Titanium nitride and hafnium oxide stack have been widely used in various resistive memory elements since the materials are complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor compatible. The understanding of the interface properties between the electrode and the oxide is important in designing the memory behavior. To bridge this understanding, HfOx grown using plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD)

Divorce increased dramatically during the twentieth century across the western world. There is surprisingly little research on the determinants of divorce during this transition. We investigate micro-level sociodemographic determinants of divorce in Sweden 1922–1967 using longitudinal data at individual and household level from southern Sweden, focusing on the associations between divorce and wome

The objective of the paper is to explore whether particular problematisations of cars and car use lead to sets of solutions that may not deal with all problems associated with car use, and whether this leads to any internal conflicts within the chosen policies. The paper is based on a review of local transport policy documents from 13 cities in four countries using the lens of policy problematisat

Följ med på en resa från Tolkien, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, Tarzan och Tintin, till dystopiska dialekter hos Burgess och Orwell. Från nunnan Hildegard av Bingen på 1100-talet, över Swift och Rabelais till Pingu och Linus på Linjen.Det här är en bok om 101 påhittade språk: klingonska, valyriska, syldaviska, na vi, lilliputianska, orkiska, för att nämna några. Språk från länder som inte existerar,

The auto-ignition caused by oblique shocks was investigated experimentally in a supersonic flow regime, with the incoming flow at a Mach number of 2.5. The transient characteristics of the auto-ignition caused by shock evolvements were recorded with a schlieren photography system, and the initial flame kernel generation and subsequent propagation were recorded using a high-speed camera. The fuel m

This article examines how post-conflict states attempt to increase international status by transforming their identities from "peacekept"to "peacekeepers."It focuses on the discursive side of identity construction and increases understanding of how post-conflict troop contributing countries (PCTCC) seek status on the international arena not only by "doing"peacekeeping but also by "narrating"their

This paper studies the persistent effects of short-term peer exposure on long-run performance in a college setting. I exploit the random assignment of undergraduates to peer groups during a mandatory orientation week and track the students’ performance over four years (until graduation). Assignment to orientation week groups with high levels of peer ability is associated with lower performance dur

In the sense of phenomenology, actions are special cases of acts of consciousness. Within semiotics, first Jan Mukařovský and then A. J. Greimas have established, in different terms, a distinction between instrumental actions and actions which carry their meaning in themselves. But this is insufficient to account for the variety of actions which comprises everything from the creation of artefacts,

Opsins allow us to see. They are G-protein-coupled receptors and bind as ligand retinal, which is bound covalently to a lysine in the seventh transmembrane domain. This makes opsins light-sensitive. The lysine is so conserved that it is used to define a sequence as an opsin and thus phylogenetic opsin reconstructions discard any sequence without it. However, recently, opsins were found that functi