To find a suitable treatment in the preparation of Nb surface for platinum electrodeposition, different methods such as thermal oxidation, anodic oxidation, mechanical roughening, and mechanical roughening with subsequent anodic etching were examined. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to study the chemical composition of depth analysis of the surface. Moreover, in order to examine the m...

We prove that synthetic lower Ricci bounds for metric measure spaces -- both in the sense of Bakry-\'Emery and Lott-Sturm-Villani can be characterized by various functional inequalities including local Poincar\'e inequalities, logarithmic Sobolev dimension independent Harnack inequality, inequality. More generally, these equivalences will proven setting time-dependent provide a characterization...

Lakshminarayan Srinivasan, Uri T. Eden, Sanjoy K. Mitter, and Emery N. Brown Center for Nervous System Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Harvard/MIT D...

Five cases are presented wherein hypnosis was used by the emergency physician either as the primary mode of treatment or as an adjuvant to standard medical care. Common hypnotic phenomena (ep, anesthesia, analpesia), as well as novel effects, are reported. The technique used for trance induction and utllizatlon is briefly outlined, and criteria are set forth for the bedside reco9nltlon of hypno...

A new species of the ant genus Temnothorax Forel, 1890 - Temnothorax pilagens sp. n. is described from eastern North America. T. pilagens sp. n. is an obligate slave-making ant with two known hosts: T. longispinosus (Roger, 1863) and T. ambiguus (Emery, 1895). A differential diagnosis against Temnothorax duloticus (Wesson, 1937), the other dulotic congener from the Nearctic, is presented and a ...