Chronic lung transplant rejection (termed chronic lung allograft dysfunction [CLAD]) is the main impediment to long-term survival after lung transplantation. Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) represent an attractive cell therapy in inflammatory diseases, including organ rejection, given their relative immune privilege and immunosuppressive and tolerogenic properties. Preclini...

We perform two analyses on temperature effects in Metal-Clad Subwavelength Semiconductor Lasers (MCSELs). Firstly, we analyze the temperature dependence of the threshold gain in the infinite waveguide approximation. We show that the dielectric layer of the semiconductor-dielectric-metal composite waveguide (CWG) becomes increasingly important as temperature increases. However, we further show t...

The paper emphasizes the propagation behavior of dielectric optical waveguides with elliptical cross-section with the introduction of conducting helical windings at the core-clad interface. Helix pitch angle plays the determining role to control the wave propagation. For the sake of simplicity, two extreme values of pitch angle, namely, 0 and 90, are taken into account, and studies are made...

An advanced feedback control strategy for a vapor-phase axial deposition (VAD) is investigated in this paper. VAD is a widely used process in the creation of high purity glass for optical fiber. In previous work a soot tip surface temperature controller was developed for the VAD process to reduce the effects of core soot temperature variation on deposition geometry, leading to a more stable pro...

Powell's(1984) Censored Least Absolute Deviations (CLAD) estimator for the censored linear regression model has been regarded as a desirable alternative to maximum likelihood estimation methods due to its robustness to conditional heteroscedasticity and distributional misspeci ̄cation of the error term. However, the CLAD estimation procedure has failed in certain empirical applications (e.g. Hon...

We explore and demonstrate quantum confinement without walls in metal-clad InAs quantum wells. We observed intersubband absorption from confined states in InAs clad with Al, Sb, Nb, W, Pt, Ag, Au, Ti or In. We found that using this novel method, we can explore the physics and chemistry at the metal–semiconductor interface; reflection, autoionization, well-width fluctuation and interface reactio...