The K̄-nucleus interaction near threshold is strongly attractive and absorptive as suggested by fits to the strong-interaction shifts and widths of K−-atom levels [1]. Global fits yield ‘deep’ optical potentials with Re VK̄(ρ0) ∼ −(150 − 200) MeV [2–5], whereas more theoretically inclined studies that fit the low-energy K−p reaction data, including the I = 0 quasi-bound state Λ(1405) as input for...

The electronic structure of CdSe/CdS core/shell seeded nanorods of experimentally relevant size is studied using a combination of molecular dynamics and semiempirical pseudopotential techniques with the aim to address the transition from type-I to a quasi-type-II band alignment. The hole is found to be localized in the core region regardless of its size. The overlap of the electron density with...

This study investigates overlap priors for tracking the Left Ventricle (LV) endo- and epicardium boundaries in cardiac Magnetic Resonance (MR) sequences. It consists of evolving two curves following the Euler-Lagrange minimization of two functionals each containing an original overlap prior constraint. The latter measures the conformity of the overlap between the nonparametric (kernel-based) in...

We identify some challenges in RSU access problem. There are two main problems in V2R communication. (1) It is difficult to maintain the end-to-end connection between vehicles and RSU due to the high mobility of vehicles. (2) The limited RSU bandwidth resources lead to the vehicles’ disorderly competition behavior, which will give rise tomultiple RSUs having overlap area environment where RSU a...

Wireless local area networks (WLANs) are the most popular kind of wireless Internet connection. However, the number of devices accessing the Internet through WLANs such as laptops, smartphones, or wearables, is increasing drastically at the same time that applications’ throughput requirements do. To cope with the later challenge, channel bonding (CB) techniques are used for enabling higher data...