When a light stimulus covers the human natural blind spot (BS), perceptual filling-in corrects for the missing information inside the BS. Here, we examined whether a filled-in surface of light perceived inside the BS affects the size of the short-latency pupillary light reflex (PLR), a pupil response mediated by a subcortical pathway for unconscious vision. The PLR was not induced by a red surf...

The generation of a 33.7 W radially polarized output is demonstrated by way double-pass amplification in Ho:YAG thin-slab crystal. amplifier system was seeded with the beam from continuous-wave 13.2 W, 2.1 µm rod laser, which exploited gain medium bifocusing and ring-shaped pump spot to promote preferential lasing on Laguerre–Gaussian mode. By compensating for both thermally induced stress bire...

we introduce center-like subsets z*(r,f), z**(r,f) and z1(r,f), where r is a ring and f is a map from r to r. for f a derivation or a non-identity epimorphism and r a suitably-chosen prime or semiprime ring, we prove that these sets coincide with the center of r.

for an arbitrary ring $r$, the zero-divisor graph of $r$, denoted by $gamma (r)$, is an undirected simple graph that its vertices are all nonzero zero-divisors of $r$ in which any two vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if either $xy=0$ or $yx=0$. it is well-known that for any commutative ring $r$, $gamma (r) cong gamma (t(r))$ where $t(r)$ is the (total) quotient ring of $r$. in this...

let r be a prime ring with extended centroid c, h a generalized derivation of r and n ⩾ 1 a xed integer. in this paper we study the situations: (1) if (h(xy))n = (h(x))n(h(y))n for all x; y 2 r; (2) obtain some related result in case r is a noncommutative banach algebra and h is continuous or spectrally bounded.

a ring $r$ is a strongly clean ring if every element in $r$ is the sum of an idempotent and a unit that commutate. we construct some classes of strongly clean rings which have stable range one. it is shown that such cleanness of $2 imes 2$ matrices over commutative local rings is completely determined in terms of solvability of quadratic equations.

Hot spot content ion on a network-based sharedmemory architecture occurs when a large number of processors try to access a globally shared variable across the network. While Multistage Interconnection Network (MIN) and Hierarchical Ring (HR) structures are two important bases on which to build large scale shared-memory multiprocessors, the different interconnection networks and cache/memory sys...

The genus Hydrangea comprises 70-80 species, some of which have economic importance as flowering plants. Japan has at least 71 hydrangea diseases and approximately one-third the world’s recorded diseases. A large number in are known primarily due to long history disease studies since 1892, pathogen diversity caused by Japan’s high humidity temperature ranges. Recently, new been found several hi...

In this thesis, we asymptotically construct steady-state localized spot solutions to the Brusselator reaction-diffusion system in the semi-strong interaction regime characterized by an asymptotically large diffusivity ratio. We consider two distinct settings: a periodic pattern of localized spots in R2 concentrating at lattice points of a Bravais lattice, and multi-spot solutions that concentra...