Hybrid organic-inorganic monomode waveguides of conjugated polymers on porous silicon (PS) substrates have been fabricated. Different low refractive index PS substrates, varying from 1.46 down to 1.18 have been studied. Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) has been observed for all the samples and the ASE threshold has been monitored as a function of the PS refractive index. A decrease in the A...

This paper presents ASE (Aligning Smart Entities) tool for the automated alignment of OWL domain ontology definitions in the context of Internet of Things (IoT). The effort is based on experience gained by the development of AUTOMSv2 for OAEI 2012. The development process of this tool has been driven by our motivation to use the ontology alignment functionality as part of the Smart Proxy approa...

We present a set of Python routines to perform basic tests of classical atomistic potentials and their example applications. These routines are implemented using universal Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) and LAMMPS molecular dynamics code. ASE is utilized to create atomic configurations, to write input scripts for LAMMPS, and to read results from output files. Evaluated properties are forma...

We present semiparametric spectral modeling of the complete larval Drosophila mushroom body connectome. Motivated by a thorough exploratory data analysis of the network via Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) in the adjacency spectral embedding (ASE) representation space, we introduce the latent structure model (LSM) for network modeling and inference. LSM is a generalization of the stochastic bloc...

We investigate effects of amplified spontaneous emission noise (ASE), noise figure (NF) and dispersion chromatic on the performance of DWDM networks using distributed optical fiber Raman amplifiers (DRAs) in two different pump configurations, i.e., forward and backward pumping. We found that the pumping configurations, ASE noise, and dispersion play an important role in network performance impr...

INTRODUCTION Typical spike-and-wave activity (TSWA) in the electroencephalogram (EEG) indicates idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). IGE-related nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is typically an absence status epilepticus (ASE). ASE and TSWA respond dramatically to benzodiazepines. Patients with no history of seizure/epilepsy may develop ASE "de novo" in the context of an acute brain di...

PURPOSE Arthritis self-efficacy (ASE) characterizes individuals' confidence in managing their arthritis. This study's purpose was to examine the effects of a telephone intervention on ASE, depression, pain, and fatigue in older adults with arthritis. METHODS Eighty-five elders with arthritis were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. Participants in both groups: (a) complete...

The bulbs of Allium sativum (ASE) and leaves of Lagerstroemia speciosa (LSE) are traditionally used to treat a variety of health disorders in the southern part of India. DIA-2 is a herbal formulation developed to contain fixed ratio (1:1 w/w) of ASE and LSE. In the present study, the phytochemical analysis of ASE and LSE was carried out following standard protocols. Also, a simple, rapid and re...

We investigate the role of ampli ed spontaneous emission (ASE) produced by an optical booster ampli er at the transmitter of free-space optical communication links. In a communication terminal with a single telescope for both transmission and reception, this ASE power has to be taken into account in connection with transmit-to-receive channel isolation, especially since it partly occupies the s...

The majority of type III group B streptococcus (GBS) human neonatal infections are caused by a genetically related subgroup called III-3. We have proposed that a bacterial enzyme, C5a-ase, contributes to the pathogenesis of neonatal infections with GBS by rapidly inactivating C5a, a potent pro-inflammatory molecule, but many III-3 strains do not express C5a-ase. The amount of C5a produced in se...