The characteristics of a two-dimensional (2D) left-handed traveling-wave field-effect transistor, which is two 2D composite rightand left-handed (CRLH) transmission lines with both passive and active couplings, are discussed for generating non-attenuated waves having left-handedness in 2D. In this study, the design criteria for wave amplification are described, and the results from numerical ca...

Abstract Previous research suggests that the right hemisphere (RH) may contribute uniquely to the processing of metaphoric language. However, causal relationships between local brain activity in the RH and metaphors comprehension were never established. In addition, most studies have focused on familiar metaphoric expressions which might be processed similarly to any conventional word combinati...

Incorporation of active devices/media such as transistors for microwave and gain media for optics may be very attractive for enabling desired low loss and broadband metamaterials. Such metamaterials can even have gain which may very well lead to new and exciting physical phenomena. We investigate microwave composite right/left-handed transmission lines (CRLH-TL) incorporating ideal gain devices...

Nanoporous polymeric transmission gratings are demonstrated to be an excellent platform for high-speed optical humidity sensing. The grating structures were fabricated with a modified holographic, polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (H-PDLC) system. The sensing mechanism was based on changes in the relative transmission associated with the adsorption and desorption of water vapour by nanopores. Th...

In a class of gauged $U(1)$ extended Standard Models (SMs), the breaking symmetry is not only source for Majorana masses right-handed (RH) neutrinos crucial seesaw mechanism, but also stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. Such models are well-motivated from viewpoint grand unification. this paper, we discuss successful ultraviolet completion SM by an $SO(10)$ unified model through inte...

There is mounting evidence that the aerosol transmission route plays a significant role in the spread of influenza in temperate regions and that the efficiency of this route depends on humidity. Nevertheless, the precise mechanisms by which humidity might influence transmissibility via the aerosol route have not been elucidated. We hypothesize that airborne concentrations of infectious influenz...

The smallness of the neutrino masses may be related to inflation. The minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with small neutrino Yukawa couplings already has all the necessary ingredients for a successful inflation. In this model the inflaton is a gauge-invariant combination of the right-handed sneutrino, the slepton, and the Higgs field, which generate a flat direction suitable for infla...

Humidity has been associated with influenza's seasonality, but the mechanisms underlying the relationship remain unclear. There is no consistent explanation for influenza's transmission patterns that applies to both temperate and tropical regions. This study aimed to determine the relationship between ambient humidity and viability of the influenza A virus (IAV) during transmission between host...