Vortex structure of pure d x 2 y 2 -wave superconductors is microscopically analyzed in the framework of the quasi-classical Eilenberger equations. Selfconsistent solution for the d-wave pair potential is obtained for the rst time in the case of an isolated vortex. The vortex core structure, i.e., the pair potential, the supercurrent and the magnetic eld, is found to be fourfold symmetric even ...

In this paper, we study the problem of separating texture from structure in RGB-D images. Our structure preserving image smoothing operator is based on the region covariance smoothing (RCS) method in [16] that we present a number of modifications to this framework to make it depth-aware and increase its effectiveness. In particular, we propose to incorporate three geometric depth features, name...

A three-dimensional, self-reconfigurable structure is proposed. The structure is a fully distributed system composed of many identical 3-D units. Each unit has functions of changing local connection, information processing, and communication among neighborhood units. Groups of units cooperate to change their connection so that the shape of the whole solid structure transforms into arbitrary sha...

Massive effort has been devoted to understanding biopolymer structure at the nanometer and micrometer scales. Very little success has been achieved studying their structure at intermediate scales. We outline a method to integrate data on the three dimensional structure of whole chromosomes and genomes. The method is based on evolutionary optimality. We hypothesize that the three dimensional str...

Financial factors and ownership structure are both part of the determinants of corporate R&D investment. Considering listed firms in the R&D intensive industries during the 2000s, this paper examines whether financial factors and ownership structure explain R&D investment in Japan. Following the methodology of Brown et al. (2009), which extends the dynamic investment model of Bond and Maghir (1...

Discovering the three dimensional structure of an object is important for a variety of robot tasks. Single sensor systems such as machine vision systems cannot reliably compute three dimensional structure in unconstrained environments. Active, exploratory tactile sensing can be used to complement passive stereo vision data to derive robust surface and feature descriptions of objects. The contro...

The title compound, C6H12O6, was crystallized from an aqueous solution of equimolar mixture of d- and l-fructose (1,3,4,5,6-penta-hydroxy-hexan-2-one, arabino-hexulose or levu-lose), and it was confirmed that d-fructose (or l-fructose) formed β-pyran-ose with a (2) C 5 (or (5) C 2) conformation. In the crystal, two O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds between the hy-droxy groups at the C-1 and C-3 positions, a...

The title compound, C6H12O6, a C-3 position epimer of glucose, was crystallized from an equimolar mixture of d- and l-allose. It was confirmed that d-allose (l-allose) formed β-pyran-ose with a (4) C 1 ((1) C 4) conformation in the crystal. In the crystal, molecules are linked by O-H⋯O hydrogen bond, forming a three-dimensional framework. The cell volume of the racemic β-d,l-allose is 739.36 (3...

We present a self-consistent theory of current-voltage characteristics of d-wave/d-wave contacts at arbitrary transparency. In particular, we address the open problem of the observation of subharmonic gap structure ~SGS! in cuprate junctions. Our analysis shows that ~i! the SGS is possible in d-wave superconductors; ~ii! the existence of bound states within the gap results in an even-odd effect...