We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics--parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic optics. We illustrate the developed formalism on the examples of plasmonic refractor and plasmonic crystal, and discuss limitations of the developed technique an...

Young H. Lim1,2,5, Stephanie R. Douglas3, Christine J. Ko1,2, Richard J. Antaya1,4, Jennifer M. McNiff1,2, Jing Zhou1,2,5, Yale Center for Genome Analysis, Keith A. Choate1,2,5,*, and Deepak Narayan3,* 1Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 3Section of P...

• dispels any misconceptions about the staff’s degree of response to the error. • helps to alleviate their feelings of isolation, helplessness, and confusion about how and why the error occurred. • reduces self-blaming and blaming of individual staff members as the system-based causes of errors are revealed and described. • minimizes their frustration and anger.1–3 • demonstrates the organizati...

An assay technique, homogeneous enzyme immunoassay, is described for the quantitative determination of morphine derivatives in biological fluids. An enzyme is labeled with morphine. When the enzymelabeled morphine is bound by antimorphine antibodies, the enzyme is rendered inactive. Free morphine competes with enzyme-morphine for antibody binding sites preventing inhibition of enzyme activity. ...

Increased competition is making it difficult to distinguish products solely by attributes, creating room for cause-related marketing. In this study with a sample of 322 university students, we evaluated the changes in consumer attitudes toward cause and brand as consequences of Cause Brand Alliance (CBA), by using the product category as moderator. Four popular brands from two product categorie...