We design a novel long-range hybrid wedge plasmonic (LRHWP) waveguide composed of two identical dielectric nanowires symmetrically placed on two opposed wedges of a diamond shaped metal wire. With strong coupling between the dielectric nanowire mode and long-range surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode, both deep subwavelength mode confinement and low propagation loss are achieved. On one hand, w...

PURPOSE To examine the effect of the posterior location of the dilator on iris anterior curvature during dilation. METHODS An in vivo human study, an ex vivo porcine experiment, and an in silico computational model were performed in parallel. Iris anterior curvature was measured in vivo before and after dilation by time-domain slit lamp optical coherence tomography (SL-OCT). All patients (n =...

introduction: preserving the apical root structure during cleaning and shaping of the canal has always been a challenge in endodontics particularly when the root canals are curved. the purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the apical transportation induced by the reciproc and biorace rotary systems in preparing the mesiobuccal root canal of the human maxillary molars. materials and meth...

i ntroduction: the purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the canal transportation and centering ability of twisted file (tf) to that of reciproc system. methods and materials: forty noncalcified roots with mature apices, minimum length of 19 mm and an apical curvature of 15-30 degrees (according to schneider’s method), from freshly extracted mandibular and maxillary teeth, were selected...

Abstract A recent article [1] considered the so-called ‘ideal curve flow’, a sixth-order curvature flow that seeks to deform closed planar curves with least variation of total geodesic in L2 sense. It was critical analysis there length bound on evolving curves. is natural suspect therefore length-constrained ideal should permit more straightforward analysis, at case small initial ‘energy’. In t...

Let Mn be a Riemannian n-manifold. Denote by S(p) and Ric(p) the Ricci tensor and the maximum Ricci curvature on Mn, respectively. In this paper we prove that every C-totally real submanifolds of a Sasakian space form M̄2m+1(c) satisfies S ≤ ( (n−1)(c+3) 4 + n 2 4 H2)g, where H2 and g are the square mean curvature function and metric tensor on Mn, respectively. The equality holds identically if ...