Plasmonic nanostructures emerged as an appealing approach for black metal absorbers (BMAs) to provide significant light absorption. We present the simple and rapid fabrication of BMAs using laser-induced forward transfer silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Randomly distributed plasmon at a multiscale were produced simultaneously during laser transfer, providing absorption antireflection features. The...

Aerodynamic optimization based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a powerful design approach because it significantly reduces the time compared with human manual design. However, CFD-based can still take hours to converge requires repeatedly running computationally expensive flow simulations. To further shorten time, we propose fast, interactive framework that allows us complete an airfoi...

Signal variation caused by motions along the lift shaft in a campus environment and on board a ship is compared. The guiding effect is common for both lift shafts, and the variation in amplitude of the guided signals is more significant for the lift shaft with larger dimensions. Unlike the lift shaft within the campus, the ship with its lift shaft forms a ‘waveguide within waveguide’ structure....

Non-programmed aging theories suggest that in general symptoms of aging are independent of each other. We can find treatments for highly age-related conditions like cancer, different treatments for heart disease, yet different treatments for Alzheimer’s, and so forth, but aging is itself an untreatable condition. “Anti-aging medicine” is confined to cosmetically delaying the appearance of aging...

will have noticed a number of cosmetic changes made to the journal since it received its last major facelift at the beginning of 1999. Most of these changes have been designed to make the journal a more attractive “read”. But the real changes go more than skin deep. The Editorial Board has been implementing structural changes to the way that the journal is produced and disseminated, with the ai...

BACKGROUND Statistics published by The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery report a 48% increase in cosmetic procedures for 2000-2001 and a 14% increase for rhytidectomies alone. Patients aged 35 to 50 account for 30.2% of all rhytidectomies performed. Many of these patients undergo secondary rhytidectomy. OBJECTIVE We investigated differences between patients undergoing secondary ...

We describe a scenario of independent TV programme dissemination where viewers receive their own tailored channel created from content in which they’re interested. We focus primarily on the problem of distributing the content from the producers to all interested viewers. Our approach is based on a multicast scheme called implicit group messaging, realised as a distributed structured peer-to-pee...

The author provides advice on face lift incision placement to preserve ear contour and maintain normal sideburn position.

In this paper we first develop two new STIT based deontic logics capable of solving the miners puzzle. The key idea is to use pessimistic lifting to lift the preference over worlds into the preference over sets of worlds. We also discuss a more general version of the miners puzzle in which plausibility is involved. In order to deal with the more general puzzle we add a modal operator representi...