Effects Of Astronaut Fatigue On Performance To Be
Studied

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From Aero-News Network: Alion Wins $1.2M NASA Contract To Develop Scenario-Based Models Of Astronaut Performance And Conduct Human Studies During human space missions, the crew and ground personnel must function under high stress and workload, often with disrupted sleep patterns. Astrona

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Are You Smarter About Cars than the Wall Street
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In 2004, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones put together a now-forgotten index to cars you should buy as investments. I'm skeptical of such predictions, despite making them myself from time to time: Dave's Law states that the more a collector car is worth, the more it tends to appreciate.

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Japan prepares to switch nuclear reactors back on

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Despite the partial meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan looks set to restart its power stations

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Scientists discover mechanism that promotes lung
cancer

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A multi-institutional research study has uncovered a new mechanism that may lead to unique treatments for lung cancer, one of the leading causes of death worldwide.

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The ethics of humor

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Plato and a platypus walked into a bar. The bartender gave the philosopher a quizzical look, and Plato said, ?What can I say?

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Model Something! 6/18/12 - Robots!

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This Week's Difficulty: VariedThis weeks modeling challenge is a little bit more open ended, allowing more various skill sets to try and take a whack at it. The objective is to create a robot or android. It can be fictional like the droids from Star Wars, something from real life, or a unique crea

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How aging normal cells fuel tumor growth and
metastasis

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It has long been known that cancer is a disease of aging, but a molecular link between the two has remained elusive.

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Living microprocessor tunes in to feedback

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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) ? tiny strands of non-protein-coding RNAs ? start off as long strands of precursor miRNAs. These long strands get chopped up by a special kind of machinery, the "Microprocessor" complex, to transform them into their shorter functional form.

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Special IETE issue on Compact Modeling

Special IETE issue (May-June 2012 Volume 58; Issue 3 Page Nos. 179-242) on Compact Modeling: "Compact Modeling as a Bridge between Scaled Semiconductor Technologies and Advanced Designs of the Integrated Circuits" is available on-line with following articles:

A Hybrid Verilog-A and Equation-defined Subcircuit Approach to MOS Switched Current Analog Cell Simulation p. 181
Mike E Brinson, Stefan Jahn, H Nabijou
Aging Model for a 40 V Nch MOS, Based on an Innovative Approach p. 191
Filippo Alagi, Roberto Stella, Emanuele Viganó
Complex 2D Electric Field Solution in Undoped Double-gate MOSFETs p. 197
Mike Schwarz, Thomas Holtij, Alexander Kloes, Benjamín Iñíguez
2D Analytical Calculation of the Parasitic Source/Drain Resistances in DG-MOSFETs Using the Conformal Mapping Technique p. 205
Thomas Holtij, Mike Schwarz, Alexander Kloes, Benjamín Iñíguez
RF Compact Modeling of High-voltage MOSFETs p. 214
Antonios Bazigos, François Krummenacher, Jean-Michel Sallese, Matthias Bucher, Ehrenfried Seebacher, Werner Posch, Kund Molnár, Mingchun Tang
HSPICE Model of the Physical Resistor p. 222
Petr Beták, Petr Zavrel
Enhanced Non-quasi-static Lauritzen Diode Model p. 226
Lenka Sochová, Petr Beták, Ján Plojhár
Self-heating Parameter Extraction of Power Metal-oxide-silicon Field Effect Transistor Based on Transient Drain Current Measurement p. 230
Risho Koh, Takahiro Iizuka
Extraction of Scalable Electrical Model for HV (600/800 V) MOS Transistors p. 237
Lorenzo Labate, Simona Angela Cozzi, Roberto Stella