We report on the morphological influence of solution-processed zinc oxide (ZnO) semiconductor films on the electrical characteristics of ZnO thin-film transistors (TFTs). Different film morphologies were produced by controlling the spin-coating condition of a precursor solution, and the ZnO films were analyzed using atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, a...

Homochirality of the biomolecules (D-sugars of DNA and RNA and L-amino acids of proteins) is a fundamental property of all life on Earth. Abiotic mechanisms yield racemic mixtures (D/L=1) of chiral molecules and after the death of an organism, the enantiopure chiral biomolecules slowly racemize. Several independent investigators have now established that the amino acids present in CI1 and CM2 c...

conclusions this study showed that aloe vera has antibacterial effects against e. coli, and can result in structural and physiological changes in this bacterium. objectives the aim of this research was to evaluate the effects of an aloe vera extract on the morphological and physiological properties of escherichia coli. patients and methods a clinical isolate of e. coli was obtained from a patie...

We introduce a scale-space causality theorem for regions of a image deened by watersheds of a gradient function modiied to retain only the local minima or maxima of its parent function. We then illustrate an application of the new theorem to the scale dependent extraction of texture elements from the nucleii of cervical cells. As background, in the next two subsections we introduce morphologica...

Being AGGLUTINATIVE or FLEXIVE are not properties of entire languages, nor are they simple properties. There is a whole range of simple properties, all logically independent of each other, prominently including those of separation/cumulation and invariance/variance. They are all properties of individual word forms, and again there is no logical necessity for these to agree in their property set...

There are a variety of approaches to case alternation in Finnish, including Vainikka 1989, Nelson 1998, Kiparsky 1998, 2001, and Kratzer 2004. These offer an account of the alternation between partitive and other structural cases (acc/nom) on nominals. The majority of the proposals focuses on a subset of the environments where case alternation is attested. I propose a Minimalist account which c...

In terrestrial pulmonate gastropods Cochlodina laminata, Monachoides incarnata, Helicigona lapicida, Arianta arbustorum, Cepaea hortensis, Trochulus hispidus and Succinea putris, the morphological properties of pupil camera-like eyes were studied for first time: location, spatial orientation, change in structure, shape, shape change, relative size, size. Several methods used work: making prepar...