Shinsaku Togo, Xiangde Liu, Xingqi Wang, Hisatoshi Sugiura, Koichiro Kamio, Shin Kawasaki, Tetsu Kobayashi, Ronald F. Ertl, Youngsoo Ahn, Olaf Holz, Helgo Magnussen, Karin Fredriksson, C. Magnus Skold, and Stephen I. Rennard Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; Third Department of Internal Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama; ...

Abstract. The scattering of an electromagnetic plane wave by a spherical particle was solved analytically by Gustav Mie in 1908. The Mie solution is expressed as a series with many terms thus obscuring the physical insight. The purpose of this paper is to show that when light scattering is described through the Ramsauer model, the physics gets simpler. For instance, the origin of the structures...

Angle-resolved light scattering spectroscopy of biological cells is investigated in the visible wavelength range. A unified Mie and fractal model is shown to provide an accurate global agreement with light scattering spectra from 1.1 degrees to 165 degrees scattering angles. It is found that light scattering in forward directions (<8 degrees ) is dominated by Mie scattering by the bare cell and...

Enhancers are defined as DNA elements that increase transcription when placed in any orientation relative to a promoter. The major immediate-early (MIE) enhancer region of murine cytomegalovirus is flanked by transcription units ie1/3 and ie2, which are transcribed in opposite directions. We have addressed the fundamental mechanistic question of whether the enhancer synchronizes transcription o...

Multipole expansions of Bessel and Gaussian beams, suitable for use in Mie scattering calculations, are derived. These results allow Mie scattering calculations to be carried out considerably faster than existing methods, something that is of particular interest for time evolution simulations where large numbers of scattering calculations must be performed. An analytic result is derived for the...