This paper describes a new measure for presence in immersive virtual environments (VEs) based on data that can be obtained unobtrusively during the course of a VE experience. At different times during an experience a participant will occasionally switch between interpreting the totality of sensory inputs as forming the VE or the real world. The number of transitions from virtual to real is coun...

S. Pislak, P. Robmann and P. Tru ol, in collaboration with J. Egger, W. D. Herold, H. Kaspar, and H. Weyer, Paul{Scherrer{Institut, CH-5234 Villigen Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY-11973, USA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM-87131, USA University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA-15260, USA Yale University, Newhaven, CT-06511, USA Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Scien...

'Click reactions' are the copper catalysed dipolar cycloaddition reaction of azides and alkynes to incorporate nitrogens into a cyclic hydrocarbon scaffold forming a triazole ring. Owing to its efficiency and versatility, this reaction and the products, triazole-containing heterocycles, have immense importance in medicinal chemistry. Copper is the only known catalyst to carry out this reaction,...

Ionic liquid crystals (ILCs) allow the combination of the high ionic conductivity of ionic liquids (ILs) with the supramolecular organization of liquid crystals (LCs). ILCs salts were obtained by the assembly of long-chained diketonylpyridinium cations of the type [HOOR(n)pyH]⁺ and BF₄-, ReO₄-, NO₃-, CF₃SO₃-, CuCl₄2- counter-ions. We have studied the thermal behavior of five series of compounds...

In this abstract, a process is described that we are developing which uses a Ga focused ion beam (FIB) for the fabrication of Nb/AlAlOx/Nb superconductive-insulatingsuperconductive (SIS) tunnel junctions. The objective is to use a machine alignment scheme for the definition and insulation of junctions with diameters as small as 0.5μm for high critical current density (JC) applications. The fabr...

A thorough numerical analysis of the quasi-linear plasma-ICRH wave interaction has been made and will be presented in order to determine the characteristic fast-ion parameters that are necessary for addressing some of the main ITER burning plasma physics issues, e.g. fast ion transport due to collective mode excitations, cross-scale couplings of micro-turbulence with meso-scale fluctuations due...

In this research, we present an improved version of Bidirectional (BD) exact pattern matching (EPM) algorithm to solve the problem of exact pattern matching. Improved-Bidirectional (IBD) exact pattern matching algorithm introduced a new idea of scanning partial text window (PTW) as well with the pattern to take decision of moving pattern to the right of partial text window. IBD algorithm compar...

The title compound, [Cu(C(3)F(5)O(2))(C(3)H(9)OP)(4)](C(3)F(5)O(2)), comprises a cationic Cu(II) complex and a disordered penta-fluoro-propionate counter-ion. The metal atom has a distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment formed by four O atoms originating from trimethyl-phosphine oxide mol-ecules and the remaining one belonging to the monodentate penta-fluoro-propionate anion, which ...