Although previously reported terahertz absorbers can achieve high-sensitivity refractive index sensing, the resonant peak is too broad, which leads to a low figure of merit (FOM). Transmissive sensors based on bound states in continuum (BIC) high FOM, but they have some limitations sensitivity. Herein, we propose periodic triple parallel metal bars structure obtain quality, strong field, and mu...

OBJECTIVE It has been proposed that biocompatible bicarbonate/lactate based (Bic/Lac), physiologic-pH peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions will be beneficial in long-term PD. However, we do not yet have detailed knowledge concerning the comparative physiology of buffer transport for these new solutions and their impact on underlying peritoneal transport of solutes and ultrafiltration (UF). The pu...

An anisotropic photonic crystal containing two defect layers is considered. It demonstrated that the system can support a Fabry-Perot bound state in continuum (FP-BIC). A fully analytic solution of scattering problem as well condition for FP-BIC have been derived framework temporal coupled-mode theory.

Model-selection criteria such as AIC and BIC are widely used in applied statistics. In recent years, there has been a huge increase in modeling data from large complex surveys, and a resulting demand for versions of AIC and BIC that are valid under complex sampling. In this paper, we show how both criteria can be modified to handle complex samples. We illustrate with two examples, the first usi...

Chen et al. (2010) propose a unified method – coordinate-independent sparse estimation (CISE) – that is able to simultaneously achieve sparse sufficient dimension reduction and screen out irrelevant and redundant variables efficiently. However, its attractive features depend on appropriate choice of the tuning parameter. In this note, we re-examine the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) in su...

A more detailed presentation is given for the simulation experiment reported in Xu and McLeod (2010, Table 2) comparing the performance of the bicq with the aic, bic and bic for linear model selection. The scripts displayed in this document may be manually extracted using an editor from the file SimExperimentBICq.Rnw which is located in the subdirectory inst/doc. Alternatively if the R package ...

Serum Phylloquinone Concentrations in a Normal Population of Children as Compared with the Reference Interval in Adults, Willy E. Lambert, Lutgart Vanneste, Andr#{233} P. De Leenheer (Lab. voor Med. Biochem. en voor Klin. Anal., Harelbekestraat, 72 B9000 Gent, Belgium), and Olivier Am#{233}dee-Manesme (INSERM, U56 et Dept. de P#{233}diatrie, Hopital de Bic#{234}tre, 78, rue du G#{233}neral-Lecl...

A new polymorph of N,N'-bis-(2,6-diisopropyl-phen-yl)formamidine, C(25)H(36)N(2), is reported, which is different from the previously reported ortho-rhom-bic structure. The mol-ecule crystallizes in the E-anti configuration, with tautomeric disorder of the N-bonded H atoms and no clear distinction between imine and amine functionalities. The mol-ecules form hydrogen-bonded dimers with inter-mol...

As the barren lands play a key role in the interaction between land cover dynamics and climate system, an efficient methodology for the global-scale extraction and mapping of the barren lands is important. The discriminative potential of the existing soil/bareness indexes was assessed by collecting globally distributed reference data belonging to major land cover types. The existing soil/barene...

To ascertain the role of the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in shaping and controlling the phasic discharge patterns of medullary respiratory premotor neurons, localized pressure applications of the competitive GABAA receptor antagonist bicuculline (BIC) and the noncompetitive GABAA receptor antagonist picrotoxin (PIC) were studied. Multibarrel micropipettes were use...