Acute life-threatening intoxications with insecticides are rare. We report a case of accidental near-fatal thiacloprid intoxication with mass spectrometry-based analytical confirmation. The initial clinical presentation resembled imminent brain death and/or severe postanoxic encephalopathy. Prolonged supportive treatment resulted in full recovery underlining intoxication as an important differe...

We investigate the secure communications over correlated wiretap Rayleigh fading channels assuming the full channel state information (CSI) available. Based on the information theoretic formulation, we derive closed-form expressions for the average secrecy capacity and the outage probability. Simulation results confirm our analytical expressions.

We discuss a simple first-principles homogenization theory for describing, in the long-wavelength limit, the effective bianisotropic response of a periodic metamaterial composite without intrinsic chiral and magnetic inclusions. In the case where the dielectric contrast is low, we obtain a full analytical description which can be considered the extension of Landau-Lifshitz-Looyenga effective-me...

Abstract We derive analytical solutions for the uniaxial extension problem relaxed micromorphic continuum and other generalized continua. These may help in identification of material parameters continua which are able to disclose size effects.

In this paper cross-phase modulation (XPM) and its impact on multispan NRZ-modulated wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems is examined. An analytical model is presented to assess the signal degradation. The impairments due to XPM are related to a Q-factor. The presented formulas are examined for different dispersion compensation schemes and also mixed-fiber systems. The analytical mode...

A new approach to signal processing of analytical time-domain data is presented. It consists in identifying the types of noise, characterizing them, and subsequently subtracting them from the otherwise unprocessed data set. The algorithms have been successfully applied to three classes of noise commonly found in analytical signals: spikes, ripples, and baseline drift. Traditional filters have b...

We report a new analytical method for finding the exact solution of homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations with arbitrary order and variable coefficients. The method is based on the definition of jump transfer matrices and their extension into limiting differential form. The approach reduces the nth-order differential equation to a system of n linear differential equations with unit...

An accurate prediction of reaction kinetics of silicon nitridation is of great importance in designing procedure of material production and controlling of reaction. The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of temperature on the kinetics of reaction bonded silicon nitride (RBSN) formation. To achieve this, nitrogen diffusion in the silicon nitride layer is considered as...

We study the effect of mergers in the force chain model describing the stress profile in static granular materials. Combining numerical and analytical calculations, we show that granular materials do not generally behave in an elasticlike manner; however, they may under specific conditions, which are elaborated. Nonelastic behavior resulting from the nonlinearity of the full force chain model i...

The recent measurement of negative higher-order Kerr effect (HOKE) terms in gases has given rise to a controversial debate, fed by its impact on short laser pulse propagation. By comparing the experimentally measured yield of the third and fifth harmonics, with both an analytical and a full comprehensive numerical propagation model, we confirm the absolute and relative values of the reported HO...