Cutting-edge acousto-optic devices require optically transparent thin films, which possess a high index of refraction and large elasto-optic coefficients. For the wide near-infrared to ultraviolet spectral region, mainstream technology employs lithium niobate crystals, interferes with vital demands global sustainability. Here, we demonstrate unprecedented properties in films sustainable environ...

State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 116, Taiwan, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Mus ee 10, CH 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland, Swiss Insti...

NURS:1700 Global Health Nursing 3 s.h. Complexity of health and nursing in a global context; overview of the biological, social, epigenetic, and environmental contributors to health and diseases in populations around the world and nursing's role in improving health; includes case studies of various global organizational and educational structures and systems relative to population health, selec...

Bernardino Ramazzini was a renowned physician and a prolific writer, born in Capri in 1633. He is considered the father of occupational medicine for having written the first paper on workers' diseases (De morbis artificum diatriba). His Treaty on Workers' diseases included 53 different professions, one particular and specific method of analysis, and a methodological proposal to prevent these di...

The transportation sector experienced dramatic changes during the last 300 years. This essay reviews the major technological and infrastructural developments including the transition from roads to railways to automobiles, the rise of steamships, and the emergence of air-travel. Changes in the transport market are also examined, including trends in prices, consumption, and regulation. The role o...

power. The strength of this book lies in the care with which the definition of colonial medicine is made to interact with the shifting ideologies underpinning the British presence in the Sudan. Colonial encounters are described in a language of accommodated power always modified by the responses and/or collusion of the colonized. In the case of the sleeping sickness camps, authority relied upon...

The period 1700 to 1900 saw the beginnings, and the development, of the British Empire in India. Empire was not planned, at least not in the early stages. In a sense, it just happened. The first British in India came for trade, not territory; they were businessmen, not conquerors. It can be argued that they came from a culture that was inferior, and a political entity that was weaker, than that...