Key actions are single actions or behaviors that can be singled out as leading to the solution of a problem. In the nine-dot problem (Maier, 1930), Kershaw and Ohlsson (2004) proposed that non-dot turns are the key action necessary for solution. In two experiments, non-dot turns are further analyzed as the key action necessary for solving the nine-dot problem and its variants. Non-dot turns are...

The energy levels of CdSe quantum dots are studied by scanning tunneling spectroscopy. By varying the tip−dot distance, we switch from “shell-filling” spectroscopy (where electrons accumulate in the dot and experience mutual repulsion) to “shell-tunneling” spectroscopy (where electrons tunnel, one at a time, through the dot). Shell-tunneling spectroscopy provides the single-particle energy leve...

BACKGROUND Dioscorea opposita Thunb. (Huai Shan Yao, DOT), a common staple food in China, has been used for more than 2000 years in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat different systemic diseases including hypertension. The objective of this study was to investigate the possible antihypertensive effects of the aqueous extract of (DOT) in renovascular hypertensive rats as well as the mec...

Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is an optical imaging modality that has various clinical applications. However, the spatial resolution and quantitative accuracy of DOT is poor due to strong photon scatting in biological tissue. Structural a priori information from another high spatial resolution imaging modality such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been demonstrated to significantly im...

The pixel bootstrapping method is successful to be applied to implement the dot inversion without addition complex controls in LCoS with frame buffer pixels. The relations of common voltage modulation method and bootstrapping method are analyzed. The dot inversion in frame-by-frame addressing method is explained. The dot inversion and the data voltage loss compensation are implemented by bootst...

It is well known that the superposition of two identical random dot patterns may give rise to a particular form of moiré effect known as a Glass pattern. Surprisingly, new research results show that if one chooses appropriate dot shapes for each of the two random dot patterns, while keeping the random dot locations in both layers identical, it is possible to synthesize in the superposition a Gl...

Definitive hosts of the Echinococcus granulosus (E. granulosus ) parasite are carnivores such as dogs,wolves and foxes. Detection of this parasite through faecal examination is not possible. In this study, dotblotting test for E. granulosus -specific coproantigens has been evaluated in dog. Three 2–3-month-old puppies were treated with piperazine and then faecal samples were collected as pre-in...

A dot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dot-ELISA) was standardized using excretory-secretory antigens of Toxocara canis for the rapid immunodiagnosis of human toxocariasis. Thirty patients with clinical signs of toxocariasis, 20 cases with other parasitic diseases, and 40 healthy subjects were tested. A total of 0.2 ng of antigen per dot, serum dilution of 1:160 and dilution conjugate of 1:10...

Braille code, employing six embossed dots evenly arranged in rectangular letter spaces or cells, constitutes the dominant touch reading or typing system for the blind. Limited to 63 possible dot combinations per cell, there are a number of application examples, such as mathematics and sciences, and assistive technologies, such as braille displays, in which the 6-dot cell braille is extended to ...

three different nanostructured semiconductor lasers were studied – the quantum dot passively mode-locked laser, the dual-mode quantum dot laser and the optically-injected quantum dot distributed feedback laser. The key milestones achieved were: 1) the use of optical feedback to reduce the timing jitter of the pulsed lasers from 295 fs/cycle to 32 fs/cycle, 2) experimental determination of the o...