Au-Sn solid–liquid interdiffusion (SLID) bonding is a novel and promising interconnect technology for high-temperature applications. This article gives a review over previously published work on Au-Sn SLID bonding. An overview of the crystal phases and the thermomechanical properties of the Au-Sn phases relevant for Au-Sn SLID bonding is given. A summary of the bonding conditions used during Au...

The Sn atom in the title compound, [Sn(C(4)H(9))(2)(C(7)H(14)NS(2))(2)], exists in a tetra-hedral C(2)S(2)Sn coordination geometry. The geometry is distorted towards skew-trapezoidal-bipyramidal owing to the proximity of the double-bond S atoms [Sn-S = 2.521 (2) and Sn⋯S = 2.933 (2) Å]. The Sn atom lies on a special position of mm2 site symmetry and the tin-bound n-butyl chain is disordered abo...

We present observations of SN 1997cy, a supernova (SN) discovered as part of the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster SN Search (Reiss et al. 1998), which does not easily fit into the traditional classification scheme for supernovae. This object's extraordinary optical properties and coincidence with GRB970514, a short duration gamma ray burst (GRB), suggest a second case, after SN 1998bw/GRB980425, for...

Define Sn(R;T ) to be the number of permutations on n letters which avoid all patterns in the set R and contain each pattern in the multiset T exactly once. In this paper we enumerate Sn({α}; {β}) and Sn(∅; {α, β}) for all α 6= β ∈ S3. We show that there are five Wilf-like classes associated with each of Sn({α}; {β}) and Sn(∅; {α, β}) for all α 6= β ∈ S3.

PURPOSE The importance of gamma probe detection (GPD) combined with vital dye for sentinel node (SN) biopsy is well accepted. We evaluated the efficacy of patent blue dye (PBD) in identifying inguinal SN. METHODS Ninety-four cutaneous melanoma patients with inferior extremity lesions were submitted to SNB according to a established protocol. Patients were randomized in two groups: Blue group,...

BACKGROUND Inspiratory muscle strength in patients with neuromuscular disorders can be assessed using sniff inspiratory nasal pressure (Pn(sn)) and maximum inspiratory mouth pressure (PI(max)). However, the relative merits of Pn(sn) against PI(max) are not known in patients with severe neuromuscular disease. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether severity of disease modifies the relation between Pn...

theoretically predictionq of the solvent effects of i - pentadecanoyl - 2 -docosahexaennyl - sn - glycerol3 - phosphocholin have been studied using 'jamey-lock quantiun chemical approximation and std - 30basis set within the onsager self-consistent reaction field (scrs') model all optimized conformers of i -pentadecanoyl - 2 -docosahexaenoyi - sn - glycerol 3 - phosphocholin as well as their to...

Building on the work of P.N. Norton, we give combinatorial formulae for two maximal decompositions of the identity into orthogonal idempotents in the 0-Hecke algebra of the symmetric group, CH0(SN ). This construction is compatible with the branching from H0(SN−1) to H0(SN ). Résumé. En s’appuyant sur le travail de P.N. Norton, nous donnons des formules combinatoires pour deux décompositions ma...

Let Sn be the set of all permutations on [n] := {1, 2, . . . , n}. We denote by κn the smallest cardinality of a subset A of Sn+1 that “covers” Sn, in the sense that each π ∈ Sn may be found as an order-isomorphic subsequence of some π′ in A. What are general upper bounds on κn? If we randomly select νn elements of Sn+1, when does the probability that they cover Sn transition from 0 to 1? Can w...

A best evidence topic was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was whether silver nitrate (SN) is an effective means of pleurodesis. A total of 42 papers were identified using the reported search, of which 8 represented the best evidence to address the clinical question. The authors, journal, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relev...