Study of Gallium-Doped Zinc Oxide Thin Films Processed by Atomic Layer Deposition and RF Magnetron Sputtering for Transparent Antenna Applications.

Gallium-doped zinc oxide (GZO) films were fabricated using RF magnetron sputtering and atomic layer deposition (ALD). The latter ones demonstrate higher electrical conductivities (up to 2700 S cm) and enhanced charge mobilities (18 cm V s). The morphological analysis reveals differences mostly due to the very different nature of the deposition processes.

Feeding, Muscle and Packaging Effects on Meat Quality and Consumer Acceptability of Avileña-Negra Ibérica Beef.

In order to achieve an attractive and differentiated product for the consumer and to optimize and to maximize profitability for the farmers within the EU Protected Geographical Indication "Carne de Ávila", 24 yearling males of Avileña-Negra Ibérica breed were used to evaluate the effect of 2 feeding systems, concentrate (CON) and maize silage (SIL), and 2 packaging systems, vacuum (VAC) and modified atmosphere (MAP), on fatty acid composition, proximate analysis, water holding capacity and consumer acceptability of meat in 2 muscles: (LT) and (ST). Animals fed with concentrate showed higher carcass weight. However, feeding did not affect the proximate analysis of the meat.

Epidemiological study of sausage in Algeria: Prevalence, quality assessment, and antibiotic resistance of isolates and the risk factors associated with consumer habits affecting foodborne poisoning.

Aim: The first aim was to assess the quality and determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of contamination of raw sausage sold in ten municipalities in the Northeast of Algeria. Second, a consumer sausage purchasing survey was designed to investigate potential risk factors that have a significant association with the occurrence of foodborne poisoning among sausage consumers' behavior and its relationship with independent variables.

Materials And Methods: A total of 230 butcheries from ten departments (Daira) of Algiers with more than 40 municipalities were included randomly in these studies to collect raw sausage samples and to distribute 700 structured questionnaires to meat consumers.

Anesthesia management in a child with PHACE syndrome and agenesis of bilateral internal carotid arteries.

This is the first case report of successful anesthesia management in a high-risk neurological procedure in a patient with PHACE syndrome. PHACE syndrome is rare but an important clinical entity. Anesthesiologists should be aware of the neurological, otolaryngogical, and vascular risk associated with this syndrome.

A low-order unstructured-mesh approach for computational electromagnetics in the time domain.

Maxwell's curl equations in the time domain are solved using an explicit linear finite-element approach implemented on unstructured tetrahedral meshes. For the simulation of scattering problems, a perfectly matched layer is added at the artificial far-field boundary, created by the truncation of the physical domain prior to the numerical solution. The complete solution procedure is parallelized.