During femtosecond laser fabrication, photons are mainly absorbed by electrons, and the subsequent energy transfer from electrons to ions is of picosecond order. Hence, lattice motion is negligible ...

Abstract: In this brief, a Noise-Shaping Successive Approximation Register (NS-SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) optimized for low-power Audio Activity Detection (AAD) is presented. Based on a ...

The Catholic share of the population in several Latin American countries has shrunk over the last 10 years, while a growing percentage of Latin American adults are religiously unaffiliated. Fresh data ...

A robust, largely unregulated online trade in isopods could pose a serious threat to some vulnerable species, scientists warn. By Madeline Shaw The project, known as Vineyard Wind, was already 95 ...

Type “greatest leaders of all time” in your favourite search engine and you will probably see a list of the world’s prominent male personalities. How many women do you count? An image search for ...

A pronoun takes the place of a noun close nounA noun is the name of a thing, such as an object, a place, or a person. in a sentence. Pronouns are short words like 'it', 'she', 'he', 'you', 'we', 'they ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Following the onset of the recent global economic crisis, much of the news, especially in advanced economies, was dire. Unemployment was rising, company profits were falling, financial markets were ...

Abstract: The Ising machine is regarded as a promising computing architecture for obtaining approximate solutions to some nondeterministic polynomial time hard (NP-hard) problems. Utilizing a CMOS ...