A European campaign of ground-based radar, lidar and optical measurements was carried out during the winter of 1996/1997 (28 December±2 February) to study lee waves in the northern part of Scandinavia. The participants operated ozone lidars, backscatter lidars and MST radars at ALOMAR/Andoya and Esrange/Kiruna, and an ALIS imaging system in Kiruna. The Andoya site was generally windward of the ...

In this work, we determined thermophysical properties such as electrical conductivity and refractive index for 1-propyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide, [PrMIm]Br in ternary mixtures of [PrMIm]Br + ethylene carbonate + water at T = (298.2, 308.2 and 318.2) K and 0.1MPa. Conductometric measurements were carried out for [PrMIm]Br ionic liquid in ethylene carbonate + water solvent mixture in various c...

PURPOSE To study the relationships between the refractive power of the crystalline lens, overall refractive error of the eye, and degree of nuclear cataract. METHODS All phakic participants of the population-based Central India Eye and Medical Study with an age of 50+ years were included. Calculation of the refractive lens power was based on distance noncycloplegic refractive error, corneal r...

The formation and disappearance of liquid bridges between two surfaces can occur either through equilibrium or nonequilibrium processes. In the first instance, the bridge molecules are in thermodynamic equilibrium with the surrounding vapor medium. In the second, chemical potential gradients result in material transfer; mechanical instabilities, because of van der Waals force jumps on approach ...

The aim of the thesis was to develop methods for assessment of surgically induced astigmatism (SIA) in individual eyes, and in groups of eyes. The thesis is based on 12 peer-reviewed publications, published over a period of 16 years. In these publications older and contemporary literature was reviewed(1). A new method (the polar system) for analysis of SIA was developed. Multivariate statistica...

The potential of sol–gel-based optical sensors is investigated for applications in the aerospace domain. To this aim, a low-cost and non-intrusive sol–gel sensor based on waveguides, arranged as 2D matrix structure, fabricated by UV photolithography delamination damage detection. Two different organic–inorganic sol–gels were selected to fabricate photonic device: TiO2–SiO2 ZrO2–SiO2, acting wav...

More than a century has passed since Allvar Gullstrand proposed his so called “mechanism of intracapsular accommodation” based on the concept that change in lens power during accommodation can be larger if is modeled by two different refractive indexes (cortex and nucleus) it homogenous. Intracapsular original eye model compared with six-surfaces built actual experimental data obtained precise ...

makes it impossible to express the results in a general and informative manner. We felt, therefore, that it was useful to define two index that can be used for the purposes of such analysis. Metho& The axial and toric components of ametropia are such that it can be seen as a point within a threedimensional reference. The distance between the point and the centre of a reference defines the Refra...