Technologies for silicon process integration of infrared (IR) detector systems are driven by pursuits of low cost and high performance that are required for commercial viability. The high device yields that are commonplace in standard silicon integrated circuit (IC) manufacture are very attractive when applied to fabricating optoelectronic components with comparably superior uniformity and yiel...

STUDY OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN For the APHEA study, the short term effects of air pollutants on human health were investigated in a comparable way in various European cities. Daily mortality was used as one of the health effects indicators. This report aims to demonstrate the steps in epidemiological model building in this type of time series analysis aimed at detecting short term effects under a p...

Nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals.These devices used in medical centers and hospitals for monitoring and treatment of patients require periodic safety and performance checking in order to have confidence in their functioning and operation. Physicians need better accurate medical measurements in order to better diagnose diseases, monitor pati...

Introduction: The presence of ethane in liquidfilled lakes on Titan was confirmed by the Cassini Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) in 2008, and has been investigated in further detail by the Cassini radar instrument [1,2]. Radar sounding, infrared absorption, and modeling suggest that the lakes are predominantly liquid methane and ethane, with trace amounts of propane, butane, ot...