complications, inflammatory bowel disease, pelvic malignancy, pelvic irradiation, pelvic surgery, or other traumatic causes (1-4). Also, it may cause distressing symptoms including vaginal discharge with vaginitis, continual leakage of flatus and feces through the vagina, severe skin excoriation, as well as incontinence and dysparenunia. Treatment for an enterovaginal fistula depends on the loc...

The lithium-air battery has been proposed as the next-generation energy-storage device with a much higher energy density compared with the conventional lithium-ion battery. However, lithium-air batteries currently suffer enormous problems including parasitic reactions, low recyclability in air, degradation, and leakage of liquid electrolyte. Besides, they are designed into a rigid bulk structur...

To save layout area for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design in the SOC era, test chip with large size NMOS devices placed under bond pads has been fabricated in 0.35-μm one-poly-four-metal (1P4M) 3.3V CMOS process for verification. The bond pads had been drawn with different layout patterns on the inter-layer metals to investigate the effect of bonding stress on the active devices u...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design for mixed-voltage I/O interfaces has been one of the key challenges of system-on-achip (SOC) implementation in nanoscale CMOS processes. The on-chip ESD protection circuit for mixed-voltage I/O interfaces should meet the gate-oxide reliability constraints and prevent the undesired leakage current paths. This paper presents an overview on the desig...

The voltage grade of electrical transmission line is getting higher and higher, consequently, flashover of transmission insulators is getting more and more severe in high-voltage (HV) and ultra-high-voltage (UHV) systems under serious pollutions, which menaces the safety of power transmission system heavily. The crux to enhance the security of power system is to discover ways of monitoring stat...

BACKGROUND Chylothorax is a relatively rare but well-known complication of thoracic surgery. CASE PRESENTATION A 70-year-old man underwent right upper and middle bilobectomy and systematic lymph node dissection through a posterolateral thoracotomy for lung cancer. On the second postoperative day, he developed chylothorax that was treated with dietary management and pleurodesis. The discharge ...

Shipwrecks around the world contain unknown volumes of hazardous substances which, if discharged, could harm the marine environment. Shipwrecks can deteriorate for a number of reasons, including corrosion and physical impact from trawling and other activities, and the probability of a leakage increases with time. Before deciding on possible mitigation measures, there are currently few comprehen...

Authenticated encryption schemes in practice have to be robust against adversaries that have access to various types of leakage, for instance decryption leakage on invalid ciphertexts (protocol leakage), or leakage on the underlying primitives (side channel leakage). This work includes several novel contributions: we augment the notion of nonce-base authenticated encryption with the notion of c...

Lead-free dielectric thin-film capacitors with desirable energy storage density are gathering attention due to the increasing environmental concern and integrating electronic devices. We here reported a series of new highly-orientated (1-x)NaNbO3-xBaHfO3 (x<0.15) lead-free thin films prepared by sol-gel method, presented dependence their structural, electrical properties on x level BaHfO3. The ...