We have developed a method to calculate overdensities in multicolour surveys, facilitating a direct comparison of the local density contrast measured using galaxy samples that have different redshift error distributions, i.e. for red and blue, or bright and faint galaxies, respectively. We calculate overdensities in small redshift slices (∆z = 0.02, which at z = 0.3 corresponds roughly to ∆rcom...

This work demonstrated the use of Au nanocages as a new class of lymph node tracers for noninvasive photoacoustic (PA) imaging of a sentinel lymph node (SLN). Current SLN mapping methods based on blue dye and/or nanometer-sized radioactive colloid injection are intraoperative due to the need for visual detection of the blue dye and low spatial resolution of Geiger counters in detecting radioact...

Local adaptation can be a potent force in speciation, with environmental heterogeneity leading to niche specialization and population divergence. However, local adaption often requires nonrandom mating to generate reproductive isolation. Population divergence in sensory properties can be particularly consequential in speciation, affecting both ecological adaptation and sexual communication. Pun...

We examined the distribution of iridophores in the skin of the zebrafish and the effects of a neurotransmitter and hormones on the cells. In the skin of deep blue stripe areas, motile iridophores are distributed over the layer of melanophores, while in the dorsal skin, such cells underlie melanophores and xanthophores. These iridophores assume blue coloration in physiological saline probably th...

Intramolecular excimer emission arising from organic molecules as a blue light source in fluorescent Small Molecule Organic Light Emitting Diodes (SMOLEDs) is almost absent from the literature. In this work, three aryl-substituted DiSpiroFluorene–IndenoFluorenes (DSF–IFs 1–3) possessing different fluorescent properties due to their different main emitters have been investigated through a struct...

Aryl-substituted phenanthroimidazoles (APIs) are beneficial due to their facile synthesis, thermal properties, high quantum yields, and exciton efficiencies obtained by a reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) process. However, it is puzzling how to combine high quantum yields, exciton utilizing ratios and color purity with stable blue-emitting compounds via coupling. Here, BPPI and N-BPPI are uti...

Biological research papers are replete with speculative sentences. We present the BioExcom rule-based system, which detects speculations in biomedical literature. Furthermore, it enables to distinguish automatically between prior and new speculations in the analyzed paper. BioExcom is based on the Contextual Exploration processing (hierarchical research of linguistic surface markers with the EX...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides widespread Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) datasets for climatological and environmental health research. Since MODIS AOD clearly lacks coverage in orbit-scanning gaps and cloud obscuration, some applications will benefit from data recovery using multi-temporal AOD. Aimed at qualitatively describing the relationship between multi-te...

Immersive virtual reality was used to investigate spatial memory in 17 right and 19 left unilateral temporal lobectomy patients and 18 control subjects. The subjects were administered a task consisting of a virtual room and table with radially arranged ‘shells’ on top. The subjects moved around the table and had to find a blue cube, which was under one of the shells. On subsequent searches, the...

The recently launched Chinese GaoFen-4 (GF4) satellite provides valuable information to obtain geophysical parameters describing conditions in the atmosphere and at the Earth’s surface. The surface reflectance is an important parameter for the estimation of other remote sensing parameters linked to the eco-environment, atmosphere environment and energy balance. One of the key issues to achieve ...