abstract: in this paper, a method for determination of refractive index in membrane of fuel cell on basis of three-longitudinal-mode laser heterodyne interferometer is presented. the optical path difference between the target and reference paths is fixed and phase shift is then calculated in terms of refractive index shift. the measurement accuracy of this system is limited by nonlinearity erro...

Stability of the ;-; stacking interactions in the substituted-coronene||cyclooctatetraene complexes wasstudied using the computational quantum chemistry methods (where || denotes ;–; stackinginteraction, and substituted-coronene is coronene which substituted with four similar X groups; X =OH, SH, H, F, CN, and NO). There are meaningful correlations between changes of geometricalparameters and t...

We implement a city-level geolocation prediction system for Twitter users. The system infers a user’s location based on both tweet text and user-declared metadata using a stacking approach. We demonstrate that the stacking method substantially outperforms benchmark methods, achieving 49% accuracy on a benchmark dataset. We further evaluate our method on a recent crawl of Twitter data to investi...

Based on 3-D elasticity approach, differential quadrature method (DQM) in axial direction is adopted along with Globalized Nelder–Mead (GNM) algorithm to optimize the stacking sequence of a laminated cylindrical shell. The anisotropic cylindrical shell has finite length with simply supported boundary conditions. The elasticity approach, combining the state space method and DQM is used to obtain...

We have proposed a novel three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystal laser. The electromagnetic field, radiation power density, and lifetime of spontaneous emission of the laser were calculated by a plane-wave method. When a defect layer is introduced into the crystal, spontaneous emission radiates only in the lasing direction. The radiation angle is as sharp as that of a conventional surface-emitt...

Faced to safety constraints, one cannot rely on a single prediction method, especially when the sample size is low. Stacking introduced by Wolpert (1992) and Breiman (1996) is a successful way of combining several models. We modify the usual stacking methodology when the response is binary and predictions highly correlated, by combining predictions with PLS-Discriminant Analysis instead of ordi...

We present a general method for calculating the stacking-fault energy in simple metals, and then we apply this to the ( 1 1 2 ) faults in body-centred cubic (BCC) metals. Our method contains no approximations for a given wavenumber characteristic (or equivalently the pair potential). Our results show that metastable faults do indeed exist in the simple BCC metals (Li, Na. K, Rb, Cs, Ca. Sr, Ba)...

Electron-cooling experiments have been carried out at the HIMAC synchrotron in order to develop new technologies in heavy-ion therapy and related researches. The cool-stacking method, in particular, has been studied to increase the intensity of heavy-ions. The simulation was carried out to optimise the cool-stacking under various injection periods. Further, the beam heating by RF-KO was applied...

We present new astrometry of Pluto’s three satellites from images taken of the Pluto system during 2002-3 with the High Resolution Camera (HRC) mode of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. The observations were designed to produce an albedo map of Pluto but they also contain images of Charon and the two recently discovered satellites, S/2005 P1 and S/2...

The most common phosphor in white LEDs is YAG:Ce; however, low radiant energy produced by this phosphor in the long wavelength (red) portion of the spectrum results in low color rendering (CRI) values, making the white LEDs less acceptable for general illumination. Mixing a suitable red phosphor with YAG:Ce improves CRI. Past studies have shown that when more than one phosphor is used in a conv...