Electrowetting (EW)-induced droplet motion has been studied over the last decade in view of its promising applications in the field of microfluidics. The objective of the present work is to analyze the physics underlying two specific EW-based applications for microelectronics thermal management. The first of these involves heat absorption by liquid droplets moving on the surface of a chip under...

One of the important approaches to detect quantum entanglement is using linear entanglement witnesses (EW s). In this paper, by determining the envelope of the boundary hyper-planes defined by a family of linear EW s, a set of powerful nonlinear optimal EW s is manipulated. These EW s enable us to detect some three qubits bound MUB (mutually unbiased bases) diagonal entangled states, i.e., the ...

The equal width wave (EW) equation is a model partial differential equation for the simulation of one-dimensional wave propagation in nonlinear media with dispersion processes. The EW-Burgers equation models the propagation of nonlinear and dispersive waves with certain dissipative effects. In this work, we derive exact solitary wave solutions for the general form of the EW equation and the gen...

INTRODUCTION EnhanceWellness (EW) is a community-based health promotion program that helps prevent disabilities and improves health and functioning in older adults. A previous randomized controlled trial demonstrated a decrease in inpatient use for EW participants but did not evaluate health care costs. We assessed the effect of EW participation on health care costs. METHODS We performed a re...

We have witnessed rapid and exciting development in electrowetting (EW) or electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) since 1990s. Owing to its great advantages such as easy operation, sensitive response and electrical reversibility, EW has found many applications in various fi elds, especially in microand nano-fl uidics, electronic display, etc. The aim of this review is to inspire new investigations...

The most frequently used animal models of early weaning (EW) in rodents, maternal deprivation and pharmacological inhibition of lactation, present confounding factors, such as high stress or drug side effects, that can mask or interact with the effects of milk deprivation per se. Given these limitations, the development of new models of EW may provide useful information regarding the impact of ...

Field measurements of chlorophyll-a (Chl), phycoerythrin (PE), chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and variable fluorescence (F(v)/F(m)) in diverse waters of the California Current, Mediterranean Sea and Gulf of Mexico using 375, 405, 510 and 532 nm laser excitation wavelengths (EW) are analyzed. EW = 375 and 405 nm were found more suitable for Chl assessment in high-Chl (> 10 μg/l) w...

This paper presents a preprocessing technique based on exponential windowing (EW) for parameter estimation of superimposed exponentially damped sinusoids. It is shown that the EW technique significantly improves the robustness to noise over two other commonly used preprocessing techniques: subspace decomposition and higher order statistics. An ad-hoc but efficient approach for the EW parameter ...