A fiber confocal backscattering (FCBS) spectrometer is developed based on fiber confocal microscopy and light scattering theory. The FCBS spectrometer can provide imaging and spectral information simultaneously at the cellular scale. Normal stomach epithelial cell line GES-1 and cancerous cell line NCI-N87 are measured and their spectral results show that backscattering intensity from NCI-N87 c...

The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) are two of the most popular cryptographic algorithms used worldwide. In this paper, we present a hardware implementation of a low-resource cryptographic processor that provides both digital signature generation using ECDSA and encryption/decryption services using AES. The implementation of ECDSA is...

Improving the thermoelectric efficiency is one of the greatest challenges in materials science. The recent discovery of excellent thermoelectric performance in simple orthorhombic SnSe crystal offers new promise in this prospect [Zhao et al. Nature 508, 373 (2014)]. By calculating the thermoelectric properties of orthorhombic IV-VI compounds GeS,GeSe,SnS, and SnSe based on the first-principles ...

Ternary chalcogenide glass films from identical parent bulk glasses were prepared by thermal evaporation (TE) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and subjected to 810-nm femtosecond laser exposure at both kHz and MHz repetition rates. The exposure-induced modification on the glass film's surface profile, refractive index, and structural properties were shown to be a function of laser irradiance, ...

3 Monnier, M. and Hatt, A. M.: Intraventricular infusions in acute and chronic rabbits. Application of the stereotaxic method of Monnier and Gangloff. Pflügers Arch. ges. Physiol. 317: 268-277 (1970). 4 Monnier, M. and Hatt, A. M. : New evidence of humoral transmission of sleep. Experientia 27: 722 (1971). 5 Monnier, M. and Hatt, A. M.: Humoral transmission of sleep. V. New evidence from produc...

BACKGROUND Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) represents a new therapy in patients with intractable vomiting and nausea. We aimed to determine preoperative factors associated with positive response during GES. Thirty-three consecutive patients received implants for medically refractory nausea or vomiting or both. STUDY DESIGN Symptoms, Quality of Life (QOL), and gastric emptying (GE) were m...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) is an effective therapy to treat patients with chronic dyspepsia refractory to medical management. However, its mechanisms of action remain poorly understood. METHODS Gastric pain was induced by performing gastric distension (GD) in anesthetized rats. Pain response was monitored by measuring the pseudo-affective reflex (e.g., blood pressu...

Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with increased risk for the development of gastric cancer. Animal studies have also shown that H. pylori infection leads to gastric carcinogenesis, especially intestinal phenotypes. However, no in vitro study has been carried out for cell transformation induced by H. pylori. The present study aimed to inves...

3 Monnier, M. and Hatt, A. M.: Intraventricular infusions in acute and chronic rabbits. Application of the stereotaxic method of Monnier and Gangloff. Pflügers Arch. ges. Physiol. 317: 268-277 (1970). 4 Monnier, M. and Hatt, A. M. : New evidence of humoral transmission of sleep. Experientia 27: 722 (1971). 5 Monnier, M. and Hatt, A. M.: Humoral transmission of sleep. V. New evidence from produc...

In the paper, a Newton-type method for solution of generalized equations (GEs) is derived, where linearization concerns both single-valued and multivalued part considered GE. The based on new notion semismoothness${}^*$, which, together with suitable regularity condition, ensures local superlinear convergence. An implementable version derived class GEs, frequently arising in optimization equili...