A novel design of Dual-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber (DC-PCF) with silica-air microstructures is proposed in this paper. Nonlinearity and confinement loss of DC-PCF are evaluated by using a Full-Vectorial Finite Element Method (FV-FEM) successfully. By optimizing the geometry of three ring DC-PCFs, a high nonlinearity (52w-1km-1) and low confinement loss (0.001dB/km) can be achieved at 1.55μm wav...

The development of the cyclic cluster model (CCM) formalism for Kohn-Sham auxiliary density functional theory (KS-ADFT) methods is presented. The CCM is a direct space approach for the calculation of perfect and defective systems under periodic boundary conditions. Translational symmetry is introduced in the CCM by integral weighting. A consistent weighting scheme for all two-center and three-c...

This paper presents a novel research model – Contextual Constructs Model (CCM) and the theory that underpins it – Contextual Constructs Theory (CCT). First developed as part of a complex project investigating user perceptions of information quality during Web-based information retrieval, the CCM is not a single research method per se, but is a modelled research framework providing an over-archi...

OBJECTIVE To measure organizations' implementation of Chronic Care Model (CCM) interventions for chronic care quality improvement (QI). DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Monthly reports submitted by 42 organizations participating in three QI collaboratives to improve care for congestive heart failure, diabetes, depression, and asthma, and telephone interviews with key informants in the organizations...

The coupled cluster method (CCM) of microscopic quantum many-body theory has become an ab initio method of first choice in quantum chemistry and many fields of nuclear, subnuclear and condensed matter physics, when results of high accuracy are required. In recent years it has begun to be applied with equal success to strongly correlated systems of electrons or quantum spins defined on a regular...

Although the shortcomings of small molecular antitumor drugs were efficiently improved by being entrapped into nanosized vehicles, premature drug release and insufficient tumor targeting demand innovative approaches that boost the stability and tumor responsiveness of drug-loaded nanocarriers. Here, we show the use of the core cross-linking method to generate a micelle with enhanced drug encaps...

In this paper the extended autocorrelation velocity estimator is evaluated and compared using a nondestructive ultrasonic device. For this purpose, three velocity estimators are evaluated and compared. The autocorrelation method (ACM) is the most used and well established in current ultrasonic velocity profiler technology, however, the technique suffers with phase aliasing (also known as the Ny...

In this study we proposes an effective content based image retrieval by color and texture based on wavelet coefficient method to achieve good retrieval in efficiency. Color feature extraction is done by color Histogram. The texture feature extraction is acquired by Gray Level Coocurence Matrix (GLCM) or Color Coocurence Matrix (CCM). This study provides better result for image retrieval by inte...

BACKGROUND: The conventional solution-phase Chemical Cleavage of Mismatch (CCM) method is time-consuming, as the protocol requires purification of DNA after each reaction step. This paper describes a new version of CCM to overcome this problem by immobilizing DNA on silica solid supports. RESULTS: DNA test samples were loaded on to silica beads and the DNA bound to the solid supports underwent ...

Using the coupled cluster method ~CCM!, we present a simple accurate calculation for the energies of the groundand first excited states of the linear E ^ e Jahn–Teller and pseudo-Jahn–Teller Hamiltonians. From the solution of a single transcendental equation, we obtain results with a maximal error of 1.2%. These results are notably better than previous results obtained both via the CCM and othe...