Surface phonon polaritonics made simple: great as plasmonics but lower losses

Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.

Can complexity theory throw some different light on the aetiology of complex diseases, 1 currently explored mostly by the probe of molecular genetics? 2 Epidemiology, particularly as developing in the last half a century, has been dealing with disease aetiology—‘a priori’ not known whether simple or complex—with quite simple tools from an epistemological viewpoint. Observational epidemiology st...

Reflecting upon the losses in plasmonics and metamaterials

Concurrent Timestamping Made Simple

Concurrent Time-stamp Systems (ctss) allow processes to temporally order concurrent events in an asynchronous shared memory system, a powerful tool for concurrency control, serving as the basis for solutions to coordination problems such as mutual exclusion, `-exclusion, randomized consensus, and multi-writer multi-reader atomic registers. Solutions to these problems all use an \unbounded numbe...

Dabigatran monitoring made simple?

Haemost 2013; 110: 308-315. Dabigatran, an oral thrombin inhibitor, is licensed as an alternative to warfarin for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation. As the first of the new oral anticoagulants (NOACs) to gain approval for this indication, its use is increasing now that its safety has been confirmed using real-world data (1, 2), and clinical guidelines have given preference ...

Z-Plasty Made Simple

A Z-plasty is a critical and reliable technique that is useful for scar revisions and correction of free margin distortion. A Z-plasty can help lengthen a contracted scar, change the direction of a scar so that it is better aligned with the relaxed skin tension lines, or interrupt and break a scar for better camouflage. This article will review the technique of a basic Z-plasty as well as provi...