Our extensive measurements of damage thresholds for fused silica and several fluorides (LiF, CaF, MgF and BaF) at 1053 and 526 nm for pulse durations, 2, ranging from 275 fs to 1 ns are reported elsewhere at this meeting. A theoretical model based on electron production via multiphoton ionization, Joule heating, and collisional (avalanche) ionization is in good agreement with experimental results.

Myostatin inhibits myoblast proliferation and differentiation in developing muscle. Mounting evidence suggests that myostatin also plays a limiting role in growth/repair/regeneration of differentiated adult muscle by inhibiting satellite cell activation. We tested the hypothesis that myostatin mRNA expression would decrease after resistance loading (RL) with a blunted response in older (O) fema...

Performance analysis of the p-norm detector to date has been limited to ad hoc approximations, non-fading channels and Rayleigh fading. To overcome these limitations, we develop several analytical/numerical solutions for the detection probability Pd and the false alarm probability Pf , which are necessary to specify the receiver operating characteristic curves of the p-norm detector. First, for...

We numerically investigate mid-infrared supercontinuum (SC) generation in dispersion-engineered, air-clad, Ge(11.5)As(24)Se(64.5) chalcogenide-glass channel waveguides employing two different materials, Ge(11.5)As(24)Se(64.5) or MgF(2) glass for their lower cladding. We study the effect of waveguide parameters on the bandwidth of the SC at the output of 1-cm-long waveguide. Our results show tha...

We propose a new phenomenological law for the shape of the spectral lines in the infrared, which accounts for the exponential decay of the extinction coefficient in the high-frequency region, observed in many spectra. We apply this law to the measured infrared spectra of LiF, NaCl, and MgF2, finding good agreement over a wide range of frequencies.

In this paper, the performance of Fe-based redox flow batteries (IRFBs) was dramatically improved by coating N-doped carbon spheres (NDCS) on graphite felt electrodes. NDCS synthesized single-step hydrothermal method using dextrose and ammonia as a precursor coated over electrodes electrostatic spraying. The weight required for modification electrode to achieve effective battery studied electro...

OBJECTIVES In coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), graft flow distal to a mild stenosis can compete with relatively preserved native flow through the stenosis and the competition can result in graft stenosis. In chronic total occlusion (CTO), coronary collateral circulation, which is essential to maintain myocardial viability distal to CTO, varies in extent among patients and the extent can ...

Abstrad Treatment of HC1 1 mouse mammary epithelial cells with the lactogenic hormones dexamethasone, insulin, and proladin (DIP) leads to cellular differentiation and production of the milk protein 13-casein. The following experimental evidence suggests the involvement of protein kinase C (PKC) in DIP induced signal transdudion. Down-regulation of PKC by 1 2-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-1 3-acetate ...

To address spectrum scarcity in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications, nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) aided multi-UAV communications full-duplex (FD) heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are investigated this article. Specifically, an ergodic capacity analysis of NOMA-aided FD-HetNets is conducted through a moment generating function (MGF) approach within stochastic geometry framework....

A nonlinear and nonadditive composition-dependent change of the ionic conductivity in mixed glass-former (MGF) glasses when one glass former, such as PS(5/2), is replaced by a second glass former, such as GeS2, at constant alkali modifier concentrations, such as Na2S, is known as the mixed glass-former effect (MGFE). Alkali ion conducting glasses are of particular interest for use as solid elec...