A region 140 square degrees toward the Galactic Centre was searched for monochromatic optical light, both pulses shorter than 1 sec and continuous emission. novel instrument constructed that acquires spectra of every point within 6 second, able to distinguish lasers from astrophysical sources. The system consists a modified Schmidt telescope, wedge prism over 0.28-meter aperture, fast CMOS came...

Broadcast and broadband communications have undoubt- edly become a part of today’s social life. Accessibility of content of interest to the audience at any place and at any time regardless of the type of content consumer device can have an effective contribution to the desire of the audience to use of the broadcast content. The HD and Ultra HD qualities, the desire for demand-driven application...

Broadcast and broadband communications have undoubt- edly become a part of today’s social life. Accessibility of content of interest to the audience at any place and at any time regardless of the type of content consumer device can have an effective contribution to the desire of the audience to use of the broadcast content. The HD and Ultra HD qualities, the desire for demand-driven application...

Canada may be about to create a publicly-funded Centre for Advancing Democracy. However, at the present time there is international speculation that autocracy promotion is increasing, now that the global wave of democratisation has stalled or gone into retreat. Some prominent authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes have gained in confidence; their potential to influence politics in other c...

Rapid effects of light on wheat seedling extension growth were monitored by sensitive transducer techniques. Seedlings grown in complete darkness responded to light by a marked deceleration of extension growth after a mean latent period of 10.4 minutes. Pulses (5 minutes) of red (660 nanometers), green (530 nanometers), and far-red (730 nanometers) light caused marked extension rate depression,...

Results of broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast), in situ as the function of pressure are presented. They show a clear evidence of a threshold to the new pattern of the pressure evolution of the static dielectric permittivity and DC electric conductivity already for Pt  ≈ 200MPa at T = 5 oC and Pt  ≈ 300MPa at T = 25 oC. BDS monitoring versus pressu...

The interfering effect of ultraviolet (UV) radiation on the natural function of biological processes is wavelength specific and the UV spectrum must be weighted with the action spectrum for the process. The UV spectral irradiance may be measured with calibrated spectroradiometers. Alternatively, the biologically effective UV may be measured with broadband devices. This paper reviews the techniq...

in the form of passive seismic methods, broadband seismometers have been used in hydrocarbon exploration. the frequency bandwidth typically studied is in the range of 1–6 hz. the observations on low frequency band of microtremors are used to calculate the spectral ratio of vertical and horizontal components (v/h) and power spectral density (psd). attributes based on the v/h ratio and the psd ha...

In this work, a new design of ultraflat dispersion PCF based on square-lattice geometry with all uniform air holes towards broadband smooth SCG around the C-band of wavelength has been presented. The air hole of the inner ring was infiltrated with liquid of certain refractive indices. Numerical investigations establish a near zero ultraflattened dispersion of 0 ± 0.78 ps/nm/km in a wavelength r...