Experiments on quantum point contacts have highlighted an anomalous conductance plateau around 0.7(2e(2)/h), with features suggestive of the Kondo effect. Here, an Anderson model for transport through a point contact analyzed in the Kondo limit. Hybridization to the band increases abruptly with energy but decreases with valence, so that the background conductance and the Kondo temperature T(K) ...

Intracellular polyamines inhibit the strongly rectifying IRK1 potassium channel by a mechanism different from that of a typical ionic pore blocker such as tetraethylammonium. As in other K(+) channels, in the presence of intracellular TEA, the IRK1 channel current decreases with increasing membrane voltage and eventually approaches zero. However, in the presence of intracellular polyamines, the...

Polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal (BPLC) has become an increasingly important technology trend for information display and photonic applications. BPLC exhibits several attractive features, such as reasonably wide temperature range, submillisecond gray-to-gray response time, no need for alignment layer, optically isotropic voltageoff state, and large cell gap tolerance when an in-plan...

This paper discuss about fault diagnosis (FD) techniques for dynamic systems. Case Based Reasoning (knowledge-based technique) has been applied in the Electrical Systems domain in order to diagnose the origin of voltage faults. In other hand, residual generation (analytical model-based technique) was accomplished using Dynamic Time Warping and a laboratory plant has been used to test this appro...

For the deficiencies of traditional stress detection methods for steel strips in industrial production, this paper proposes a non-contact stress detection scheme based on the magnetoelastic effect. The theoretical model of the transmission-type stress detection is established, in which the output voltage and the tested stress obey a linear relation. Then, a stress detection device is built for ...

This paper consolidated the improvements in mechanical properties from the past literature available using Vibratory welding technique. Vibratory welding is a promising method in eliminating the disadvantages experienced by the traditional welding like residual stress due to the electrical energy input which induces vibrations by varying the input parameters voltage, current, amplitude and freq...

This paper presents the modified design of a bidirectional electrothermal chevron beam microtweezer proposed by J. K. Luo [1]. The original design has been modified to include inward in-plane motion. Thus, the modified design is capable of bidirectional motion. The structures are designed and simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics 4.2a. The bidirectional chevron beam microtweezer shows an in-plane...

One hundred and one children with cystic fibrosis had detailed studies of the vectorcardiograms and pulmonary function tests. The vectorcardiographic diagnoses were (1) right ventricular hypertrophy (14 patients), (2) right ventricular hypertrophv plus abnormally posterior vector (24 patients), (3) abnormally posterior vector (26 patients), (4) low voltage (nine patients), and (5) tracing withi...

We report here the first direct measurements of persistent inward currents (PICs) in rat hindlimb motoneurons, obtained from ketamine-xylazine anesthetized rats during slow voltage ramps performed by single-electrode somatic voltage clamp. Most motoneurons expressed PICs and current-voltage (I-V) relations often contained a negative-slope region (NSR; 13/19 cells). PICs activated at -52.7 ± 3.8...

A novel two-electrode biosignal amplifier circuit is demonstrated by using a composite transimpedance amplifier input stage with active current feedback. Micropower, low gain-bandwidth product operational amplifiers can be used, leading to the lowest reported overall power consumption in the literature for a design implemented with off-the-shelf commercial integrated circuits (11 μW). Active cu...