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Native Point Defects in yttria as a High-Dielectric-Constant Gate Oxide Material: A First-Principles Study
(2006-01)
Yttria (Y₂O₃) has become a
promising gate oxide material to replace silicon dioxide in metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices. The characterization of native point defect in Y₂O₃ is essential to understand the behavior ...
A Computational Study to Understand the Surface Reactivity of Gold Nanoparticles with Amines and DNA
(2006-01)
We conducted a computational adsorption study of methylamine on various surface-models of gold nanoparticle which is facetted by multiple {111} and {100} planes. In addition to these flat surfaces, our models include the ...
Bioinformatics and Handwriting/Speech Reconition: Uncoventional Applications of Similarity Search Tools
(2006-01)
This work introduces two unconventional applications for sequence alignment algorithms outside the domain of bioinformatics: handwriting recognition and speech recognition. In each application we treated data samples, such ...
Keyword Join: Realizing Keyword Search for Information Integration
(2006-01)
Information integration has been widely addressed over the last several decades. However, it is far from solved due to the complexity of resolving schema and data heterogeneities. In this paper, we propose out attempt to ...
Study of GDNF-Family Receptor Alpha 2 And Inhibitory Activity of GDNF-Family Receptor Alpha 2b (GFRα2b) Isoform
(2006-01)
The glial cell-line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and neurturin (NTN) belong to a structurally related family of neurotrophic factors. NTN exerts its effect through a multi-component receptor system consisting of the ...
Adaptive Distributed Resource Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks
(2006-01)
Wireless sensor networks have emerged as a promising technology for a wide range of important applications. A major research challenge in this field is the distributed resource allocation problem, which concerns how the ...
Performance of a Serial-Batch Processor System with Incompatible Job Families under Simple Control Policies
(2006-01)
A typical example of a batch processor is the diffusion furnace used in wafer fabrication facilities (otherwise known as wafer fabs). In diffusion, silicon wafers are placed inside the furnace, and dopant is flown through ...
Multi-Item Single-Vendor-Single-Buyer Problem with Consideration of Transportation Quantity Discount
(2006-01)
This paper deals with the problem of shipping multiple commodities from a single vendor to a single buyer. Each commodity is assumed to be constantly consumed at the buyer, and periodically replenished from the vendor. ...
Dynamic Surface Tension Behaviour in a Photoresponsive Surfactant System
(2006-01)
We report on the surface properties of a photoresponsive surfactant that incorporates the light-sensitive azobenzene group into its tail. Cis-trans photo-isomerization of this group alters the ability of the surfactant to ...
A Precorrected-FFT Method for Coupled Electrostatic-Stokes Flow Problem
(2006-01)
We present the application of the boundary integral equation method for solving the motion of biological cell or particle under Stokes flow in the presence of electrostatic field. The huge dense matrix-vector product from ...