Time-domain perturbation theory of photon diffusion up to third order was evaluated for its accuracy in deducing optical properties of breast tumors using simulated and physical phantoms and by analyzing 141 projection mammograms of 87 patients with histology-validated tumors that had been recorded by scanning time-domain optical mammography. The slightly compressed breast was modeled as (parti...

Poly (ether) urethane close/open cell (PEUCC/PEUOC) has been prepared by using in situ polymerization approach. The third-order optical nonlinearities of dissolved samples in DMF were characterized by Z-scan technique at the measurement wavelength of 532 nm. The synthesized samples were also examined by optical microscopy and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy. The nonlinear refractive (NLR) indice...

In this paper a third order shear deformation rectangular nanoplate with simply supported boundary conditions is developed for bending, buckling and vibration analysis. to consider the small-scale effects, modified couple stress theory, one length scale parameter, used. The bending rates dimensionless values under uniform surface traction sinusoidal load, critical force uniaxial in x direction ...

State minimization plays a fundamental role in both classical automata theory and in the theory of reactive systems. Many algorithms and results are based on the fact that for each nite automaton there exists an equivalent minimum state automaton that can be eeectively computed and that is unique up to isomorphism. Timed safety automata (TSA's) 5], nite automata with clocks, have been used exte...