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Ruthenium Based Nanoscale Contact Coatings for Magnetically Controlled MEMS Switches

Abstract—Magnetically controlled microelectromechanical system (MCMEMS) switches is one of the directions in the field of micropower switching technology. MCMEMS switches are a promising alternative to Hall sensors and reed switches. The most important parameter for MCMEMS is the contact resistance, which should have a minimum value and is to be stable for the entire duration of service life. The value and stability of the contact resistance is mainly determined by the contact coating material. This paper presents the research results of a contact coating based on nanoscale ruthenium films obtained by electrolytic deposition. As a result of the performed investigations, the deposition modes of ruthenium films are chosen, the regularities of the contact resistance change depending on the number of contact switching, and the coating roughness are established. It is shown that changing the coating roughness makes it possible to minimize the contact resistance.
Interactive Fusion of 360° Images for a Mirrored World

Reconstruction of the physical world in real time has been a grand challenge in computer graphics and 3D vision. In this paper, we introduce an interactive pipeline to reconstruct a mirrored world at two levels of detail. Given a pair of latitude and longitude coordinates, our pipeline streams and caches depth maps, street view panoramas, and building polygons from Google Maps and OpenStreetMap APIs. At a fine level of detail for close-up views, we render textured meshes using adjacent local street views and depth maps. When viewed from afar, we apply projection mappings to 3D geometries extruded from building polygons for a coarse level of detail. In contrast to teleportation, our system allows users to virtually walk through the mirrored world at the street level. We present an application of our approach by incorporating it into a mixed-reality social platform, Geollery, and validate our real-time strategies on various platforms including mobile phones, workstations, and head-mounted displays.
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON REFERENCE RANGE LEVELS IN THE U.S. POPULATION BY MEASUREMENT OF URINARY MONO-HYDROXY METABOLITES

We developed a gas chromatography/ isotope dilution high resolution mass spectrometry (GC/ID-HRMS) method for measuring 18 PAH metabolites representing 8 parent PAHs in 3 mL of urine at low part-per-trillion levels. We applied this method to the analysis of urine specimens from approximately 2400 people who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for the years 1999 and 2000 to determine levels for 14 PAH hydroxy metabolites of 7 parent compounds. Using this GC/ID-HRMS method, we found detectable concentrations for monohydroxy metabolite isomers of fluorene, phenanthrene, fluoranthene, and pyrene, and for chrysene, benzo[c]phenanthrene, and benz[a]anthracene. Some mono-hydroxy metabolite isomers of chrysene, benzo[c]phenanthrene, and benz[a]anthracene exhibitedlow detection frequencies which did not allow for geometric mean calculations. From our study, we established a reference range for the targeted PAHs in the general U.S. population.
Multi-Objective Calibration of a Distributed Hydrological Model in a Highly Glacierized Watershed in Central Asia

Understanding glacio-hydrological processes is crucial to water resources management, especially under increasing global warming. However, data scarcity makes it challenging to quantify the contribution of glacial melt to streamflow in highly glacierized catchments such as those in the Tienshan Mountains. This study aims to investigate the glacio-hydrological processes in the SaryDjaz-Kumaric River (SDKR) basin in Central Asia by integrating a degree-day glacier melt algorithm into the macro-scale hydrological Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. To deal with data scarcity in the alpine area, a multi-objective sensitivity analysis and a multi-objective calibration procedure were used to take advantage of all aspects of streamflow. Three objective functions, i.e., the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient of logarithms (LogNS), the water balance index (WBI), and the mean absolute relative difference (MARD), were considered. Results show that glacier and snow melt-related parameters are generally sensitive to all three objective functions. Compared to the original SWAT model, simulations with a glacier module match fairly well to the observed streamflow, with the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (NS) and R2 approaching 0.82 and an absolute percentage bias less than 1%. Glacier melt contribution to runoff is 30–48% during the simulation period. The approach of combining multi-objective sensitivity analysis and optimization is an efficient way to identify important hydrological processes and recharge characteristics in highly glacierized catchments.
Complete description of two‐photon (1+1’) ionization of NO deduced from rotationally resolved photoelectron angular distributions

Time‐of‐flight photoelectron spectroscopy has been used to record energy‐resolved photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) following (1+1’) resonance‐enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) of NO via the vi=1,Ni=22 rovibrational level of the A 2∑+ state. The PADs corresponding to single rotational states of the resulting molecular ion show a strong dependence on the change in ion core rotation ΔN(≡N+−Ni) and also on the angle between the linear polarization vectors of the two light beams. Broken reflection symmetry [I(θ,φ)≠I(−θ,φ)] is observed when the polarization vectors of the two light beams form an angle of 54.7°. A fit to the PADs provides a complete description of this molecular photoionization, namely, the magnitudes and phases of the radial dipole matrix elements that connect the intermediate state to the ‖lλ〉 photoelectron partial waves (Refs. 1 and 2). This information is then used to predict unobserved quantities, such as ion angular momentum alignment and the full three‐dimensional form of .
FINE DELIGNE–LUSZTIG VARIETIES AND ARITHMETIC FUNDAMENTAL LEMMAS

We prove a character formula for some closed fine Deligne–Lusztig varieties. We apply it to compute fixed points for fine Deligne–Lusztig varieties arising from the basic loci of Shimura varieties of Coxeter type. As an application, we prove an arithmetic intersection formula for certain diagonal cycles on unitary and GSpin Rapoport–Zink spaces arising from the arithmetic Gan–Gross–Prasad conjectures. In particular, we prove the arithmetic fundamental lemma in the minuscule case, without assumptions on the residual characteristic.
A Monolithic HV/HR-MAPS Detector with a Small Pixel Size of 50 µm x 50 µm for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade

This paper presents a HV/HR-MAPS detector developed in the framework of the HV-CMOS collaboration for the ATLAS Inner Tracker update of the HL-LHC era. It was fabricated with a 150 nm HV-CMOS process which includes a layer to isolate the bulk of the PMOS transistors from the collecting node of the sensor. All the front-end electronics are integrated in the pixel, which is of only 50 µm x 50 µm, and include a preamplifier, shaper, discriminator and digital block with FEI3 column drain architecture.
Signatures of carrier multiplication in the frequency resolved fluorescence spectra from polaritons

Using the micro-cavity coupled to weakly confined excitons in quantum dots we investigated the signatures of carrier multiplication in the single and two-photon emitted frequency resolved fluorescence. Those are compared to the spectra provided by the conventional multi-photon induced fluorescence. The two processes are distinguished by the statistics of the initial polariton distribution. We argue that exciton emission spectra turned out to be CM insensitive, while the polaritons emission demonstrates strong spectral signatures of the CM. When the polaritonic effect dominates the confinement-boosted excitons' nonlinearities, increasing quantum yield leads to consecutive appearance of Rabi multiplets. The correlation spectra reveal the formation of more multiplets as compared to the single photon emission. When the confinement increases the multiplets start to overlap and their classification requires transient measurements of the spectral snapshots. These are based on the discrete Auger lifetimes of the multi-excitons.
Testing for independence in a two-way table

The classical chi-square test for independence in a two-way contingency table often rejects the independence hypothesis at an extremely small significance level, particularly when the sample size is large. This paper proposes some alternative distributions to independence, to help interpret the x2 statistic in such situations. The uniform alternative, in which every possible contingency table of the given dimension and sample size receives equal probability, leads to the volume test, as originally suggested in a regression context by H. Hotelling. Exponential family theory is used to generate a class of intermediate alternatives between independence and uniformity, leading to a random effects model for contingency tables.
Magnetic-time model at off-season germination

Abstract Effect of static magnetic field on germination of mung beans is described. Seeds of mung beans, were exposed in batches to static magnetic fields of 87 to 226 mT intensity for 100 min. Magnetic time constant - 60.743 Th (Tesla hour) was determined experimentally. High value of magnetic time constant signifies lower effect of magnetic field on germination rate as this germination was carried out at off-season (13°C). Using decay function, germination magnetic constant was calculated. There was a linear increase in germination magnetic constant with increasing intensity of magnetic field. Calculated values of mean germination time, mean germination rate, germination rate coefficient, germination magnetic constant, transition time, water uptake, indicate that the impact of applied static magnetic field improves the germination of mung beans seeds even in off-season
The Trouble with Neurobiological Explanations of Mind

Neuroist literature dresses psychological narratives up with neuroscience facts. But there are fundamental differences between the languages of the mind and the brain, so ad hoc devices paper over the gaps. These include taking words out of their proper contexts; equating the conceptual architecture of psychology with the neural architecture of the brain; mimicking the format of scientific research papers; and exalting paradox to produce a thrilling sense of mystery. In addition there are outright errors that are hard for nonneuroscientists to detect. Neuroism is a bid for status by nonnatural science disciplines such as psychoanalysis.
Improved PSO Algorithm for Training of Neural Network in Co-design Architecture

This paper proposes a new version of the standard particle swarm optimization (SPSO) algorithm to train a neural network (NN). The improved PSO, called the wPSOd_CV algorithm, is the improved version of the PSOd_CV algorithm presented in a previous study. The wPSOd_CV algorithm is introduced to solve the issue of premature convergence of the SPSO algorithm. The proposed wPSOd_CV algorithm is used in a co-design architecture. Experimental results confirmed the effectiveness of the NN trained by the wPSOd_CV algorithm when compared with the NN trained by the SPSO algorithm and the PSOd_CV algorithm concerning the minimum learning error and the recognition rates.
Gender Differences in the Relationship between Living alone and Depressive Symptoms in Elderly Korean Adults

Background: This study examined gender differences in the relationship between living alone and depressive symptoms in elderly Korean adults and the variables that influence this relationship. Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis using fourth-wave data from adults 65 yr of age or older who participated in the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. Depressive symptoms were measured using the 10-item short-form of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used. Results: After controlling for the factors of formal and informal social activities, financial support from children, employment, activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, self-rated health, frequency of meals, and gender, living alone (AOR=1.45, 95% CI =1.09–1.93, P=0.010) was an independent risk factor that contributed to depressive symptoms in late life. Living alone was more likely to elevate depressive symptoms in older women but not in older men. Conclusion: Gender differences in the depressive effect of living alone in late life may differ across diverse cultures.
Reproductive genetics MLPA and sequence analysis of DPY 19 L 2 reveals point mutations causing globozoospermia

Charles Coutton1,2,3,4, Raoudha Zouari5, Farid Abada1,2,4, Mariem Ben Khelifa1,2,4, Ghaya Merdassi6, Chema Triki7, Denise Escalier8, Laetitia Hesters9, Valérie Mitchell10, Rachel Levy11, Nathalie Sermondade11, Florence Boitrelle12, François Vialard12, Véronique Satre1,2,3, Sylviane Hennebicq1,2,3, Pierre-Simon Jouk2,3, Christophe Arnoult1,2, Joël Lunardi2,4,13, and Pierre F. Ray1,2,4,* Laboratoire AGIM, CNRS FRE3405, Equipe ‘Génétique, Infertilité et Thérapeutiques’, La Tronche F-38700, France Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble F-38000, France Département de Génétique et Procréation, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble cedex 9 F-38043, France UM de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire, Département de Biochimie Pharmacologie et Toxicologie, Pole de Biologie, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, F-38000, France Clinique de la Reproduction les Jasmins, 23, Av. Louis BRAILLE, 1002 Tunis, Tunisia Unité de Procréation Médicalement Assistée, Hôpital Aziza Othmana, Tunis, Tunisia CMRDP, 5, rue Ibn Hazem, 1002 Tunis Beledère, Tunisia INSERM U654, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, Paris F-75571, France APHP, Departments of Biology and Genetics of Reproduction, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France Institut de biologie de la reproduction – Spermiologie – CECOS, EA 40308 CHRU59035 Lille Cedex, France, and EA 4308 spermatogenesis and quality of the male gamete Histologie Embryologie Cytogénétique CECOS, CHU Jean Verdier, 93143 Bondy, France Department of Reproductive Biology, Centre Hospitalier Poissy Saint Germain, Poissy, France Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, INSERM U.836, F-38000 Grenoble, France
Health insurance in Rural Northern Thailand What is available What would be desirable

Rural livelihoods are exposed to many risks and thus vulnerable. This contribution analyses the relationship between livelihood risks, particularly health risks, and risk management strategies, especially health insurance. The analysis is based on a 2004-survey in the northern mountainous region of Thailand. The random sample consists of 200 farm households. Among the top-ten risks (81% of respondents mentioned them), three were related to health. Interestingly, the Thai Government already offers a mandatory Universal Health Care Scheme, which provides access to medical care for 30 Baht per visit. 75% of the population is insured under this scheme. Nevertheless, it lacks flexibility for the beneficiaries. For this reason, a Choice Based Conjoint analysis was employed to determine traits of health insurance desirable for the rural poor. The traits considered are the premium, the choice of hospital, and the coverage of the microinsurance police.
Preferences for healthy and environmentally sustainable food: Combining induced-value and home-grown experiments

This paper tests if Second Price Vickrey Auction (SPVA) and Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) are isomorphic and whether lack of isomorphism is due to value-elicitation, value-formation or both. We conduct an artefactual field experiment that combines induced-value (IV) and home-grown (HG) procedures using SPVA and DCE. IV preferences are elicited for tokens and HG preferences for multi-attribute lasagnes. Attributes are healthiness and environmental sustainability. Our results suggest that HG preferences differ across elicitation methods. This discrepancy is due to value-elicitation and value-formation. DCE is the most demand-revealing approach and provides the highest premiums for healthy and environmentally sustainable lasagnes. Acknowledgement :
Desert

There is a lot of ice on Antarctica and significant disputes are unlikely to hit until mid-century if not much, much later, but that does not mean states are not laying foundations. It is a cruel irony that much of the science that has enabled awareness of climate change and allowed glimpses of past climates has come through the sterling efforts of scientists working in state institutions — the British Antarctic Survey for example, whose presence in Antarctica is in large part funded to underline imperial claims over a continent thats true conquest and domestication can only come through massive climate change In the meantime the seas of the Far South — especially around the disputed Falkland Islands — are increasingly party to oil prospecting.
Optimal Capital Taxation with Incomplete Markets and Schumpeterian Growth

This paper characterizes quantitatively the optimal capital income tax rate in an OLG economy with uninsurable income risk, incomplete markets and endogenous Schumpeterian growth. Contrary to the most recent literature, it is found that it is virtually never optimal to tax capital: under the optimal scheme, in a series of cases, the highest proportional tax rate on capital is found to be less than 0.2%. The reason for this result lies in the reduced GDP (and wage) growth rate stemming from a higher capital tax rate. In General Equilibrium, the interest rate rises, and the increased cost of capital reduces the endogenous rate of innovation, leading to a negative response of the growth rate. Although the equilibrium effect on the growth rate is found to be quantitatively modest (approximately half a percentage point), it still has a first order consequence on welfare. The results show that moving to the optimal income tax schedule entails large welfare gains, approximately 5% in consumption equivalent. The results are robust along a number of dimensions, including the specification of preferences. An alternative formulation of the utility function,taken from a class consistent with a Balanced Growth Path, is calibrated to obtain an empirically plausible value for the Frisch elasticity of 0.5, and confirms all the results, both qualitatively and quantitatively. JEL Classification: D15, E21, H21, O41
Small-angle neutron scattering analysis of bottlebrush backbone and side chain flexibility

Bottlebrush polymers have densely tethered side chains grafted to a linear polymer backbone, resulting in stretching of both the side chains and backbone. Prior studies have reported that the side chains are only weakly stretched while the backbone is highly elongated. Here, scaling laws for the bottlebrush backbone and side chains are determined through small-angle neutron scattering analysis of a systematic series of poly(lactic acid) bottlebrush polymers synthesized via a “grafting-through” ring-opening polymerization. Scattering profiles are modeled with the empirical Guinier–Porod, rigid cylinder, and flexible cylinder models. Side chains are found to be only weakly stretched, with an end-to-end distance proportional to N0.55, while the overall bottlebrush increases in size proportional to N0.77. These results demonstrate that the bottlebrush backbone is not fully extended and that both side chains and backbone have significant conformational flexibility in solution. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2016
Inventory and Characterization of New Populations through Ecological Niche Modelling Improve Threat Assessment

Categorization of species under different threat classes is a pre-requisite for planning, management and monitoring of any species conservation programme. However, data availability, particularly at the population level, has been a major bottleneck in the correct categorization of threatened species. Till date, threat assessments have been mostly based on expert opinion and/or herbarium records. The availability of primary data on distribution of species and their p opulation attributes is limited in India because of inadequate field survey, which has been ascribed to resource constraints and inaccessibility. In this study, we demonstrate that ecological niche modelling (ENM) can be an economical and effective tool to guide surveys overcoming the above two constraints leading to the discovery of new populations of threatened species. Such data lead to improved threat assessment and more accurate categorization. We selected 14 threatened plants comprising 5 trees ( Acer hookeri Miq., Bhesa robusta (Roxb.) Ding Hou, Gynocardia odorata Roxb. , Ilex venulosa Hook. f. and Lagerstroemia minuticarpa Debb. ex P.C. Kanjilal), 8 herbs ( Angelica glauca Edgew., Aquilegia nivalis Falc. ex Jackson, Artemisia amygdalina DC., Begonia satrapis C.B. Clarke, Corydalis cashmeriana Royle, Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soo, Podophyllum hexandrum Royle, and Rheum australe D. Don), and 1 pteridophyte ( Angiopteris evecta (Forst.) Hoffm. ) having distribution range in North East India, Eastern and Western Himalaya, and Jammu and Kashmir. The study was carried out between 2012 and 2016. ENM-based survey led to the discovery and characterization of 348 new populations. The data so obtained helped in assigning conservation status to 10 species, which earlier were never classified due to data deficiency. Using the new population and distribution data of the remaining four species, only one was confirmed regarding its existing status and two species were classified as ‘Critically endangered’ instead of the present classification as ‘Endangered’. The fourth species was classified as ‘Critically endangered’ against the earlier category of ‘Least concerned’.
EU enlargement and monetary regimes from the insurance model perspective

It is widely observed and recognised that economic behaviour in the post-communist countries changed after these countries joined the European Union. The insurance model of currency crises proposed by Dooley, after being modified and interpreted within a broader conceptual meaning, provides good possibilities for analysing the whole process of post-communist transformation and EU accession. This article offers an empirical illustration of the theoretical model using the examples of Bulgaria and Romania. These two Balkan countries, the latest members of the EU (since 2007), have radically different monetary regimes – respectively a currency board and inflation targeting.
EQUIDISTRIBUTION AND COUNTING FOR ORBITS OF GEOMETRICALLY FINITE HYPERBOLIC GROUPS

1.1. Motivation and overview. Let G denote the identity component of the special orthogonal group SO(n, 1), n ≥ 2, and V a finite-dimensional real vector space on which G acts linearly from the right. A discrete subgroup of a locally compact group with finite covolume is called a lattice. For v ∈ V and a subgroup H of G, let Hv = {h ∈ H : vh = v} denote the stabilizer of v in H. A subgroup H of G is called symmetric if there exists a non-trivial involutive automorphism σ of G such that the identity component of H is the same as the identity component of G = {g ∈ G : σ(g) = g}. Theorem 1.1 (Duke-Rudnick-Sarnak [9]). Fix w0 ∈ V such that Gw0 is symmetric. Let Γ be a lattice in G such that Γw0 is a lattice in Gw0 . Then for any norm ‖·‖ on V ,