We demonstrated a tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG)-based modulated amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source, followed by the broadband, continuous-wave (CW) mid-infrared laser generated intracavity difference-frequency generation (DFG). By flattening spectrum of ASE source during its power amplification and injecting another 1018 nm in optical parametric oscillation(OPO) cavity, nonlinear f...

An innovative laser-vision-based sensing method is proposed to measure weld pool oscillation frequency in pulsed gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW-P). A low-power five-line laser pattern is projected onto the entire weld pool surface as well as its reflection is intercepted by an imaging plane and captured by a high-speed camera. By observing and analyzing the change of the captured laser images d...

Understanding the internal ocean variability and its influence on climate is imperative for society. A key aspect concerns the enigmatic Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), a feature defined by a 60- to 90-year variability in North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures. The nature and origin of the AMO is uncertain, and it remains unknown whether it represents a persistent periodic driver in t...

Atmospheric temperature time series for the nine climate regions of the contiguous U.S. are accurately reproduced by the superposition of oscillatory modes, representing the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), on a monotonic mode representing, at least in part, the effect of radiant forcing due to increasing atmospheric CO2. The relative importance...

In the present study, we investigated the oscillatory behavior of the auditory thalamic neurons through in vivo intracellular and extracellular recordings in anesthetized guinea pigs. Repeated acoustic stimulus and cortical electrical stimulation were applied to examine their modulatory effects on the thalamic oscillation. The time course of the spike frequency over each trial was obtained by s...

BACKGROUD AND OBJECTIVES The high frequency oral oscillation therapy (HFOO) is carried through a plastic device which promotes the clearance of pulmonary sputum. This possesses a metallic sphere which, oscillates during the expiration, generating oscillatory positive expiratory pressure. The aim of this study was to verify the performance of the national device of HFOO (Shaker, NCS, São Paulo) ...

Sound propagation through a rarefied gas inside a two-dimensional cavity is investigated on the basis of the linearized Boltzmann equation, where one of the cavity walls oscillates harmonically in the direction normal to its own surface and is considered as a sound source. An analytical solution at high oscillation frequencies is obtained and detailed numerical results for a wide range of gas r...

Abstract The use of a liquid level sensor made it possible to measure changes in gas hold-up over time stirred tank during unsteady mixing. These results were subjected Fourier series analysis and model was proposed. It allowed one determine the value hold-up, which can be useful for characterizing mixing as comparison steady characteristic frequency also determined, corresponds about twice osc...

Recent evidences of the impact of persistent modes of regional climate variability, coupled with the intensification of human activities, have led hydrologists to study flood regime without applying the hypothesis of stationarity. In this study, a framework for flood frequency analysis is developed on the basis of a tool that enables us to address the modelling of non-stationary time series, na...

Important information about the state dynamics of the brain during anesthesia is unraveled by Electroencephalogram (EEG) approaches. Patterns that are observed through EEG related to neural circuit mechanism under different molecular targets dependent anesthetics have recently attracted much attention. Propofol, a Gamma-amino butyric acid, is known with evidently increasing alpha oscillation. D...