We have studied both experimentally and numerically the dynamic effect of nonlinearity on lasing in disordered medium. The third-order nonlinearity not only changes the frequency and size of lasing modes, but also modifies the laser emission intensity and laser pulse width. When the nonlinear response time is longer than the lifetime of the lasing mode, the nonlinearity changes the laser output...

Phosphaferrocenes in combination with coinage metal salts proved to be excellent building blocks in supramolecular chemistry for the buildup of oligomeric and polymeric assemblies. The synthesis of a series of novel phosphaferrocenes containing the 1,3-P2C3iPr3 and/or the 1,2,4-P3C2iPr2 ligand is described herein. The self-assembly processes of the 1,3-diphospha-, 1,2,4-triphospha-, and 1,1',2,...

Variation in population size over time can influence our ability to identify landscape-moderated differences in community assembly. To date, however, most studies at the landscape scale only cover snapshots in time, thereby overlooking the temporal dynamics of populations and communities. In this paper, we present data that illustrate how temporal variation in population density at a regional s...

Social and ecological vulnerability to disasters and outcomes of any particular extreme event are influenced by buildup or erosion of resilience both before and after disasters occur. Resilient social-ecological systems incorporate diverse mechanisms for living with, and learning from, change and unexpected shocks. Disaster management requires multilevel governance systems that can enhance the ...

We propose a new geometric buildup algorithm for the solution of the distance geometry problem in protein modeling, which can prevent the accumulation of the rounding errors in the buildup calculations successfully and also tolerate errors in given distances. In this algorithm, we use all instead of a subset of available distances for the determination of each unknown atom and obtain the positi...

The superior colliculus (SC) has long been known to be important for the control of saccades, and recent findings indicate that the rostral SC (rSC) plays some role in pursuit as well. The recent finding that the prelude activity of some SC neurons exhibits directional selectivity suggests that the rSC might process visual motion signals relevant for the control of pursuit. We have now tested t...

A multiphase transient non-Newtonian three-dimensional (3-D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation has been performed for pulsatile hemodynamics in an idealized curved section of a human coronary artery. We present the first prediction, to the authors' knowledge, of particulate buildup on the inside curvature using the multiphase theory of dense suspension hemodynamics. In this study, t...

Introduction: During the past 30 years, the melting methods and associated molten metal-handling systems used by the U.S. foundry industry have changed significantly. During the same period, while ductile iron production has experienced continued growth, the quality of metallic scrap and other ironunit feed stocks has steadily deteriorated. The result: slag related melting problems have become ...

When target-color repeats in pop-out visual search performance is faster than otherwise. While various characteristics of such priming of pop-out (PoP) are well known, relatively little is known about the temporal character of the memory traces underlying the effect. Recent findings on the perception of ambiguous stimuli show that the percept at any given moment is affected by perception over a...