We report that the classical phenomenon of optical activity, which is traditionally associated with chirality (helicity) of organic molecules, proteins, and inorganic structures, can be observed in artificial planar media which exhibit neither 3D nor 2D chirality. We observe the effect in the microwave and optical parts of the spectrum at oblique incidence to regular arrays of nonchiral subwave...

The exact optical activity of cysteine has been a matter of doubt. Baumann (1) reported that [aID = -12.6” for the hydrochloride and -8.8” for the free ampholyte. Morner (2), on the other hand, stated that while some preparations of cysteine showed values similar to those of Baumann, other preparations were inactive or weakly dextrorotatory. Apparently no other investigator has reported dextror...

Undoped and Mn-doped ZnO nanoparticles were successfully prepared by the hydrothermal method with different annealing temperature conditions. Structural, chemical and optical properties of the samples were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Field Emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), UV-Vis spectrophotometry and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The phase purity was con...

This paper presents an original approach for recognizing human activities in video sequences. A human activity is seen as a temporal sequence of elementary action probabilities. Actions are first generically learned using a robust action recognition method based on optical flow estimation and a cross-dataset training process. Activities are then projected as trajectories on the semantic simplex...

background and objective: changes of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase are involved in pathogenesis of different nervous disorders including alzheimer’s disease. this research work was conducted to evaluate the inhibitory effect of pistacia lentiscus ethanolic extract on acetylcholinesterase activity. materials and methods: activity of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (ache) was measured by ellman...

introduction: this study seeks to discuss the light wave transport characteristics variation along the pericardium meridian under different pressures. methods: we selected 36 healthy students at the school for this study, tied up the desktop blood pressure cuff onto subjects’right proximal arms, fixed the detection probe immovably on the neiguan (pc6) acupoint and the reference point which was ...

The optical and magneto-optical activities of yttrium iron garnet are shown to depend on the sintering stage. Low density yttrium iron garnet presents a lower optical activity than the high density garnet. The magneto-optical activity decreases at energies in which the optical transitions are associated to crystal field, indicating a relationship between the optical activity and the distortion ...