In this paper, we propose a novel sensor structure based on the rectangular ring resonator with the photonic crystal microcavity (PCM), and optimize the structure using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. This sensor consists of the rectangular resonator with total internal reflection mirror and the PCM, which can be placed at the nearby optical waveguide of the rectangular ring resona...

[1] Douglass and Knox [2005, hereinafter referred to as DK], present an analysis of the observed tropospheric cooling following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption, and claim that these data imply a very low value for the climate sensitivity (equivalent to 0.6 C equilibrium warming for a CO2 doubling). We show here that their analysis is flawed and their results are incorrect. [2] We begin with a ve...

Image quality assessment (IQA) methods play important roles in many applications such as image communication, reception, compression, restoration, and display. No-reference IQA metrics are required to resolve an image when there is a lack of a reference image that is required for fullreference IQA metrics. We propose a no-reference IQA method to evaluate the image quality by using the differenc...

Plasma cell myeloma (PCM) is a devastating disease with a highly heterogeneous outcome, with survival ranging from a few months to longer than 10 years. Treatment of multiple myeloma has changed markedly in the past decade due to the development of new drugs such as bortezomib, lenalidomide and thalidomide, which have greatly improved the outcome of PCM. The clinical and prognostic value of imm...

In articular cartilage, chondrocytes are surrounded by a narrow region called the pericellular matrix (PCM), which is biochemically, structurally, and mechanically distinct from the bulk extracellular matrix (ECM). Although multiple techniques have been used to measure the mechanical properties of the PCM using isolated chondrons (the PCM with enclosed cells), few studies have measured the biom...

Phase-change memory (PCM) is an important class of data storage, yet lowering the programming current of individual devices is known to be a significant challenge. Here we improve the energy-efficiency of PCM by placing a graphene layer at the interface between the phase-change material, Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST), and the bottom electrode (W) heater. Graphene-PCM (G-PCM) devices have ∼40% lower RESET cur...

Introduction The PCM/FM detection system is shown in Fig. 1. The PCM signal is shaped using a premodulation filter, then frequency modulated and transmitted through a channel with additive gaussian noise. The received signal and noise are shaped by a predetection filter. The PCM waveform is recovered using an FM demodulator such as the discriminator, PLL or FCF, and then passed through a PCM De...

The analytic energy gradients for the combined fragment molecular orbital and polarizable continuum model (FMO/PCM) method are derived and implemented. Applications of FMO/PCM geometry optimization to polyalanine show that the structures obtained with the FMO/PCM method are very close to those obtained with the corresponding full ab initio PCM methods. FMO/PCM (RHF/6-31G* level) is used to opti...

Immunochemical analysis of the Yokenella regensburgei lipopolysaccharides (LPS) indicated the presence of the core oligosaccharide-related immunotypes among the investigated strains. The structure of the core oligosaccharide segment of the Y. regensburgei LPS has been investigated using chemical methods, mass spectrometry, and (1)H, (13)C NMR spectroscopy. It was concluded that the core oligosa...

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a systemic granulomatous disease caused by the dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Anti-PCM vaccine formulations based on the secreted fungal cell wall protein (gp43) or the derived P10 sequence containing a CD4(+) T-cell-specific epitope have shown promising results. In the present study, we evaluated new anti-PCM vaccine formulations based on the in...