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This study focuses on Guizhou Province, a region with difficult geographical conditions and poor economic development, to examine the effect of rainfall shocks on contemporaneous infant health and long‐run socioeconomic outcomes in China. The study results indicate that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality and lower birth weight. In the long run, early life rainfall shortages limit an individual's income and housing conditions. The study findings indicate a significant interaction of rainfall shock with the severity of water scarcity. This result implies that drinking water safety is an essential channel through which early life rainfall shocks influence individual health endowments. However, agriculture production is not a likely channel for rainfall effects despite its association with infant mortality. Accordingly, our empirical results suggest that improving public facility coverage will reduce the vulnerability of infant health to adverse rainfall shocks in Guizhou and other developing areas.

Capacitance-voltage characteristics measured on metal-insulator-semiconductor structures are used to investigate dielectrics charging in the capacitive microelectromechanical switches. An analytical model based on this method has been established. Effects of electrical stress on charge accumulation in silicon-rich nitride were experimentally investigated. The charging parameters of the silicon-rich nitride were extracted by the exponential curve fitting method. The experimental results show that three main physical processes dominate the charging behavior of the silicon-rich nitride. It is expected that the accumulated charges can be eliminated by using an offset square-wave voltage to actuate the switches.

We would like to make the following amendments to the paper: 1. In Eqs. (11a), (11b), (11c), and (11d), the indices of the matrix K N , K GE , K GM , and K LT must all be lower indices. The correct expressions should be ðK N Þ μν in Eq. (11a), ðK GE Þ μν in Eq. (11b), ðK GM Þ μν in Eq. (11c), and ðK LT Þ μν in Eq. (11d). 2. In Eq. (11d), the (3, 3) element is 0, which is missed. 3. In Eq. (22b), the (2, 3) and (3, 2) elements must be replaced by − 1 4 sin i½Ψðcos 2Ψ þ 1Þ þ sin 2Ψ: We are grateful to Neil Ashby for pointing out the typos in Eq. (22b).

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