interviews with self-tracking users to find out which psychological mechanism explains the different responses. As a foundation the cognitive disso...