A compound eye and retina-like combination sensor based on a space-variant curved micro lens array (CMLA) is proposed to simultaneously offer the large FOV characteristic of a compound eye and retina-like feature of a single aperture eye. The mathematical models of the sensor are developed and the structure parameters of the space-variant CMLA are deduced. Modeling verification is carried out a...

The phylogenetic position of tardigrade is a controversial and uncertain field among scientists. The tiny animals are considered to belong to an independent phylum called “Tardigrada”.Recent phylogenomics studies based on expression sequence tag (EST) and micro RNAs (miRNAs) have confirmed the phylogenetic position of tardigrades as a sister group of the arthropods [1]. Tardigrades are segmente...

In this paper, we first give a characterization of sub-topical functions with respect to their lower level sets and epigraph. Next, by using two different classes of elementary functions, we present a characterization of sub-topical functions with respect to their polar functions, and investigate the relation between polar functions and support sets of this class of functions. Finally, we obtai...

In this research, the new separation method based on micro solvent cluster extraction and preferential solvation has been described. A proposed separation method using aqueous mixed solvents of organic solvents (acetonitrile, 1-propanol, 2-propanol and 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol) or ionic liquids and an open tubular capillary has been separated the model compounds (2-naphthol, 4-nitroani...