Several PSG variables that are indicative of sleep fragmentation, sleep disordered breathing, and poor sleep quality correlated with the occurrence of atherosclerosis, but total arousal index was the only independent predictive factor.

To investigate the decrease of thermal conductivity ( ) of nanoscale Si materials, we conducted the piezoelectric photothermal (PPT) method for the highly periodic Si nanopillar arrays embedded in Si0.7Ge0.3. The PPT is an electrode free method that can measure a heat propagation in the parallel to the nanopillars direction. A distinctive dip was observed in the frequency-dependent PPT signal intensity. By focusing the dip frequency, was estimated from the comparison with the model analysis based on the one-dimensional multilayer thermal diffusion equation. The estimated was 0.19 ± 0.07 W m–1 K, in the parallel to the nanopillars direction. Since the considerable decrease of was confirmed from the non-radiative recombination point of view, we found the present non-destructive PPT method is very useful to estimate in the nanostructured devices for the thermoelectric application.

A new method to produce electrically steady ZnO films without any heating process has been developed by using plasma and electron beams to facilitate bonding between the metallic component and the oxygen on coated ZnO films. Both plasma atmosphere and electron beams can function as sources of nonequilibrium bonding energy, forming bridges between the zinc present in the zinc complex and the oxygen in the ZnO particles to construct a zinc-oxide thin film. Our results confirm that it is possible to achieve low conductive characteristics by controlling the acceleration voltage of electrons used to irradiate the ZnO coating. The electrically steady films fabricated have various potential applications, being particularly well-suited to electrical devices on a plastic medium.

Dehydroamination of 9-alkylamino-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene occurred at 190—250 °C under non-basic conditions to give phenanthrene exclusively. The thermal reaction of cis-9-t-butylamino-10-methoxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene gave both 9-methoxyphenanthrene and 9-t-butylaminophenanthrene, while 9-aminophenanthrene was obtained from the thermal reaction of 9-amino-10-methoxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene. The thermal reaction of 9-amino-9,10-dihydroanthracene gave both anthracene and 9-aminoanthracene. Analysis of activation energies and frequency factors showed that the dehydroamination proceeds via an intramolecular proton transfer from C-10 to the amino group and subsequent C–N bond cleavage.

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