Dielectric breakdown (DB) controls the failure, and increasingly function, of microelectronic devices. Standard imaging techniques, which generate contrast based on physical structure, struggle to visualize this electronic process. Here in situ scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) beam-induced current (EBIC) DB Pt/HfO2/Ti valence change memory devices is reported. STEM EBIC directly...

The development of data fusion systems capable of incorporating soft humangenerated data into the fusion process is an emerging trend in the fusion community, motivated mainly by asymmetric warfare situations where the observational opportunities for traditional hard sensors are restricted. This paper describes an extension of our prototype soft/hard data fusion system, based on RFS theory, fro...

We present a lightweight framework for processing uncertain emergent knowledge that comes from multiple resources with varying relevance. The framework is essentially RDF-compatible, but allows also for direct representation of contextual features (e.g., provenance). We support soft integration and robust querying of the represented content based on well-founded notions of aggregation, similari...

This short review aims at presenting some recent illustrative examples of spontaneous nucleolipids self-assembly. High-resolution structural investigations reveal the diversity and complexity of assemblies formed by these bioinspired amphiphiles, resulting from the interplay between aggregation of the lipid chains and base-base interactions. Nucleolipids supramolecular assemblies are promising ...

the aggregation of protein is the most prevalent and the most disturbing kind of instability and this challenge exists in almost every stage of the development of protein drug. the presence of insoluble aggregations in protein drugs will make the supply of the product a tough job. this study identifies the inhibition of the folded interferon beta 1-b’s aggregation with the assistance of some ex...

our aim in this paper is to introduce the notion of fuzzy soft near-subtraction semigroupsand fuzzy soft ideals of near-subtraction semigroups. we discuss some important properties of these new fuzzy algebraic structure and investigate some examples and counter examples.

epidemiologic studies show that the cardiovascular diseases are associated with multiple factors such as raised serum total cholesterol, increased ldl, increased platelet aggregation, hypertension and smoking. in-vitro studies have confirmed the ability of some plants of allium species to reduce these parameters. therefore, we evaluated anti-platelet aggregation effect of some allium species (a...

background and objective: nitric oxide (no) plays a role in thermoregulation and growth of protozoa. this work aimed to add the molecule no in physiology of protozoa in contact with abused narcotic substances. materials and methods: a sedative drug, morphine, was infused into a cell chamber containing paramecia . the cell response to the drug was recorded promptly after drug infusion using a po...

energy consumption is considered as a critical issue in wireless sensor networks (wsns). batteries of sensor nodes have limited power supply which in turn limits services and applications that can be supported by them. an efcient solution to improve energy consumption and even trafc in wsns is data aggregation (da) that can reduce the number of transmissions. two main challenges for da are: (i)...