This paper inlroduces the thermal column or the cold neutron guide beam of the 20 MW NBSR at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a direct k o measurement facility. Measurement of k o at this facility not only produces accurate values, but avoids the additional correction factors needed in other measurement methods. The ko of Sb, Ag and Cr with respect to Sc as monitor have bee...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Estimation of haemoglobin is the most widely used method to assess anaemia. Although direct cyanmethaemoglobin method is the recommended method for estimation of haemoglobin, but it may not be feasible under field conditions. Hence, the present study was undertaken to compare indirect cyanmethaemoglobin method against the conventional direct method for haemoglobin estima...

Continuous-variable quantum information protocols use quantum operations and measurements acting on states with continuous eigenvalue spectra to perform quantum information tasks such as quantum teleportation, quantum key distribution, and quantum processing [1]. An attraction of continuous-variable protocols is that many require only Gaussian states, operations, and measurements [2]—all of whi...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective review was carried out on 23 patients with rigid fixed kyphosis who underwent surgical correction for their deformity. PURPOSE To report the results of surgical correction of fixed kyphosis according to the surgical approaches or methods. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Surgical correction of fixed kyphosis is more dangerous than the correction of any other spinal deform...

In traditional video conferencing systems, it is impossible for users to have eye contact when looking at the conversation partner’s face displayed on the screen, due to the disparity between the locations of the camera and the screen. In this work, we implemented a gaze correction system that can automatically maintain eye contact by replacing the eyes of the user with the direct looking eyes ...

High-contrast imaging systems with a stellar halo suppression level of 10(-10) are required for direct detection of Earth-like extra-solar planets. We investigated a novel high-contrast imaging system with an unbalanced nulling interferometer (UNI) followed by phase and amplitude correction (PAC), which not only can reduce starlight but also can suppress the speckle level caused by wavefront ab...

This comment finds an error in De Fraja (1999), the correction of which overturns its main result. In contrast to his claim, under a mild condition, the suggested contract is not only unable to solve the hold-up problem but it can provide almost no incentive for specific investments, when they exhibit sufficiently large direct externalities. His result holds primarily when the investments have ...