images inspired by the remarkable twists and turns in the shape of pollen grains from different plant species collected by the artist from specimens growing in the gardens' cornfield last summer. Kessler was awarded a three-year grant to work with Madeline Harley at the Micromorphology Unit at Kew. The remarkable shapes of pollen grains reveal important diagnostic features of plants used by sci...

The families of Edge Intersection Graphs of Paths in a tree (resp. in a grid) EPT (resp. EPG) are well studied graph classes. Recently we introduced the class of graphs of Edge-Intersecting and NonSplitting Paths in a Tree (ENPT) [2]. In this model, two vertices are adjacent if they represent two intersecting paths of a tree whose union is also a path. In this study we generalize this graph cla...

We present Space-VLBI observations of the quasar 3C 395 which show evidence of the existence of a large bend in the inner parts of its jet, close to the core. This bend would explain why previous Earth-based cm-VLBI observations could not detect the ejection of new moving components, as expected from flux density variability in this source. In general, the observational properties of the jet in...

This paper presents an experimental investigation of an aerosol problem by adopting two methods. One approach utilizes scanning electron microscope to study the realistic aerosol deposition status in a typical duct bend. Through scanning electron microscope images and on-site observation, the aerosols tend to deposit and accumulate more on the outer bend wall and bend outlet wall. The other app...

Excess waveguide bend loss can be minimized through the use of offsets and air trenches. Offsets, used for reducing the junction loss between straight and curved waveguides, and air trenches, which prevent bend radiation loss, were simulated by a three-dimensional, semivectorial beam propagation method. Low loss polymer waveguide bend structures, employing both offsets and trenches, were fabric...

We synthesized a liquid crystal dimer and trimer, which exhibit the twist-bend liquid crystal phase, and characterized their microscopic and nanoscopic properties to identify distinctions in the nature of their respective twist-bend phases. On the microscopic scale, the twist-bend phases formed of each oligomer appear essentially identical. However, while the liquid crystal dimer exhibits a tem...

A plane graph is a planar graph with a fixed embedding. In a no-bend orthogonal drawing of a plane graph, each vertex is drawn as a point and each edge is drawn as a single horizontal or vertical line segment. A planar graph is said to have a no-bend orthogonal drawing if at least one of its plane embeddings has a no-bend orthogonal drawing. In this paper we consider a class of planar graphs, c...

29 ABSTRACT Bend intensive single mode fibers are attractive for fiber to the home (FTTH) applications because they can lower the installation cost and improve the system performance. For in home wiring applications, bend radii in the range of 5 mm are very common [7] and bending losses must be kept minimum. Bending losses of less than 0.1 db/turn will ensure robust network performance under pr...

A numerical study, using the volume-of-fluid method (VOF), has been made of core-annular flow in a curved pipe. We investigated two cases: core-annular flow in a 90◦ bend and in a 180◦ return bend. To verify our numerical method we first compared our results for a singlephase flow in a 90◦ bend with numerical results and experimental data given in the literature. The agreement was good. Thereaf...