A robust wide band (850 nm) fiber coupler to a whispering-gallery cavity with ultra-high quality factor is experimentally demonstrated. The device trades off ideality for broad-band, efficient input coupling. Output coupling efficiency can remain high enough for practical applications wherein pumping and power extraction must occur over very broad wavelength spans.

BACKGROUND The role of estrogens in male physiology has become evident. However, clinically useful normative data for estradiol secretion in boys has not previously been established due to the insensitivity of current methods used in clinical routine. By use of a validated ultra-sensitive extraction RIA, our aim was to establish normative data from a group consisting of healthy boys in prepuber...

Thallium is widely found in nature, but the only inorganic stones full of this element are crookesite and lorandit. It isalso found in pyrites of copper, lead and inorganic stones. The element and its compositions are toxic and harmful to theenvironment; therefore, its application requires caution and further research. It is important to develop sensitive andaccurate analytical methods to deter...

2-(3- indolyl) – 4,5 di phynyl imidazole.(IDPI) was used as a complexing agent in cloud point extraction for the first time and applied for selective pre-concentration of trace amounts of cadmium. The method is based on the extraction of cadmium at pH= 7.0 by using non-ionic surfactant Triton-X114 and 2-(3- indolyl) – 4,5 di phynyl imidazole. (IDPI) as a chelating agent. The adopted concentrati...

An ultra-performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-qTOF-MS/MS) method was developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetic acid. These analytes were separated on a reverse phase C18 column using a mobile phase of acetonitrile:2% acetic acid in water (75:25, v/v) with a flow rate of 200 μL/min. The qTOF-MS was o...

This paper introduces a parallelization of fuzzy logicbased image processing using Graphics Processor Units (GPUs). Using an NVIDIA 8800 Ultra, a 126 time speed improvement can be made to fuzzy edge extraction making its processing real-time. The GPU can process approximately 42 frames per second at 640x480 image resolution, thus 307,200 inference processes per frame. With a computational speed...

A novel stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) procedure termed sequential SBSE was developed. Compared to conventional SBSE, sequential SBSE provides more uniform enrichment over the entire polarity/volatility range for organic pollutants at ultra-trace levels in water. Sequential SBSE consists of a SBSE performed sequentially on a 5-mL sample fi rst without modifi er using one stir bar, then on ...

A simple method to extract DNA from hair shafts was developed by using enzymatic laundry powder at the first step of the process. The whole extraction can be finished in less than 2 hours. The simple extraction reagent proposed here contains only two cheap components: ordinary enzymatic laundry powder and PCR buffer. After extraction, an ultra sensitive fluorescent nucleic acid stain, PicoGreen...

Graphene oxide nanoplatelets (GONPs) with extremely sharp edges (lateral dimensions ∼ 20-200 nm and thicknesses <2 nm) were applied in extraction of the overexpressed guanine synthesized in the cytoplasm of leukemia cells. The blood serums containing the extracted guanine were used in differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) with reduced graphene oxide nanowall (rGONW) electrodes to develop fast an...

This paper presents results from double directional channel measurements in a typical home environment with ultra wideband signal. 100 ray paths were extracted using the SAGE algorithm at the both sides of radio link and they are regarded as dominant propagation phenomena. Then the paths were identified to the real environment, in which clusterization analyses were examined. For the residual co...