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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhancing Bridges’ Safety Training Using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
The increase in urbanization rates has driven the construction of highly complex infrastructural projects across the globe, including the construction of bridges. However, such growth comes at an extremely hig...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrating Virtual Reality into IOSH Safety Training
The construction industry has high rate of accidents and poor safety records around the world. In addition to the injuries and fatalities, accidents affect both time and cost of the projects, thereby leading t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Incorporation of Learning Theories in VR-Based Safety Training Programs Within the Construction Industry
Virtual reality (VR) technology has gained wide momentum over the past few years. Accordingly, it is rapidly becoming a solid foundation for existing and future educational programs in medical and engineering ...
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Signals in human breath related to Sarcoidosis. — Results of a feasibility study using MCC/IMS
Using a 63Ni—Ion Mobility Spectrometer (IMS) coupled with a Multi-Capillary Column (MCC) the signals obtained are considered to identify characteristic peaks of volatile compounds in exhaled human breath samples ...
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Evaluation for synergistic suppression of T cell responses to minor histocompatibility antigens by chloroquine in combination with tacrolimus and a rapamycin derivative, SDZ-RAD
The 4-aminoquinolines, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, can suppress chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) following blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) in mice and humans, respectively. We hypothesiz...
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Open AccessMost microsatellite unstable sporadic colorectal carcinomas carry MBD4 mutations
The MBD4 gene is involved in the repair of mutation at methyl-CpG dinucleotides. In microsatellite unstable tumours MBD4 can itself be mutated at an exonic polynucleotide tract. By analysing DNA from microdissect...
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The human homolog of the rodent immediate early response genes, PC4 and TIS7, resides in the lung cancer tumor suppressor gene region on chromosome 3p21
Recently, human chromosome band 3p21.3 was shown to undergo overlap** homozygous deletions in several small cell lung cancer lines further defining a putative tumor suppressor gene(s) region. We report the ...
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Influence of Film Thickness and Cap** Layer on the Mechanical Properties of Copper Films
Substrate curvature and X-ray technique were used to study the mechanical properties of Cu films. Stress-temperature curves were measured using both methods. An additional analysis of the X-ray peak width allo...
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Measurement of Thermally-Induced Strains in Polycrystalline Al Thin Films on Si Using Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction
Strains in polycrystalline Al films grown on oxidized Si wafers were measured using convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED). CBED patterns were acquired on a Zeiss EM 912 TEM equipped with an imaging energ...
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Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of AL(1wt%SI) And AL(1wt%SI, 0.5wt%CU) Thin Films the Role of Diffusional Creep in the Tensile Stress Regime
The microstructure and mechanical properties of hot (h) and cold (c) sputtered Al-lwt%Si and Al-lwt%Si-0.5wt%Cu films were studied using transmission electron microscopy and wafer curvature stress measurements.
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Influence of a Cap** Layer on the Mechanical Properties of Copper Films
The substrate curvature technique was employed to study the mechanical properties of 0.6 μm and 1.0 μm Cu films capped with a 50 nm thick Si3N4 layer and to compare them with the mechanical properties of uncapped...
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Article
Mechanical strength and microstructure of oxygen ion-implanted Al films
The influence of finely dispersed, stable particles on the mechanical strength and microstructure of Al films on Si substrates has been studied. Aluminum oxide particles were produced in Al films by oxygen ion...
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Chapter
Photo- and Thermal-Induced Antiferromagnetic Interlayer Coupling in Fe/(Fe-Si) Superlattices
We have grown, via sputtering, Fe-iron silicide superlattices that exhibit novel thermal and photomagnetic effects. For ∼ 15 Å nominal thickness of the silicide layer the superlattices are antiferromagneticall...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Die schwierige therapeutische Region: Lasertherapie einer Papillomatose am Dorsum veli palatini
Berichtet wird über eine 22jährige Patientin mit bekannter Larynxpapillomatose, bei der sich als Zweitmanifestation ein weiterer Papillomherd am Dorsum veli palatini rechts zeigte.
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Dispersion strengthening of Al films by Oxygen ion implantation
Finely dispersed, stable Al-oxide particles were produced in Al films on Si substrates by oxygen ion implantation. A laser reflow technique was employed to vary the grain structure of some of the films. Transm...
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Observation and Modelling of Electromigration-Induced Void Growth in Al-Based Interconnects
Accelerated electromigation tests on unpassivated, pure aluminum interconnects were performed. The failure mechanisms were observed by interrupting the tests and examining the conductor lines using an SEM. Bec...
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Dispersion Strengthening of Al Films by Oxygen Ion Implantation
Finely dispersed, stable Al-oxide particles were produced in Al films on Si substrates by oxygen ion implantation. A laser reflow technique was employed to vary the grain structure of some of the films. Transm...
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Observation and modelling of electromigration-induced void growth in Al-based interconnects
Accelerated electromigation tests on unpassivated, pure aluminum interconnects were performed. The failure mechanisms were observed by interrupting the tests and examining the conductor lines using an SEM. Bec...
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Normal insulin receptor tyrosine kinase activity and glucose transporter (GLUT 4) levels in the skeletal muscle of hyperinsulinaemic hypertensive rats
The spontaneous hypertensive rat is an animal model characterized by a syndrome of hypertension, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia. To elucidate whether in analogy to other insulin resistant animal mode...
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Electromigration Resistance and Mechanical Strength: New Perspectives for Interconnect Materials?
A brief review is given of models which propose a correlation between electromigration resistance and the mechanical strength of thin film interconnects. In an attempt to achieve metallurgical strengthening an...
