The restoration of an entire epicortical ECoG-potential pattern from spatially sampled EEG-potentials can be performed according to the general principle of inverse spatial filtering: if a forward spatial filter is an averaging one, then a mutually inverse spatial filter can form a sharpened pattern from a slurred sampled pattern thus restoring more or less a spatial contrast of a primary sourc...

Aims: To clarify the usefulness of preservative-free ophthalmic preparations equipped with a filter. Methods: A total of 1,615 samples of in-use ophthalmic preparations were examined for microbial contamination. Results: Of 1,094 samples of preservative-containing ophthalmic preparations, 31 (2.8%) showed microbial contamination. Of 289 samples of preservative-free ophthalmic preparations witho...

We evaluated the effectiveness of using Flinders Technology Associates (FTA) filter paper for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) genotyping of transgenic mice. Tail prick blood sample dried on an FTA filter disc was processed for genomic PCR. It is easy and rapid to prepare DNA templates because the protocol is extraction-free and only requires minimal handling of wash briefly bloodstained FTA...

We propose and demonstrate a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) on-chip programmable filter based on a four-tap finite impulse response structure. The photonic filter is programmable thanks to amplitude and phase modulation of each tap controlled by thermal heaters. We further demonstrate the tunability of the filter central wavelength, bandwidth and variable passband shape. The tuning range of the cen...

The heavy reliance on incarceration in the United States is unusual relative to U.S. history and relative to the use of incarceration in other nations. By now, the facts are common knowledge. We incarcerate our citizens at a rate that exceeds every other nation and that is multiple times (on the order of five to seven) the rates of other high-income countries. Moreover, since the mid-1970s, our...

In this article, we state the necessary background for cluster algebras and quiver representations to formulate and prove a result of Caldero and Chapoton which gives a nice formula connecting the two subjects. In our exposition, we mostly follow the paper [CC], but we have tried to minimize the reliance of citing outside sources as much as possible. In particular, we avoid having to introduce ...

Travis Horrom,1 Salim Balik,2 Arturo Lezama,3 Mark D. Havey,2 and Eugeniy E. Mikhailov1 1Department of Physics, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA 2Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA 3Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidad de la República, Casilla de correo 30, 11000, Montevideo, Uruguay (Received 20 February 2011; published 31...