[This retracts the article on p. 352 in vol. 28, PMID: 27274634.].

To advance earthquake research, a unique LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) survey was conducted to map an approximately 1,000 km segment of the San Andreas Fault in southern California in the spring of 2005. The objective was to produce a surface model along the fault line at extremely high accuracy and consequently, extraordinary care was devoted to all the system components and the mission ...

We fabricated a series of glasses with the composition 94.7GeO2-5Al2O3-0.3Bi2O3PbO =0–24 mol. % . Characteristic absorption bands of bismuth centered at 500, 700, 800, and 1000 nm were observed. Adding PbO was found to decrease the strength of bismuth absorption. The addition of 3%–4% PbO resulted in a 50% increase in lifetime, a 20-fold increase in quantum efficiency, and a 28-fold increase in...

The perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 was prepared on a mesoscopic TiO2 film, starting from electrodepositing PbO, to iodination to PbI2, and then interdiffusion reaction with CH3NH3I. The as-prepared film was used as a light absorber for the perovskite solar cells, exhibiting a high PCE of 12.5% under standard AM 1.5 conditions.

The knowledge-based view (KBV) of firms has received increasingly attention. A relatively unexplored area is knowledge transfer in project-based organizations (PBOs). The PBO relies upon combining expertise from several internal and external parties in order to deliver their own capabilities in a one-off process. Knowledge over projects is difficult to transfer due to the unique character of pr...

Contamination of shooting range soils from the use of Pb bullets is under increasing scrutiny. Past research on Pb contamination of shooting ranges has focused on weathering reactions of Pb bullets in soil. The objective of this study was to determine the significance of abrasion of Pb bullets in contributing to soil Pb contamination. This was accomplished by firing a known mass of bullets into...

In normotensive rabbits topical application of Daucus carota seed extract at the concentration of 0.3, 0.6 and 1.2% resulted in mean IOP reduction of 19.33. 23.20 and 25.61% respectively from baseline. As no significant difference was observed between the change in IOP in 0.6 and 1.2% extract treated groups, 0.6% concentration was chosen for further evaluation in rabbits with experimentally ele...

The detailed comparative analysis of luminescent and scintillation properties of the single crystalline films (SCF) of YAG:Ce garnet grown from melt-solutions based on the traditional PbO-based and novel BaO-based fluxes, and of a YAG:Ce bulk single crystal grown from the melt by the Czochralski method, was performed in this work. Using the Am (a-particle, 5.49 MeV) excitation we show that scin...