One of the key enabling features of coherent Raman scattering (CRS) techniques is the dramatically improved imaging speed over conventional vibrational imaging methods. It is this enhanced imaging acquisition rate that has guided the field of vibrational microscopy into the territory of real-time imaging of live tissues. In this feature article, we review several aspects of fast vibrational ima...

Solid-state geometry optimizations and corresponding normal-mode analysis of the widely used energetic material cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) were performed using density functional theory with both the generalized gradient approximation (BLYP and BP functionals) and the local density approximation (PWC and VWN functionals). The structural results were found to be in good agreement with e...

The direct methods of breaking the phase ambiguity intrinsic in one-wavelength anomalous scattering (OAS) data and MAD phasing are powerful methods in their own rights. In a different context, in addition to their success in phasing OAS data, direct methods can also be useful in the treatment of MAD data. The idea has been tested with the MAD data at 2.5 A resolution from the protein human aden...

Dielectrophoretic dynamic light-scattering (DDLS) spectroscopy is presented. DDLS identifies macromolecules based on their dielectric, or polarizability, properties. DDLS measurements are carried out in an oscillating, nonuniform electric field. The field induces macromolecules to undergo dielectrophoretic motion, which is detected by the modulation in the dynamic light-scattering autocorrelati...

| This paper presents a realistic modeling framework for evaluating the performance of location management schemes in PCS networks. The framework captures complex human behaviors and has been validated through analysis of actual call and mobility data. Simulation results, showing the performance of IS-41, are presented.

Abstract. In this paper, intuitionistic fuzzy h-bi-ideals and intuitionistic fuzzy hquasi-ideals of hemirings are studied and some related properties are investigated. We characterize fully idempotent hemirings by the properties of their intuitionistic fuzzy h-ideals.We also characterize h-hemiregularity, h-intra-hemiregularity and h-quasi-hemiregularity in hemirings by the properties of their ...

We present an optimization model to find joint inspection and maintenance policies for infrastructure facilities under performance model uncertainty. The objective in the formulation is to minimize the total expected social cost of managing facilities over a finite planning horizon. As in recent optimization models, performance model uncertainty is accounted for by representing facility deterio...

We employ set oriented methods in combination with graph partitioning algorithms to identify key dynamical regions in the Sun-Jupiter-particle three-body system. Transport rates from a region near the 3:2 Hilda resonance into the realm of orbits crossing Mars' orbit are computed. In contrast to common numerical approaches, our technique does not depend on single long term simulations of the und...

To investigate neural processes underlying temporal credit assignment in the striatum, we recorded neuronal activity in the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum (DMS and DLS, respectively) of rats performing a dynamic foraging task in which a choice has to be remembered until its outcome is revealed for correct credit assignment. Choice signals appeared sequentially, initially in the DMS and t...