The effect of introducing a fifth large-scale space-time dimension to the equations of orbital dynamics was analysed in an earlier paper by the authors. The results showed good agreement with the observed flat rotation curves of galaxies. This analysis did not require the modification of Newtonian dynamics, but rather only their restatement in a five dimensional framework. The same analysis der...

The effect of single and double-layer anti-reflective coatings on efficiency enhancement of silicon solar cells was investigated. The reflectance of different anti-reflection structures were calculated using the transfer matrix method and then to predict the performance of solar cells coated by these structures, the weighted average reflectance curves were used as an input of a PC1D simulation....

PURPOSE We investigated the influences of the inner retinal sublayers and analytical areas in macular scans by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) on the diagnostic ability of early glaucoma. METHODS A total of 64 early (including 24 preperimetric) glaucomatous and 40 normal eyes underwent macular and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) scans (3D-OCT-2000). The area...

The first generation of DHT designs offered a completely flat structure of the key space that is randomly partitioned among participating DHT nodes. That has certain advantages, for example, even distribution of workload among nodes. On the other hand, grouping keys under a single authority or achieving latency guarantees for queries is difficult. To address these shortcomings, various kinds of...

We study various bubble solutions in string/M theories obtained by double Wick rotations of (non-)extremal brane configurations. Typically, the geometry interpolates de Sitter space-time × non-compact extra-dimensional space in the near-bubble wall region and the asymptotic flat Minkowski space-time. These bubble solutions provide nice background geometries reconciling string/M theories with de...

It is shown that a system of two coupled planar material sheets possessing surface mode (polariton) resonances can be used for the purpose of evanescent field restoration and, thus, for the sub-wavelength near-field imaging. The sheets are placed in free space so that they are parallel and separated by a certain distance. Due to interaction of the resonating surface modes (polaritons) of the sh...