Evidence for synaptopathy, the acute loss of afferent auditory nerve terminals, and degeneration spiral ganglion cells associated with temporary threshold shift (TTS) in traditional laboratory animal models (e.g., mice, guinea pigs) has brought into question whether TTS should be considered a non-injurious form noise impact marine mammals. Laboratory studies also demonstrate that both neuropath...

The threshold voltage shift of a p-channel Ge/Si hetero-nanocrystal floating gate memory device was investigated both numerically and phenomenologically. The numerical investigations, by solving 2-D Poisson-Boltzmann equation, show that the presence of the Ge on Si dot tremendously prolongs the retention time, reflected by the time decay behavior of the threshold voltage shift. The increase of ...

Hand gesture recognition is very important to communicate in sign language. In this paper, an effective object tracking and hand gesture recognition method is proposed. This method is combination of two well-known approaches, the mean shift and the motion detection algorithm. The mean shift algorithm can track objects based on the color, then when hand passes the face occlusion happens. Several...

Simulations of threshold voltage shift of a p-channel Ge/Si heteronanocrystal floating gate memory device were carried out using both a numerical two-dimensional Poisson–Boltzmann method and an equivalent circuit model. The results show that the presence of a Ge dot on top of a Si dot significantly prolongs the retention time of the device, indicated by the time decay behavior of the threshold ...

The bias stress effect in pentacene organic thinfilm transistors has been investigated. The transistors utilize a thin gate dielectric based on an organic self-assembled monolayer and thus can be operated at low voltages. The bias stress-induced threshold voltage shift has been analyzed for different drain-source voltages. By fitting the timedependent threshold voltage shift to a stretched expo...