The objective of research in thermonuclear fusion is to find an environmentally attractive technology for the production of electrical energy that is both universally available and economically competitive. The method of containing the hot, dense plasma known as Inertially Confined Fusion Energy (IFE) uses small targets containing the deuterium and tritium isotopes of hydrogen which are implosi...

The Electra advanced pulsed power development program has the goal of developing and demonstrating pulsed power technology that is applicable for KrF (krypton fluoride) Laser IFE (inertial fusion energy). The application presents efficiency, lifetime and cost challenges that mandate the use of advanced pulse compression topologies. In turn, these advanced topologies require the development of c...

PURPOSE Retrospective studies have shown that immunoassays measuring free light chains (FLC) in serum are useful for diagnosis and monitoring of multiple myeloma. This study prospectively evaluates the use of FLC assays and, for the first time, investigates the relationship between serum FLC concentrations and the presence and detectability of Bence Jones (BJ) proteins in the urine. PATIENTS ...

Abstract Recently, the synchrosqueezing transform (SST) was developed as an alternative to the empirical mode decomposition scheme to separate a non-stationary signal with time-varying amplitudes and instantaneous frequencies (IFs) into a superposition of frequency components that each have well-defined IFs. The continuous wavelet transform (CWT)-based SST sharpens the time-frequency representa...

A field experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of variety and spatial arrangement on pest incidence, damage and subsequent yield of cowpea in a cowpea/maize intercrop. Two varieties of cowpea (Tvu 13076 and Ife brown) and two spatial arrangements (2:3 maize/ cowpea & 1:1maize/ cowpea intercrops) were investigated. There was Lower population density of Maruca vitrata among the 1:1...

In this paper, we derive a priori error estimates for a class of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods using immersed finite element (IFE) functions for a classic second-order elliptic interface problem. The error estimation shows that these methods can converge optimally in a mesh-dependent energy norm. The combination of IFEs and DG formulation in these methods allows local mes...

The inverse Faraday effect (IFE), where a static magnetization is induced by circularly polarized light, offers promising route to ultrafast control of spin states. Here we study the IFE in Mott insulators using Floquet theory. We find two distinct behavior governed inversion symmetry. In with symmetry, that effective magnetic field couples ferromagnetically neighboring spins. While for without...

At present, with increase of requirements in various energy sources, a power plant design for inertial fusion energy (IFE) is a very important problem. The experiments for this part have been carrying out for some main problems only. Main aspects of IFE problem are connected with the physics of proceed of fusion thermonuclear reaction in plasma with inertial keeping, with hydrodynamics and shoc...

In inertial fusion energy (IFE) research, a considerable attention has recently been focused on the issue of large target fabrication for MJ-class laser facilities. The ignition and high-gain target designs require a condensed uniform layer of hydrogen fuel on the inside of a spherical shell. In this report, we discuss the current status and further trends in the area of developing the layering...