Carcinogenic and systemic health effects of arsenic exposure in drinking water are well documented. This study estimated the risk associated with chronic consumption of water with high concentrations of arsenic in children and adults living in six Andean locations, in Chile. Concentrations of arsenic in the drinking water were analyzed between 2014 and 2017 based on health authority reports and...

Ted Sider’s paper “Hell and Vagueness” challenges a certain conception of Hell by arguing that it is inconsistent with God’s justice. Sider’s inconsistency argument works only when supplemented by additional premises. Key to Sider’s case is a premise that the properties upon which eternal destinies supervene are “a smear,” i.e., they are distributed continuously among individuals in the world. ...

Achieving low conduction loss and good channel mobility is crucial for SiC MOSFETs. However, basic planar MOSFETs provide challenges due to their high density of interface traps significant gate-to-drain capacitance. In order enhance the reverse recovery property device, a Schottky barrier diode (SBD) was added source contact area, top current spreading region, trench-etched double-diffused MOS...

Two percu taneous and min imal ly invasive means of abla t ing small hepatoce l lu lar carc inomas (HCC) are (1) injection of e thanol guided by u l t r asonography (US),1 and (2) inters t i t ia l h y p e r t h e r m i a induced by an electrode needle ac t iva ted by rad iof requency (RF) or by inser t ion of a laser fiber, also unde r US guidance. 2, 3 The ex ten t of necrosis induced by inte...