The detectors within an infrared focal plane array (FPA) characteristically have responses that vary from detector to detector. It is desirable to remove this “nonuniformity” for improved image quality. Factory calibration is not sufficient since nonuniformity tends to drift over time. Field calibration can be performed using uniform temperature sources but requires briefly obscuring the field-...

T h e only m e t h o d so far k n o w n for isolat ing par t s of the nuc lea r enve lope is the t echn ique of Cal lan a n d T o m l i n (3), i.e. dissect ing the envelopes of manual lyi so la ted ind iv idua l nuclei . This procedu re has been used successfully by m a n y workers (6, 8, 13, 14, s u m m a r y in reference 7). I ts g rea t d i sadvan tage is tha t it m u s t be res t r ic ted n...

Substance use disorders (SUD) have been shown to be linked to various neuronal and behavioral impairments. In this study, we investigate whether there is a connection between the integrity of white matter (WM) and attachment styles as well as different affective states including spirituality in a group of patients diagnosed for poly-drug use disorder (PUD) in comparison to non-clinical controls...

[1] Using data from the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, we have followed the intensity variations of H, He and C + O nuclei between 1998 and 2008 and determined the spectra for H and He at the time of minimum modulation in 1998, when the solar magnetic polarity was positive and again in 2008 when the solar magnetic polarity was negative. At these times these data are representative of conditions ne...

In the paper it is shown that in a Banach space with a basis there is a norm with property (β) of S. Rolewicz if and only if there is a norm which is simultaneously nearly uniformly convex and nearly uniformly smooth. The Kuratowski measure of noncompactness of a set A in a Banach space is the infimum α(A) of those ǫ > 0 for which there is a covering of A by a finite number of sets Ai with diam...

Many countries using sensitive screening methods for detection of carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have a sustained low incidence of MRSA infections. For diagnostic laboratories with high sample volumes, MRSA screening requires stability, low maintenance and high performance at a low cost. Herein we designed oligonucleotides for a new nuc targeted hydrolysis probe ...

We present energy spectra of eleven cosmic ray elements with energies from rv5 to rv500 MeV/nuc using data obtained from the Voyager spacecraft in the outer heliosphere from early 1993 to the end of 1998. The lowenergy intensity increases observed in all these spectra are consistent with the shapes expected to be exhibited by primarily singly-charged anomalous cosmic rays (ACRs). One of these e...

O1s core-electron binding energies (CEBE) of the atomic oxygens on different Ag surfaces were investigated by the symmetry adapted cluster-configuration interaction (SAC-CI) method combined with the dipped adcluster model, in which the electron exchange between bulk metal and adsorbate is taken into account properly. Electrophilic and nucleophilic oxygens (O(elec) and O(nuc)) that might be impo...

Time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (TRLFS) and imaging spectromicroscopy (TRLFISM) were used to examine the chemical speciation of uranyl in contaminated subsurface sediments from the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) Hanford Site, Washington. Spectroscopic measurements for contaminant U(VI) were compared to those from a natural, uranyl-bearing calcite (NUC) that had been ...