England’s junior doctors are planning more strikes. I hope that, in the High Court in September, the Justice for Health campaign succeeds in finding that the health secretary has no power to impose a contract. If not, the dispute will smoulder. Much public sympathy is still likely, but parts of the media will be predictably hostile. The new contract is unfair. It relies on misinterpreted statis...

BACKGROUND The healthcare industry is characterized by intensive, never-ending change occurring on a multitude of fronts. Success in such tumultuous environments requires healthcare providers to be proficient in myriad areas, including the manner in which they organize and deliver services. Less efficient designs drain precious resources and hamper efforts to deliver the best care possible to p...

Background: Drainage of any deep seated abscess often requires placement of catheters along with other conservative measures. These catheters are removed when the drainage volume reduces to clinically insignificant levels. However, if left in situ, there are potential complications. One such complication necessitating additional surgical procedure is highlighted in this case report. Malecot's c...

The intrinsic mechanisms of drain lag and current collapse in GaN-based high-electron-mobility transistors are studied by using two-dimensional numerical simulations. Simulated drain lag characteristics are in good agreement with reported experimental data. The dynamic pictures of trapping of hot electrons under drain-pulse voltages are discussed in detail. Hot-electron buffer-trapping effect p...

In this paper, we successfully fabricated Gate-Overlapped Lightly-doped Drain (GOLD) polycrystalline silicon thinfilm transistors (poly-Si TFTs) with selectively deposited spacers. Under appropriate deposition conditions, tungsten (W) films can be selectively deposited on poly-Si gate electrodes to form spacers without any additional etching process. Compared to the conventional poly-Si TFTs wi...

This paper presents a physic-based reverse short channel effect (RSCE) model for threshold voltage ( V th ) modeling of deep submicron MOSFETs. Unlike those conventional empirically-based RSCE models, the proposed model is derived based on two Gaussian pile-up profiles located at the source and drain edges of a MOSFET. The model has a simple compact form that can be utilized to characterize the...

This paper reports novel methods for accelerated ageing tests, with comparative reliability between them for stresses applied on power RF LDMOS: Thermal Shock Tests (TST), Thermal Cycling Tests (TCT), High Voltage Drain (HVD) and coupling thermal and electrical effects under various conditions. The investigation findings obtained after various ageing tests show the degradation and the device’s ...

BACKGROUND Unnecessary intra-abdominal drain insertion must be avoided, but little is known about the value of prophylactic drainage following laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (LDG). In this study, we investigated the significance of prophylactic drain placement after LDG for gastric cancer. METHODS Seventy-eight consecutive patients with gastric cancer who underwent LDG in our department were...

Background: Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA) are effective treatments for glenohumeral arthritis and rotator cuff arthropathy. Purpose: To determine if the use of a post operative closed-suction drain following TSA and RTSA affects hemoglobin levels, clinical outcomes, and complications. Hypothesis: Patients who did not receive a drain will have l...

One important trend in recent years is the reduction of the silicon film thickness in SOI devices. As results of scaling this parameter several benefits have been obtained such as the elimination of the kink effect, the suppression of short-channel effects, improved subthreshold characteristics, the enhancement of carrier mobility, suppression of punchthrough and drain current overshoot and so ...