A perfect ultra-narrow band infrared metamaterial absorber based on the all-metal-grating structure is proposed. The absorber presents a perfect absorption efficiency of over 98% with an ultra-narrow bandwidth of 0.66 nm at normal incidence. This high efficient absorption is contributed to the surface plasmon resonance. Moreover, the surface plasmon resonance-induced strong surface electric fie...

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs), also known as anionic clays or hydrotalcite-like materials, are a large family of 2D materials constituted by positively charged sheets of hydroxides intercalated by negatively charged anions. In general, the hydrotalcite structures are very robust, with a wide range of possible compositions and so with easily tunable functional properties. In fact, the most ap...

INTRODUCTION Integrative medicine inpatient treatment has been shown to improve physical and mental health in patients with internal medicine conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a 2-week integrative medicine inpatient treatment in patients with chronic pain syndromes and the association of treatment success with patient-related process variables. METHODS ...

Cross-device applications that have user interfaces managed in multiple forms of interaction are prevalent. In particular, componentbased (or mashup) applications are growing in popularity due to their easiness to build customized user interfaces with pieces of information from different sources. Since the user interaction on mashup interfaces can generate a large quantity of data, which can be...

Computer generation of cloze tasks still falls short of full automation; most current systems are used by teachers as authoring aids. Improved methods to estimate cloze quality are needed for full automation. We investigated lexical reading difficulty as a novel automatic estimator of cloze quality, to which cooccurrence frequency of words was compared as an alternate estimator. Rather than rel...

We present a methodology for error analysis in entity annotation. To increase the accuracy in corpora, there is a need for an analysis method for detecting human annotation and schema errors. We use easiness statistics and information gain to gain insights into possible causes of error in the GENIA corpus of MEDLINE abstracts.

A Bayesian analysis of the natural exponential families with quadratic variance function when there are several sources of prior information is considered. The belief of each source is expressed as a conjugate prior distribution. Then, a mixture of them is considered to represent a consensus of the sources. A unified framework considering unknown weights is presented. Firstly, a general procedu...