To investigate an amorphous structure of Ge(2)Sb(2)Te(5) that satisfies the 8-N rule (so-called 'ideal glass'), we perform alternative melt-quench simulations on Si(2)As(2)Se(5) and replace atoms in the final structure with Ge-Sb-Te. The resulting structures have salient features of the 8-N rule such as the tetrahedral configuration for all Ge atoms and the localized Te lone pairs at the valenc...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to investigate the mechanism of restenosis and the predictive value of post-procedural minimum stent area (MSA) in the side branch (SB) after coronary bifurcation stenting. BACKGROUND The mechanism of restenosis, especially at the SB ostium, has not been fully elucidated. METHODS This study examined 73 bifurcation lesions with post-procedural and 9-month follow-...

Changes in sexual bother (SB) following radical prostatectomy (RP) negatively affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of prostate cancer survivors. However, post-operative SB tends to be neglected whereas sexual function (SF) is thoroughly assessed in clinical practice and few studies have focused on and evaluated patients' SB. We retrospectively reviewed 2 345 consecutive patients who un...

A somatic hybrid, CBP-233, between resistant Solanum bulbocastanum (SB-22) and susceptible S. tuberosum (R4) was tested for resistance to Meloidogyne chitwoodi race 1. One week after inoculation, only 0.04-0.4% of the initial inoculum (Pi, 5,000 eggs) as second stage-juveniles infected SB-22 and CBP-233 root systems, compared to 2% in R4. After 8 weeks, the number of M. chitwoodi in SB-22 and C...

Ab initio calculations, based on norm-conserving pseudopotentials and density functional theory, have been performed to investigate the displacive Sb adsorption on the Si(0 0 1) surface with the (2 1) reconstruction. For the onemonolayer coverage of Sb, even though the formation of a pure Sb–Sb dimer is energetically more favorable than the interdiffusion of Sb into any of the second and third ...

Regular stibnite (Sb(2)S(3)) nanorods with diameters of 20-40 nm and lengths of 220-350 nm have been successfully synthesized by a sonochemical method under ambient air from an ethanolic solution containing antimony trichloride and thioacetamide. The as-prepared Sb(2)S(3) nanorods are characterized by employing techniques including X-ray powder diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, sca...