Circuits must be specifically designed and qualified for low temperature operation.
Common low-cost ceramic capacitor dielectrics (Z5U) are rated only to +15C and are useless by 0C. Y5P/Y5V are rated to -30C. X5R / X7R will get you to -55C.
Aluminum electrolytics are useless at low temperature; tantalum is required.
Either I don't understand the consequences of a neutrino:nucleon reaction cross-section on the order of 10^-43 m^2, or a technology writer is bafflegabbing.
Nope. Claim 1 is the sole independent claim, and begins with "A device-implemented method..."; no alternative embodiments are claimed there. All of the other claims are dependent upon claim 1. Infringement can only be asserted against what is delineated in the claims.
Humans are not (yet) devices, so direct human acts cannot infringe.
It would be surprising if any engineering or physics student at UCLA did not know about the reactor in Boelter Hall. I saw it on a tour once, though I cannot recall if this was a public tour, or one for students in a specific introductory course for physics majors.
The amount and degree of enrichment (reportedly 93%) of the uranium fuel might not have been widely known.
Feit rhymes with shite. I've had maybe 1 out of 7 out-of-the-box failures on (PG&E subsidized, so cheap) Feit CFLs. I had the electronic ballast on one of their candelabra base bulbs fail badly (exploded with foul smoke and enough force to crack the ballast enclosure and partially separate it from the tube) after the bulb started flickering.
I generally prefer the Asian editions of textbooks. Beyond the lower price, they tend to be printed on old-style ordinary paper rather than clay-coat as is now used in nearly all U.S. editions. The glossy surface of clay-coat feels disgusting and produces glare, which makes it difficult to read. This paper also is so heavy that the books are difficult to handle and use. The bindings are shoddy; my hardcover U.S. copy of Griffiths' Introduction to Quantum Mechanics had its covers falling off after only one semester of use, whereas my softcover India copy of Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics is still in fine shape.
To avoid wrecking my wrists, and to reduce my knapsack load, I often ended up ripping my U.S. textbooks down into sections of one to a few chapters, then having these rebound with hot melt glue bindings and manila covers at a local copy store.
What I recall from reading the graphene/water selectively permeable barrier paper (Nair et al. in Geim's research group, Science 335, 442-444 (2012)), makes the situations not comparable. The graphene in the selectively permeable barrier was not a monolayer as in this topic's paper, but rather a sort of graphene baklava: stacked monolayers with more-or-less random holes/gaps in each layer (and the graphene was oxidized). The authors offered a nanocapillary model where "a network of graphene nanocapillaries formed within GO laminates, which are filled with monolayer water under ambient conditions." Water and graphene each are extraordinary materials; put them together and things get even more extraordinary.
Look at the carbon fixing (CO2-transforming) enzyme in nature: Rubisco. The elegance of the photon capturing and energy transport systems around it, and the machinery required to assemble the enzyme itself, will make you weep in amazement that it ever could have happened. The slow throughput of the system (molecules per second) and its bungling propensity to run backwards and re-oxidize (respiration), will make you weep in frustration.
Some plants (the C4 plants, such as maize/corn, sugar cane, and sorghum, typically evolved in hotter climates) cheat this up some by structural improvements that increase the concentration of CO2 through an intermediate structure.
We very likely have a lot of hard but interesting work to do, before we can design something comparable or better for human purposes.
Visible light not only is not currently energetic enough, it is never energetic enough with ZnO, unless perhaps you do something much more complicated: heterostructures and engineered bandgaps. But that's not cheap and simply grown ZnO anymore.
Going to the Moon does not help much. Look at the Wikipedia article on Sunlight, Solar Radiation Spectrum graph. The Sun approximates a black body radiator at 5525K. Look at the solid line (theoretical black body at 5525K) at 367 nm and shorter wavelengths: comparatively little UV. Going to the Moon helps only the gap (absorption and scattering) between the yellow curve (sunlight at the top of Earth's atmosphere) and the red curve (sunlight at ground level).
The experiment is interesting as regards the benefits of the nanostructure of the materials, but the 3.37 eV band gap of ZnO must be kicked across by a photon of no less energy (no longer wavelength) than 367 nm: ultraviolet.
The good news is that you have plenty of energy relative to 1.25eV minimum needed to split water. The bad news is that you need high energy photons that are relatively scarce in sunlight by the time it reaches the earth's surface.
"The population is mostly of low socio-economic status, having less than high school education and less than one-third are insured under the Geisinger Health Plan."
"We were unable to control for depression, anxiety and other emotional factors because of Pennsylvania laws protecting the confidentiality of these diagnoses."
The results of this study ought to be interpreted in light both of the socio-economics, demographics, and regional characteristics of the population studied, and of the potentially crucial categories of comorbidity that were excluded.
My own use of zolpidem (Ambien) was during a time of an extraordinary convergence of situational stress factors. Once the stress conditions resolved, I was able to discontinue the drug.
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek that depicted some situation where wars were conducted by computer gaming, eventually directing real [people/beings] to be killed according to the outcomes of the computer battles?
Perhaps it is a signal to shareholders that IBM, unlike most other corporations, maintain a time horizon that extends beyond three or twelve months, and demonstrate this by investing in basic research. That bears a continuing expense, but it also can sustain the company farther into the future. The capacity to contribute to current advancement in foundational science, can also bring the capacity to inform and advise efforts in domains closer to application.
Despite difficulty in following the overall argument given, tunneling leakage already became a significant factor several process generations ago. That was the reason for moving to high-k dielectrics: increasing the dielectric constant of the gate insulator material allows the insulator to be thicker (thus lower incidence of tunneling across the gate) for a given capacitance.
Excellent. I bought a natural latex yoga mat, so I surely must now be marked as a gay hippie with a latex fetish.
Application: the most conveniently available source of friction pad material for improvised tools to help disassemble stuck windsurfing masts. Figure that one out from data mining.
Yes, in the 70s we had great difficulty constructing popup gray-over ad annoyances on character displays that had only dim and blink enhancement bits available.
Given that a system build required an overnight batch run, and arrived on a large roll of paper tape...
Slow-to-download PDF documents can still hang all tabs and windows. This is likely to be bad behavior in Adobe's plug-in, but one is left wondering whether Acrobat reader's terrible behavior could be encapsulated so as not to freeze everything.
Startup time seems excruciating on older machines with
New remember-password query pops up on the left side (not good when mouse attention is on the right side) uses a pull-down that is too hair-trigger toward remembering the password when you don't want to.
The about:memory screen is a fun toy. As someone who began writing code on 1970s machines, I am left wondering how anything could be using such massive amounts of memory. At least it's interesting to see the memory use categorized, even if I do not understand the categories.
Observing the resource usage of one iTunes client under Windows, and assuming that client and server iTunes are written with similar efficiency, my calculations show that the NC datacenter building should be sufficient to support nearly 1,000 concurrent iTunes downloads.
I use a Shuffle to play nasty industrial "music" to get me through gym sessions. The gen. 2 Shuffle worked very nicely, but eventually succumbed to some combination of sweat and battery cycle limit. The gen. 3 that I got to replace it has been a bitter disappointment.
I can only hope that the newly announced Shuffle has cured itself of the extreme idiocy of having the controls embedded in the earphone cord. "Ear buds" do not work for me - they fail to block external noise, and they fall out of my presumably alien mutant (not-Apple-spec.) ears. I ended up having to buy a $20 Belch-kin accessory to be able to use a decent Sennheiser sports headset.
Navigation with the single-button control has been an unspeakable horror. Having to click 3 times to move backward, would be a challenge for me if I were doing nothing else, and is made worse while I am grinding away on a stationary bike. I end up getting voice titles, fast forwards, replays, and anything other than the steady backward progression through recently played songs, that I wanted.
I want something small and minimal: no glowing screens. I want something that was designed to be USED.
Actually, one of the challenges that the cable industry faces, is the massive installed base of settop boxes that are only capable of decoding MPEG2.
Though the situation may have changed for new designs in the four years since I have been out of that part of the industry, everything out there had MPEG2 decode in dedicated hardware functional blocks in the system-on-chip.
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Circuits must be specifically designed and qualified for low temperature operation. Common low-cost ceramic capacitor dielectrics (Z5U) are rated only to +15C and are useless by 0C. Y5P/Y5V are rated to -30C. X5R / X7R will get you to -55C. Aluminum electrolytics are useless at low temperature; tantalum is required.
Either I don't understand the consequences of a neutrino:nucleon reaction cross-section on the order of 10^-43 m^2, or a technology writer is bafflegabbing.
Nope. Claim 1 is the sole independent claim, and begins with "A device-implemented method..."; no alternative embodiments are claimed there. All of the other claims are dependent upon claim 1. Infringement can only be asserted against what is delineated in the claims.
Humans are not (yet) devices, so direct human acts cannot infringe.
With 460GHz capability, the treble should be truly excellent.
It would be surprising if any engineering or physics student at UCLA did not know about the reactor in Boelter Hall. I saw it on a tour once, though I cannot recall if this was a public tour, or one for students in a specific introductory course for physics majors.
The amount and degree of enrichment (reportedly 93%) of the uranium fuel might not have been widely known.
Feit rhymes with shite. I've had maybe 1 out of 7 out-of-the-box failures on (PG&E subsidized, so cheap) Feit CFLs. I had the electronic ballast on one of their candelabra base bulbs fail badly (exploded with foul smoke and enough force to crack the ballast enclosure and partially separate it from the tube) after the bulb started flickering.
I generally prefer the Asian editions of textbooks. Beyond the lower price, they tend to be printed on old-style ordinary paper rather than clay-coat as is now used in nearly all U.S. editions. The glossy surface of clay-coat feels disgusting and produces glare, which makes it difficult to read. This paper also is so heavy that the books are difficult to handle and use. The bindings are shoddy; my hardcover U.S. copy of Griffiths' Introduction to Quantum Mechanics had its covers falling off after only one semester of use, whereas my softcover India copy of Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics is still in fine shape.
To avoid wrecking my wrists, and to reduce my knapsack load, I often ended up ripping my U.S. textbooks down into sections of one to a few chapters, then having these rebound with hot melt glue bindings and manila covers at a local copy store.
You have confused a monolayer with your nanotube.
What I recall from reading the graphene/water selectively permeable barrier paper (Nair et al. in Geim's research group, Science 335, 442-444 (2012)), makes the situations not comparable. The graphene in the selectively permeable barrier was not a monolayer as in this topic's paper, but rather a sort of graphene baklava: stacked monolayers with more-or-less random holes/gaps in each layer (and the graphene was oxidized). The authors offered a nanocapillary model where "a network of graphene nanocapillaries formed within GO laminates, which are filled with monolayer water under ambient conditions." Water and graphene each are extraordinary materials; put them together and things get even more extraordinary.
Look at the carbon fixing (CO2-transforming) enzyme in nature: Rubisco. The elegance of the photon capturing and energy transport systems around it, and the machinery required to assemble the enzyme itself, will make you weep in amazement that it ever could have happened. The slow throughput of the system (molecules per second) and its bungling propensity to run backwards and re-oxidize (respiration), will make you weep in frustration.
Some plants (the C4 plants, such as maize/corn, sugar cane, and sorghum, typically evolved in hotter climates) cheat this up some by structural improvements that increase the concentration of CO2 through an intermediate structure.
We very likely have a lot of hard but interesting work to do, before we can design something comparable or better for human purposes.
Visible light not only is not currently energetic enough, it is never energetic enough with ZnO, unless perhaps you do something much more complicated: heterostructures and engineered bandgaps. But that's not cheap and simply grown ZnO anymore.
Going to the Moon does not help much. Look at the Wikipedia article on Sunlight, Solar Radiation Spectrum graph. The Sun approximates a black body radiator at 5525K. Look at the solid line (theoretical black body at 5525K) at 367 nm and shorter wavelengths: comparatively little UV. Going to the Moon helps only the gap (absorption and scattering) between the yellow curve (sunlight at the top of Earth's atmosphere) and the red curve (sunlight at ground level).
The experiment is interesting as regards the benefits of the nanostructure of the materials, but the 3.37 eV band gap of ZnO must be kicked across by a photon of no less energy (no longer wavelength) than 367 nm: ultraviolet.
The good news is that you have plenty of energy relative to 1.25eV minimum needed to split water. The bad news is that you need high energy photons that are relatively scarce in sunlight by the time it reaches the earth's surface.
Imagine the possiblities for 8-legged pizzicato.
Come to think of it, I am not especially fond of pizzicato.
"The population is mostly of low socio-economic status, having less than high school education and less than one-third are insured under the Geisinger Health Plan."
"We were unable to control for depression, anxiety and other emotional factors because of Pennsylvania laws protecting the confidentiality of these diagnoses."
The results of this study ought to be interpreted in light both of the socio-economics, demographics, and regional characteristics of the population studied, and of the potentially crucial categories of comorbidity that were excluded.
My own use of zolpidem (Ambien) was during a time of an extraordinary convergence of situational stress factors. Once the stress conditions resolved, I was able to discontinue the drug.
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek that depicted some situation where wars were conducted by computer gaming, eventually directing real [people/beings] to be killed according to the outcomes of the computer battles?
Perhaps it is a signal to shareholders that IBM, unlike most other corporations, maintain a time horizon that extends beyond three or twelve months, and demonstrate this by investing in basic research. That bears a continuing expense, but it also can sustain the company farther into the future. The capacity to contribute to current advancement in foundational science, can also bring the capacity to inform and advise efforts in domains closer to application.
Despite difficulty in following the overall argument given, tunneling leakage already became a significant factor several process generations ago. That was the reason for moving to high-k dielectrics: increasing the dielectric constant of the gate insulator material allows the insulator to be thicker (thus lower incidence of tunneling across the gate) for a given capacitance.
Excellent. I bought a natural latex yoga mat, so I surely must now be marked as a gay hippie with a latex fetish.
Application: the most conveniently available source of friction pad material for improvised tools to help disassemble stuck windsurfing masts. Figure that one out from data mining.
Yes, in the 70s we had great difficulty constructing popup gray-over ad annoyances on character displays that had only dim and blink enhancement bits available.
Given that a system build required an overnight batch run, and arrived on a large roll of paper tape...
Slow-to-download PDF documents can still hang all tabs and windows. This is likely to be bad behavior in Adobe's plug-in, but one is left wondering whether Acrobat reader's terrible behavior could be encapsulated so as not to freeze everything.
Startup time seems excruciating on older machines with New remember-password query pops up on the left side (not good when mouse attention is on the right side) uses a pull-down that is too hair-trigger toward remembering the password when you don't want to.
The about:memory screen is a fun toy. As someone who began writing code on 1970s machines, I am left wondering how anything could be using such massive amounts of memory. At least it's interesting to see the memory use categorized, even if I do not understand the categories.
Perhaps we need a constitutional amendment to require that the authorship of each section of a bill, be clearly and accurately identified.
The water in a typical pool is not fresh. It is an ion soup, recommended pH 7.4-7.6.
Observing the resource usage of one iTunes client under Windows, and assuming that client and server iTunes are written with similar efficiency, my calculations show that the NC datacenter building should be sufficient to support nearly 1,000 concurrent iTunes downloads.
I use a Shuffle to play nasty industrial "music" to get me through gym sessions. The gen. 2 Shuffle worked very nicely, but eventually succumbed to some combination of sweat and battery cycle limit. The gen. 3 that I got to replace it has been a bitter disappointment.
I can only hope that the newly announced Shuffle has cured itself of the extreme idiocy of having the controls embedded in the earphone cord. "Ear buds" do not work for me - they fail to block external noise, and they fall out of my presumably alien mutant (not-Apple-spec.) ears. I ended up having to buy a $20 Belch-kin accessory to be able to use a decent Sennheiser sports headset.
Navigation with the single-button control has been an unspeakable horror. Having to click 3 times to move backward, would be a challenge for me if I were doing nothing else, and is made worse while I am grinding away on a stationary bike. I end up getting voice titles, fast forwards, replays, and anything other than the steady backward progression through recently played songs, that I wanted.
I want something small and minimal: no glowing screens. I want something that was designed to be USED.
Actually, one of the challenges that the cable industry faces, is the massive installed base of settop boxes that are only capable of decoding MPEG2.
Though the situation may have changed for new designs in the four years since I have been out of that part of the industry, everything out there had MPEG2 decode in dedicated hardware functional blocks in the system-on-chip.