This paper presents a mistake in work fuction algorithm of k-server conjecture. That is, the monotonicity of the work fuction is not always true.

Title of Dissertation: FABRICATION AND MEASUREMENT OF REGENERABLE LOW WORK FUNCTION DISPENSER PHOTOCATHODES Nathan A. Moody, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation Directed By: Professor & Chair, Patrick G. O’Shea Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Laser-switched photoemitters are a source of electrons for high current applications such as free electron lasers. Laser-modulated p...

Polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) has been used as the gate material for MOSFETs for several decades. This is because it is highly compatible with CMOS processing, and its work function can be selectively modified by ion implantation of the appropriate dopants. The gate-depletion effect, which increases the equivalent SiO2 thickness (EOT) of the gate dielectric by several Angstroms and thereby ...

We have used energy-filtered x-ray photoelectron emission microscopy (XPEEM) and synchrotron radiation to measure the grain orientation dependence of the work function of a sintered niobium-doped strontium titanate ceramic. A significant spread in work function values is found. Grain orientation and surface reducing/oxidizing conditions are the main factors in determining the work function. Ene...

Competitive swimmers require a high aerobic capacity to support the sustained performance of severe exercise. Maximal oxygen uptake values and blood lactate concentrations were measured in ten male and fifteen female swimmers from the Scottish National and Youth Squads 1981-82. Lung function tests were also performed to determine pulmonary efficiency. The results of these studies were compared ...

A program is a compound of various subroutines playing different roles. In this paper, we study how to attest the execution of those mission-critical subroutines whose execution is the basis to establish trust. Our results include a new attestation scheme called function attestation. Given a function F of a program P , the proposed scheme allows for an efficient and secure attestation by using ...

Experimental studies were conducted into the use of nanosecond scale voltage pulses in an inert gas for thermionic power conversion. These studies show that practical materials for the electrodes can provide a positive work function difference when operating in an inert gas environment. Using these materials it has been shown that significant power densities can be achieved. This method of ther...

Inverse lighting is a technique for recovering the lighting environment of a scene from a single image of an object. Conventionally, inverse lighting assumes that a pixel value is proportional to radiance value, i.e. the response function of a camera is linear. Unfortunately, however, consumer cameras usually have unknown and nonlinear response functions, and therefore conventional inverse ligh...

We obtain the exact nonequilibrium work generating function (NEWGF) for a small system consisting of a massive Brownian particle connected to internal and external springs. The external work is provided to the system for a finite-time interval. The Jarzynski equality, obtained in this case directly from the NEWGF, is shown to be valid for the present model, in an exact way regardless of the rat...