Optical System Design with Courageous Spirit

Optical design of organic solar cell with hybrid plasmonic system.

We propose a novel optical design of organic solar cell with a hybrid plasmonic system, which comprises a plasmonic cavity coupled with a dielectric core-metal shell nanosphere. From a rigorous solution of Maxwell's equations, called volume integral equation method, optical absorption of the active polymer material has a four-fold increase. The significant enhancement mainly attributes to the c...

Features of the Expert-System-Shell SPIRIT

Anomalous Orbic ‘‘Spirit’’ Photographs? A Conventional Optical Explanation

With the development of reliable and inexpensive digital cameras, numerous individuals have reported capturing anomalous round-shaped (orbic) objects in photographs. These seemingly anomalous orbic images (AOIs) have sometimes been interpreted as reflecting ‘‘spirits,’’ ‘‘angels,’’ ‘‘light beings,’’ ‘‘aliens,’’ and/or ‘‘UFOs.’’ We decided to determine whether we could (1) replicate capturing AO...

Women, we need to be courageous.

12 Women, we need to be courageous Illuminée munyabugingo My name is Illuminée Munyabugingo. The 1994 genocide against Tutsis happened when I was thirty-four years old. I was born in Kigali in a camp for internally displaced persons. My family had moved there from Eastern Province because of the 1959 massacres of Tutsis. We were a family with sixteen children. During the 1959 massacres, the hou...

Hypocritical Flip-Flop, or Courageous Evolution?

How do audiences react to leaders who change their opinion after taking moral stances? We propose that people believe moral stances are stronger commitments, compared with pragmatic stances; we therefore explore whether and when audiences believe those commitments can be broken. We find that audiences believe moral commitments should not be broken, and thus that they deride as hypocritical lead...