Semiconductor-based emitters of pairwise photonic entanglement are a promising constituent quantum technologies. They known for the ability to generate discrete states on-demand with low multiphoton emission, near-unity fidelity, and high single photon indistinguishability. However, dots typically suffer from luminescence blinking, lowering efficiency source hampering their scalable application...

Increase in usage of digital devices and mandatory e-learning imposed during the Covid 19 pandemic curfew may have given rise to an emerging public health threat eyestrain among undergraduate medical students state. The study aimed assess distribution determine association between screen time spent on different for social media use. A cross sectional, questionnaire based online was done a teach...

A novel plasmon-coupled quantum dot (QD) nanocomposite via covalently interfacing the QD surfaces with silver nanoparticles was developed with greatly reduced blinking and enhanced emission fluorescence.

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) provide one possible way of incorporating nonverbal portion of speech into voice based user interfaces. Part of agent’s visual behavior and its appearance is often solved “statically.” There is another possibility to change appearance – dynamically (for example head or eye movements, mouth opening, etc.). Our hypothesis is that some “dynamic” parameters are...

2 profoundly retarded children with extra No. 18 chromosomes were conditioned to emit operant eyeblinks in conformity with continuous and extinction schedules of reinforcement. Conditioning with each child was undertaken at normal feeding times, and when spoonfuls of food were made contingent upon blinking, blink rates increased. On interpolated and final sessions when food was given independen...

Recent models have suggested an important role for neuromodulation in explaining trial-to-trial adaptations in cognitive control. The adaptation-by-binding model (Verguts & Notebaert, Psychological review, 115(2), 518-525, 2008), for instance, suggests that increased cognitive control in response to conflict (e.g., incongruent flanker stimulus) is the result of stronger binding of stimulus, act...

We tested the hypothesis derived from eye blink literature that when liars experience cognitive demand, their lies would be associated with a decrease in eye blinks, directly followed by an increase in eye blinks when the demand has ceased after the lie is told. A total of 13 liars and 13 truth tellers lied or told the truth in a target period; liars and truth tellers both told the truth in two...

Increasing evidence suggests that attention can concurrently select multiple locations; yet it is not clear whether this ability relies on continuous allocation of attention to the different targets (a "parallel" strategy) or whether attention switches rapidly between the targets (a periodic "sampling" strategy). Here, we propose a method to distinguish between these two alternatives. The human...

The primary purpose of the eyelids is to ensure corneal integrity. An important component of this protective function is maintaining the corneal tear film. Blink characteristics can determine tear film stability. Increasing blink amplitude thickens the lipid layer that overlies the aqueous layer of the tear film. This thickening reduces evaporation of the aqueous layer. Because each blink refor...

Spin-coated gold colloids showed a time-dependent increase in emission upon illumination at 532 nm. The emission originated from point-like locations and displayed blinking. The emission spectra of the individual spots and their spatial location remained constant, which is distinct from recent reports on silver nanoparticles. These results suggest the use of emission from gold clusters in nanop...