The growing applications of nanoparticles in energy and healthcare demand new metrology techniques with improved sensitivity, lower sample concentration, and affordable instrument cost. Here we demonstrate the first air-mode photonic crystal nanobeam cavity with ultrahigh Qfactor (Q = 2.5 × 10) and ultrasmall mode volume (V = 0.01λ) at telecom wavelength. The air-mode cavity has strong field lo...

Synbranchus marmoratus is a facultative air-breathing fish, which uses its buccal cavity as well as its gills for air-breathing. S. marmoratus shows a very pronounced tachycardia when it surfaces to air-breathe. An elevation of heart rate decreases cardiac filling time and therefore may cause a decline in stroke volume (V(S)), but this can be compensated for by an increase in venous tone to mai...

This paper develops a Q-learning approach to Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) navigation, or path planning, for sensing applications in which an infrared (IR) sensor or camera is installed onboard the UAV for the purpose of detecting and classifying multiple, stationary ground targets. The problem can be considered as a geometric sensor-path planning problem, because the geometry and position of the ...

Haney-type surface thermal boundary conditions linearly connect net downward surface heat flux Q to air– sea temperature difference (gradient-type condition) DT1 or to climate/synoptic sea temperature difference (restoring-type condition) DT2 by a coupling coefficient k. In this study, the authors used the global reanalyzed data (6-h resolution) of Q, surface air temperature TA, and sea surface...

This paper develops a novel Q-learning approach to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, or path planning, for sensing applications in which an infrared (IR) sensor or camera is installed onboard the UAV for the purpose of detecting and classifying multiple, stationary ground targets. The main advantage of this approach over existing path planning techniques is that the optimal guidance pol...

The aim of the psychoacoustic study presented here was to characterize listeners’ preferences for a set of sounds produced by different brands and models of indoor air-conditioning units. In addition, some synthetic sounds, created by interpolation between recorded sound samples, were integrated into the set. The multidimensional perceptual space and the corresponding physical space representat...

Films of AOT-capped (AOT = dioctyl sulfosuccinate) cadmium sulfide nanoparticles (Q-CdS) prepared by incorporation into a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of hexanethiol on Au were prepared. These were imaged at negative substrate bias in air by scanning tunneling microscopy, and Q-CdS particles were shown to cover most of the area on the S A M . Continuous scanning of the tip over the substrate ...