A new composite film based on calcined layered rare earth hydroxides and poly(vinyl alcohol) shows a visible light transmittance comparable to that of the pure matrix, highly reinforced mechanical strength as well as tunable photoluminescence in rolled and folded shapes.

rapid expansions of new location-based services signify the need for finding accurate localization techniques for indoor environments. among different techniques, rss-based  schemes and in particular oneof its variants which is based on graph-based semi-supervised learning (g-ssl) are widely-used approaches the superiority of this scheme is that it has low setup/training cost and at the same ti...

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been intensively studied as a key technology for next-generation displays and lighting. The efficiency of OLEDs has improved markedly in the last 15 years by employing phosphorescent emitters. However, there are two main issues in the practical application of phosphorescent OLEDs (PHOLEDs): the relatively short operational lifetime and the relatively h...

We present CAREY, an alert system notification for regions in state of emergency. CAREY implements the mediator-wrapper architecture on top of the Geospatial Web to visualize risky regions in terms of their weather conditions. We illustrate the formalization of the problem of detecting risky regions as a two-fold problem that relies on annotations of sensor data with the ontology of Observation...

A novel 3-D cuprous iodide polymer [CuI(μ6-L)]n with a Cu/I ratio as high as 3 (1, H2L = 1,3-bis(2H-tetrazol-5-yl)benzene) has been hydrothermally synthesized. The 3-D framework of 1 is constructed by the linkages of rare 1-D cationic aggregates [CuI2+]n and anionic bi-tetrazolate bridges. 1 shows unusually thermochromic luminescent and photocatalytic properties, and its density functional theo...

to optimize the field evaluation of resistance to cercospora leaf spot, 12 sugar beet cultivars were evaluated under field conditions in gharakhil, ghaemshahr at 15-days intervals. measurements were carried out based on kws 1-9 and agronomia 1-5 scales. disease severities were graded based on total plants per plot and also based on means of 5 randomly selected plants in each plot. analysis of e...