To enable the design of large capacity memory structures, novel memory technologies such as non-volatile memory (NVM) and novel fabrication approaches, e.g., 3D stacking and multi-level cell (MLC) design have been explored. The existing modeling tools, however, cover only a few memory technologies, technology nodes and fabrication approaches. We present DESTINY, a tool for modeling 2D/3D memori...

In this essay, the author shares his personal reflections gleaned from a lifetime of research with ayahuasca, and speculates on the societal, political, planetary, and evolutionary implications of humanity's aeons-old symbiosis with this shamanic plant. The thesis is developed that at this critical historical juncture, ayahuasca has developed a strategy to broadcast its message to a wider world...

Destiny is a simple, direct, low cost mission to determine the properties of dark energy by obtaining a cosmologically deep supernova (SN) type Ia Hubble diagram. Its science instrument is a 1.65m space telescope, featuring a grism-fed near-infrared (NIR) (0.85-1.7 m) survey camera/spectrometer with a 0.12 square degree field of view (FOV) covered by a mosaic of 16 2k 2k HgCdTe arrays. For maxi...

The traditional consideration of architectural history as a linear process, where one style successively replaces another, still dominates, but does not explain many phenomena. V.S. Goryunov substantiated fundamentally different, non-linear model the historical process in architecture on basis 19th – early 20th centuries. V. S. and M. P. Tubli proposed stylistic polyphony with introduction conc...

the effect of translation on political, economic and cultural relations is an undeniable issue. translation is one of the ways to convey information and knowledge all over the world. moreover, it is a way to establish relationships among nations with different languages. iran and armenia are two very close peoples that have had deep relations from antiquity and share a common culture, backgroun...

In the West, it is increasingly difficult to talk about years of crisis Soviet Union, processes that they set in motion, as well turning point 1991, people who participated firsthand, with their hopes, courage, illusions and fears. Moreover, also 1990s experienced Russia any hope being understood. Indeed, this era now seems light-years away, face what has happened since 2000s. Even scholars can...