Exploring the potential role of higher education and ICT in China on green growth.

The upsurge in higher education is considered a key determinant for enhancing green growth. Moreover, ICT development is also the main catalyst of green growth. This research explores the role of higher education and ICT on green growth for China from 1995 to 2020.

Environmental costs of political instability in Pakistan: policy options for clean energy consumption and environment.

Using time series data of Pakistan from 1990 to 2019, this study explores the asymmetric effects of political instability on clean energy consumption and CO emissions. The results from the traditional ARDL model show that political stability lessens environmental damage by reducing CO emissions in the long run. However, when we used the nonlinear ARDL approach, we found that political instability not only reduces the consumption of clean energy but also leads to damage environmental quality in the long run in Pakistan,while political stability not only increases the consumption of clean energy but also helps improve environmental quality in the short run in Pakistan.

Resistive Switching in HfO/LaSrMnO Heterostructures: An Intriguing Case of Low H-Field Susceptibility of an E-Field Controlled Active Interface.

High-performance nonvolatile resistive random access memories (ReRAMs) and their small stimuli control are of immense interest for high-speed computation and big-data processing in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) arena. Here, we examine the resistive switching (RS) behavior in growth-controlled HfO/LaSrMnO (LSMO) heterostructures and their tunability in a low magnetic field. It is demonstrated that oxygen-deficient HfO films show bipolar switching with a high on/off ratio, stable retention, as well as good endurance owing to the orthorhombic-rich phase constitution and charge (de)trapping-enabled Schottky-type conduction.

Pseudoaneurysm of Left proximal Common Carotid Artery following penetrating trauma.

A 33-year male with history of penetrating trauma to left upper chest in 2006, presented through Medical unit to Radiology Department with complain of hemoptysis. Chest X-ray showed a soft tissue lesion in left upper lobe with a linear metallic foreign body. Contrast enhanced CT scan of chest and later CTA was performed which showed a saccular aneurysm arising from mediastinal part of left common aortic artery surrounded by thrombosis with a cylindrical linear metallic foreign body.

A back-to-back MOS-Schottky (Pt-SiO2-Si-C-Pt) nano-heterojunction device as an efficient self-powered photodetector: one step fabrication by pulsed laser deposition.

An efficient self-powered photodetector design involving a C-Si hetero-interface with back-to-back MOS-Schottky (Pt-SiO2-Si-C-Pt) device action is presented. Pulsed laser deposition of a carbon thin film is used which dynamically removes the native surface oxide to form the desired Schottky interface. The combined device action yields two orders of magnitude photoresponse at zero bias.

Citrate milling of oxides: from poly-dispersed micron scale to nearly mono-dispersed nanoscale.

Complex (multivalent/mixed valent) oxides involving two or more cations (e.g. ABO3, AB2O4 and A2B2O7) exhibit the most fascinating range of physical and chemical properties amongst the family of materials systems.