After the prediction that strong enough optical activity may result in negative refraction and negative reflection, more and more artificial chiral metamaterials were designed and fabricated at difference frequency ranges from microwaves to optical waves. Therefore, a simple and robust method to retrieve the effective constitutive parameters for chiral metamaterials is urgently needed. Here, we...

Two-stcp polymerase ehain reaction (nested PCR) method was examined for the diagnosis of scrub typhus, Primers were derived from the type-spccific antigen (TSA) gene DNA sequences of Rickettsia tsutsugamptshi, GiLliam strain, These primers seryed to produce rickettsia-specific products in the amplification of template DNA prepared from all serovariants, G{11iam, Karp, Kato, Kawasaki, KLtroki an...

S April 24, 2010 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 8:30 a.m. REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 9:00 a.m. MORNING PRESENTATIONS: Composers, Styles, and Contexts Aaron Grant Pennsylvania State University Duality in Igor Stravinsky’s Compositional Process as Seen in The Nightingale (1908-1914) Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Nightingale (1908-1914), based on a fairy tale by the Danish author H...

We perform second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy with circularly polarized (CP) light to measure chirality of individual twistedcross gold nanodimers. The chiral signatures, based on different SHG response for the two CP components of incident light, are clearly visible even with off-resonance excitation. The SHG responses of individual nanodimers are found to vary by about a factor of fi...

—The process of evolution hinders our ability to make large-scale ecological comparisons—such as those encompassing marine biotas spanning the Phanerozoic—because the compared entities are taxonomically and morphologically dissimilar. One solution is to focus instead on life habits, which are repeatedly discovered by taxa because of convergence. Such an approach is applied to a comparison of th...

The Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons has a long history with seminal contributions from Leonid V. Keldysh. Despite numerous efforts, however, a compelling experimental evidence is still missing. A brief survey of attempts to realize exciton condensation in different semiconductor systems is given. Specific problems compared with atomic Bose condensation are highlighted. More details are g...