We report on some extensions of the Kandinsky model: A new and highly nontrivial technique to incorporate nonplanar drawings into the Kandinsky model in the same way as in the GIOTTO approach is presented. This means a major step towards the practical usability of our approach. The used technique even gives new insights for the solvability of network ow problems. Another variant of Kandinsky en...

A intensity-modulated optical fiber relative humidity (RH) sensor based on the side coupling induction technology (SCIT) is presented and experimentally demonstrated. The agarose gel and the twisted macro-bend coupling structure are first combined for RH sensing applications. The refractive index (RI) of the agarose gel increases with the increase of the RH and is in linear proportion from 20 t...

We study bend loss in chalcogenide negative curvature fibers with different polarizations, different tube wall thicknesses, and different bend directions relative to the mode polarization. The coupling between the core mode and tube modes induces bend loss peaks in the two non-degenerate modes at the same bend radius. There is as much as a factor of 28 difference between the losses of the two p...

A member of the interferon-stimulated gene (ISG) family encodes a 17-kDa ubiquitin homolog called ISG17 that is induced in the bovine uterine endometrium by interferon-tau (IFN-tau) during early pregnancy. The bovine (b) ISG17 cDNA shares 30% identity with a tandem ubiquitin repeat and 70% identity with human (h) ISG15. The present experiments were designed to sequence the bISG17 gene, compare ...

Recently, a new layout style to avoid edge crossings in straight-line drawings of non-planar graphs received attention. In a Partial Edge Drawing (PED), the middle part of each segment representing an edge is dropped and the two remaining parts, called stubs, are not crossed. To help the user inferring the position of the two end-vertices of each edge, additional properties like symmetry and ho...

The swirling secondary flow in curved pipes is studied three-space dimensions using a weakly compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) formulation coupled to new non-reflecting outflow boundary conditions. A large-eddy simulation (LES) model for turbulence benchmarked with existing experimental data. After validation of the present against results 90 grades pipe bend, detailed numeri...

We examined the measurement error in inhaled and exhaled aerosol concentration resulting from the bolus delivery system when small volumes of monodisperse aerosols are inspired to different lung depths. A laser photometer that illuminated approximately 75% of the breathing path cross section recorded low inhaled bolus half-widths (42 ml) and negative deposition values for shallow bolus inhalati...

Resonance Raman spectra were obtained for 2-nitrophenol in cyclohexane solution with excitation wavelengths in resonance with the charge-transfer (CT) proton transfer band absorption. These spectra indicate that the Franck-Condon region photodissociation dynamics have multidimensional character with motion along more than 15 normal modes: the nominal CCH bend+CC stretch nu(12) (1326 cm(-1)), th...