The 24-hour physical activities in adults with cerebral palsy and their adherence to the 24-hour movement guideline.

Objective: To describe 24-hour physical activities (sleep and physical activity) in adults with cerebral palsy (CP), explore potential influencing factors and compare 24-hour physical activities with controls.

Design: Cross-sectional, observational internet study involving adults with CP and a convenience sample of adults without CP.

Setting: Individuals residing in the Netherlands Participants: 110 adults with CP (median age 42, range 28-77 years; 64 (58%) ambulant; 40% male) and 89 adult controls (median age 43, range 18-78 years; 29% male).

Atomic Layer Deposition of Wet-Etch Resistant Silicon Nitride Using Di(sec-butylamino)silane and N Plasma on Planar and 3D Substrate Topographies.

The advent of three-dimensional (3D) finFET transistors and emergence of novel memory technologies place stringent requirements on the processing of silicon nitride (SiN) films used for a variety of applications in device manufacturing. In many cases, a low temperature (<400 °C) deposition process is desired that yields high quality SiN films that are etch resistant and also conformal when grown on 3D substrate topographies. In this work, we developed a novel plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) process for SiN using a mono-aminosilane precursor, di(sec-butylamino)silane (DSBAS, SiHN(Bu)), and N plasma.

Role of Surface Termination in Atomic Layer Deposition of Silicon Nitride.

There is an urgent need to deposit uniform, high-quality, conformal SiN(x) thin films at a low-temperature. Conforming to these constraints, we recently developed a plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (ALD) process with bis(tertiary-butyl-amino)silane (BTBAS) as the silicon precursor. However, deposition of high quality SiNx thin films at reasonable growth rates occurs only when N2 plasma is used as the coreactant; strongly reduced growth rates are observed when other coreactants like NH3 plasma, or N2-H2 plasma are used.

[Reticulocytes in the diagnosis of anaemia].

Reticulocytes are immature erythrocytes; the number of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood reflects erythropoietic activity. Two cases are described to illustrate the use of the reticulocyte count in the diagnostic workup of anaemia. The first patient was a 62-year-old woman presenting with fatigue.