The hair thread is a natural fiber formed by keratin, a protein containing high concentration of sulfur coming from the amino acid cystine. The main physical proprieties of the hair depend mostly on its geometry; the physical and mechanical properties of hair involve characteristics to improve: elasticity, smoothness, volume, shine, and softness due to both the significant adherence of the cuti...

NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose fixed-target facility at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The main goals of stronginteractions program are to discover critical point strongly interacting matter as well determine properties produced particles relevant for study onset deconfinement - transition between state hadronic and quark-gluon plasma. An analysis hadron production performed in nucleus-nucleu...

OBJECTIVE To examine the information needs of users of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education (SHINE), an integrated information retrieval (IR) system. METHODS A subset of queries from the SHINE log were categorized into one or more of 33 categories. RESULTS Drugs and infectious disease accounted for 25% of categorizations, and otherwise the distribution of categorizations wa...

Thanks to its optical anisotropy and mechanical properties, luminescent wood is a promising material for indoor lighting applications.

In fact, the commercial potential of the EDFA is such that the telecommunications industry has invested enormous resources in doped-fiber amplifier development over the past ten years. As a result, steady advances have occurred in fiber fabrication and design as well as in the understanding of the spectroscopic properties of rare-earth ions in a glass matrix. This research has also driven devel...