Blue Cards, Blue Prospects?

Blue dye, blue skin.

Prospects of emerging polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid-crystal displays

Linghui Rao (SID Student Member) Jin Yan (SID Student Member) Shin-Tson Wu (SID Fellow) Abstract — The prospects of emerging polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid-crystal displays, or more generally, Kerr-effect-induced isotropic-to-anisotropic transition, are analyzed with special emphases on the temperature effects. As the temperature increases, both the Kerr constant, induced birefringence, a...

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Consider two adolescents: Person One and Person Two. Person One has never used substances and exhibits relatively few behavioral (conduct) problems. On the other hand, Person Two uses substances frequently and more commonly exhibits poor conduct. If you were to guess, which of the individuals would you expect to have lower overall judgment and self-regulation? If you answered Person Two, your i...

Blue Swarm Sentinel and Blue Swarm 2

This paper describes the Utah State University (USU) entry in the 2002 robotic Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) competition, hosted by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). More importantly, it also describes the problems the team encountered in preparing for this year’s competition, the lessons learned, and plans for the 2003 USAR competition. Description of the 2002 Entry...

Editorial: Blue on blue doesn't work.

However brilliant a scientist is, however incisive their mind and however elegant their experiments, they must be able to communicate effectively. The ability to write fluently, to inspire an audience in a lecture hall, and to listen carefully and argue cogently face-to-face with a sceptic are all important. Maybe some people believe that it’s only important to impress the journal referees and ...