We compare the single-particle plasmonic sensitivity of silver and gold nanorods with similar resonance wavelengths by monitoring the plasmon resonance shift upon changing the environment from water to 12.5% sucrose solution. We find that silver nanoparticles have 1.2 to 2 times higher sensitivity than gold, in good agreement with simulations based on the boundary-elements-method (BEM). To excl...

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver developers have long sought to achieve higher sensitivity. This is beneficial for both civilian and military users. Improved sensitivity increases availability in urban and indoor environments and provides greater robustness against radio frequency interference (RFI). With the coming of GPS III, users will have new features that can be used to ...

The influence of large-scale advective cooling and/or moistening on the quasi-equilibrium behavior of simulated, tropical oceanic cumulus ensembles is examined in this study. Two sensitivity simulations are performed by imposing time varying/invariant large-scale advective cooling effects and time invariant/varying large-scale advective moistening effects. The results are compared with a contro...

Data are scattered in public cloud to share among the stake holders which produces much concern over the protection of individual privacy. Without revealing the delicate information, publishing data in a public cloud is a challenging aspect. To reveal data to the public leads to the introduction of many models like kanonymity and l-diversity. These methods safeguard the data against the adversa...

With the wide adoption of handheld devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets), a large number of location-based services (also called LBSs) have flourished providing mobile users with real-time and contextual information on the move. Accounting for the amount of location information they are given by users, these services are able to track users wherever they go and to learn sensitive information abo...

The rationalizability of a choice function by means of a transitive relation has been analyzed thoroughly in the literature. However, not much seems to be known when transitivity is weakened to quasi-transitivity or acyclicity. We describe the logical relationships between the different notions of rationalizability involving, for example, the transitivity, quasi-transitivity, or acyclicity of t...