LLE Review, Volume 74 125 In the interaction of strong fields with matter, considerable interest has been shown in the development of high-efficiency frequency up-conversion of ultrashort laser pulses. One important area of interest is in ultrafast laser–solid interactions where up-conversion can lead to higher absorption due to higher-density interactions1 and to an enhancement of the pulse-in...

Time shaping of ultrashort UV pulses has been performed using a specially designed acoustooptic programmable dispersive filter in KDP material. A time window shaping up to 4 ps has been obtained on the 250–410 nm range. Characterization by difference frequency mixing as well as two-photon absorption in diamond has been used.

The antibacterial activity of the polysaccharide chitosan towards different bacterial species has been extensively documented. The response mechanisms of bacteria exposed to this biopolymer and the exact molecular mechanism of action, however, have hardly been investigated. This paper reports the transcriptome profiling using DNA microarrays of the type-strain of Bacillus cereus (ATCC 14579) ex...

Knowledge discovery is defined as “the non trivial extraction of implicit, unknown, and potentially useful knowledge of the data” (Fayyad, Piatetsky-Shiapiro, Smyth, & Uthurusamy, 1996, p. 6). According to these principles, the knowledge discovery process (KDP) takes the results just as they come from the data (i.e., the process of extracting tendencies or models of the data), and it carefully ...

Polarimetric radar data are an important tool for quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE), which is essential monitoring and forecasting precipitation. Previous studies have shown that the drop size distribution (DSD) polarimetric parameters of typhoon-induced differ significantly from those other types rainfall. South China a region frequently experiences typhoons heavy rainfall, can cause...