A tunable photonic microwave bandpass filter with negative coefficient based on an electro-optic phase modulator (EOPM) and a variable polarization beamsplitter (VPBS) is demonstrated. A two-tap microwave bandpass filter with one negative coefficient is presented. The chromatic dispersion and optical coherence are not affected on this filter. Keywords—Bandpass filter, EOPM, photonic microwave f...

OBJECTIVE To study the possible association or QT dispersion and mean QTc intervals, as measured from standard 12 lead electrocardiograms, with baroreceptor-cardiac reflex sensitivity (BRS) in insulin dependent diabetic patients. DESIGN Comparative study of non-invasive assessment of BRS, QT interval, and QT dispersion. SETTING Large teaching hospital. SUBJECTS 31 young asymptomatic, norm...

In optical communication systems, the technique of alternating dispersion is commonly used as a way to counteract the dispersive pulse broadening. The main limitations, in terms of bit-rate, then come from the fiber Kerr nonlinearity acting through self-phase modulation and four-wave mixing [1]. The recently introduced method of " dispersion management ", where the dispersion compensation is on...

High-Order Mode Dispersion Compensating Modules (HOM-DCM) using spatial optical transformations for mode conversion are reviewed. It is shown that mode transformers using this technology can be designed to transform the LP01 mode of SMF fibers to the LP02 mode of specially designed dispersion compensating High-Order Mode Fiber (HOMF), with typical insertion loss of ∼1 dB, and typical extinction...

We have demonstrated previously that Src controls the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-induced dispersion of NBT-II carcinoma epithelial cells. Here we show that while only Src and Yes were expressed and activated by EGF, microinjected kinase-inactive mutants of Src (SrcK-) and Fyn (FynK-) were able to exert a dominant-negative effect on the scattering response. Both SH2 and SH3 domains of FynK- w...

The objective of this study is to improve the estimation of the dispersion parameter of the negative binomial distribution for modeling motor vehicle collisions. The negative binomial distribution is widely used to model count data such as traffic crash data, which often exhibit low sample mean values and small sample sizes. Under such situations, the most commonly used methods for estimating t...

We study the dispersion of wind-induced near-inertial oscillations (NIOs) in a fully turbulent baroclinicmesoscale eddy Ž eld characterizedby a continuouswavenumber spectrum. The in uence of the eddy Ž eld on the horizontal dispersion of the differentNIO modes is analyzed using a vertical normal mode expansion. Previous studies have identiŽ ed two dispersion regimes: trapping and strong disper...

Negative Binomial (or Poisson-gamma) model has been used extensively by highway safety analysts because it can accommodate the over-dispersion, often exhibited in crash data. However, it has been reported in the literature that the maximum likelihood estimate of the dispersion parameter of NB models can be significantly affected when the data are characterized by small sample size and low sampl...

The factors influencing negative wavelength dispersion are investigated for a series of benzodithiophene based photopolymerisable liquid crystals.

Despite many statistical models that have been proposed for modeling motor vehicle crashes, the most commonly used statistical tool remains the Negative binomial (NB) model. Crash data collected for safety studies may exhibit over-dispersion and a long tail (i.e., a few sites have unusually high number of crashes). However, some studies have shown that NB models cannot handle over-dispersed cou...