This paper presents a molecular dynamics (MD) scheme for the automatic generation of dot patterns for the light guides used in LCD backlight modules. Several MD computational techniques are integrated with the conventional MD scheme to enable the adjustment of the dot density in specific regions of the light guide in order to create a dot distribution with a high dot density variation and a hig...

CONTEXT: Ventilation-perfusion (V(dot)Q(dot) lung scanning and computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) are widely used imaging procedures for the evaluation of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. Ventilation-perfusion scanning has been largely replaced by CTPA in many centers despite limited comparative formal evaluations and concerns about CTPA's low sensitivity (ie, chance o...

We study the coupling between a photonic crystal cavity and an off-resonant quantum dot under resonant excitation of the cavity or the quantum dot. Linewidths of the quantum dot and the cavity as a function of the excitation laser power are measured. We show that the linewidth of the quantum dot, measured by observing the cavity emission, is significantly broadened compared to the theoretical e...

global tuberculosis (tb) report (2013) has revealed that an estimated 8.6 million people developed tb of which, india accounts for almost 26% of the cases. these estimates clearly suggest that the country’s efforts to achieve millennium development goal 6 by 2015 have not delivered the desired output. in india, the tb prevention and control activities are supervised and implemented under the re...

The effect of a Coulombic coupling on the dynamics of a quantum dot hybridized to leads is determined. The calculation treats the interaction between charge fluctuations on the dot and the dynamically generated image charge in the leads. A formally exact solution is presented for a dot coupled to a Luttinger liquid and an approximate solution, equivalent to treating the lead dynamics within a r...

Maximum motion displacement (Dmax) represents the largest dot displacement in a random-dot kinematogram (RDK) at which direction of motion can be discriminated. Direction discrimination thresholds for maximum motion displacement (Dmax) are not fixed but are stimulus dependent. For first-order RDKs, Dmax is larger as dot size increases and/or dot density decreases. Dmax may be limited by the rec...

We consider the inhomogeneous biharmonic nonlinear Schr dinger (IBNLS) equation in $${\mathbb {R}}^N$$ , $$\begin{aligned} i \partial _t u +\Delta ^2 -|x|^{-b} |u|^{2\sigma }u = 0, \end{aligned}$$ where $$\sigma > 0$$ and $$b . first study local well-posedness $${\dot{H}}^{s_c}\cap \dot{H}^2 $$ for $$N\ge 5$$ $$0<s_c<2$$ $$s_c=\frac{N}{2}-\frac{4-b}{2\sigma }$$ Next, we established a Gagliardo-...

INTRODUCTION Decentralization of Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) for tuberculosis (TB) to the community (home-based DOT) has improved the coverage of TB treatment and reduced the burden to the health care facilities (facility-based DOT). We aimed to compare TB treatment outcomes in home-based and facility-based DOT under programmatic conditions in an urban setting with a high TB burden. MET...

Green Dot Public Schools is a nonprofit organization that operates more than 20 public charter middle and high schools in California, Tennessee, and Washington. The Green Dot Public Schools are regulated and monitored by the local school district, but operate outside of the district’s direct control. The Green Dot Public Schools model emphasizes high quality teaching, strong school leadership, ...

Conventional digital halftoning approaches function by modulating either the dot size (amplitude modulation or AM) or the dot density (frequency modulation or FM). Generally, AM halftoning methods have the advantages of low computation and good print stability, while FM halftoning methods typically have higher spatial resolution and resistance to Moiré artifacts. In this paper, we present a new...