We predict and demonstrate the generation of a plasmonic hot spot on the surface of a metal film by the interference of two Airy surface plasmons. We show that the position of the hot spot can be controlled by the distance between the excitation gratings as well as by the phase front of the initial excitation. The observed effect constitutes a planar analogy to Airy beam autofocusing and offers...

We wish to estimate the cell loss ratio of a hot spot buffer buried deep in the fabric of an ATM switch. Since cell losses are rare events we cannot efficiently estimate the cell loss ratio using crude Monte-Carlo methods. We increase (twist) the workload of the hot spot to produce frequent cell losses. The twist is used with the splitting A-cycle sampling technique to efficiently estimate the ...

BACKGROUND Hot-spot based examination of immunohistochemically stained histological specimens is one of the most important procedures in pathomorphological practice. The development of image acquisition equipment and computational units allows for the automation of this process. Moreover, a lot of possible technical problems occur in everyday histological material, which increases the complexit...

Citation: Hossain M, Rahman SN, Bhattacharya P, Jacks G, Saha R and Rahman M (2015) Sustainability of arsenic mitigation interventions—an evaluation of different alternative safe drinking water options provided in Matlab, an arsenic hot spot in Bangladesh. Front. Environ. Sci. 3:30. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00030 Sustainability of arsenic mitigation interventions—an evaluation of different alter...

We sought to determine if adenosquamous proliferation of early cellular radial sclerosing lesions of the breast harbours hot spot mutations and to help clarify its relationship to low-grade adenosquamous carcinoma as a potential form of early neoplasia. Four low-grade adenosquamous carcinomas, early radial sclerosing lesions from 13 individuals, and 4 benign proliferative breast lesions were mi...

We participated in the i2b2 smoking status classification challenge task. The purpose of this task was to evaluate the ability of systems to automatically identify patient smoking status from discharge summaries. Our submission included several techniques that we compared and studied, including hot-spot identification, zero-vector filtering, inverse class frequency weighting, error-correcting o...

Memory system congestion due to serialization of hot spot accesses can adversely affect the performance of interprocess coordination algorithms. Hardware and software techniques have been proposed to reduce this congestion and thereby provide superior system performance. The combining networks of Gottlieb et al. automatically parallelize concurrent hot spot memory accesses, improving the perfor...

T h e shadowing theor~j has been widely used to account fi~r the hot-.spot effect fi~r the canopy and soil. However, it is not valid for soils' that are composed of fine particles and &~ not have weU-defined shadows. The coherent backseattering theorTj is used in this study to calculate both the nuzgnitude and the angular width of the hotspot peak .fi~r clay and silt soils'. The .soil hot-spot ...

Sequence analysis of recombination break points has defined a 377-bp recombination hot spot within the anthocyanin 1 (a1) gene. One-fifth of all recombination events that occurred within the 140-kb a1-shrunken 2 interval resolved within this 377-bp hot spot. In yeast, meiotic double-strand breaks in chromosomal DNA are thought to initiate recombination and are generally located 5' of coding reg...

Das Robotersystem für die Transkranielle Magnetstimulation (TMS) ermöglicht eine präzise und wiederholbare Positionierung der TMS-Spule auf dem Kopf des Patienten. Um einen sicheren Einsatz des Roboters zu gewährleisten, ist oftmals eine manuelle Vorpositionierung des Roboters nötig, um einen gewünschten Stimulationspunkt zu erreichen. Mittels der Kraft-Momenten-Steuerung (KMS) ist es möglich d...