QED calculations of heavy two-electron ions and their applications to a feasible PNC experiment are discussed. Recent progress on calculations of the PNC effects in neutral alkali-metal atoms is also reported. Heliumlike ions, being the simplest many-electron systems, serve as an important testing ground for investigations of few-electron QED effects in strong fields. In Ref. [1], all second-or...

It is shown that an alternative form of the parity-nonconserving (PNC) transition electromagnetic current resolves partly a puzzle with the Hara theorem. New formulation of it has allowed PNC weak radiative hyperon transitions of the charged hyperons Σ+ ⇒ p + γ and Ξ ⇒ Σ + γ revealing hitherto unseen transition toroid dipole moment.

The current theoretical analyses of the parity nonconserving (PNC) experiments in light nuclei fail to provide a consistent description of the experimental data for ' F, ' F, and 'Ne. We perform a "piecewise" analysis of the PNC matrix elements in the Op&/2-Od5/2-1sl/2 model space and show that by using a proper overall normalization of the isoscalar and isovector parts we can consistently desc...

We examine the feasibility of a parity nonconserving (PNC) optical rotation experiment for the P3/2 → P1/2 transition of atomic iodine at 1315 nm. The calculated E1PNC to M1 amplitude ratio is R = 0.80(16) × 10−8. We show that very large PNC rotations (greater than 10 μrad) are obtained for iodine-atom column densities of ∼1022 cm−2, which can be produced by increasing the effective interaction...

Recently, smartphones have been used as remote controllers for home appliances through connectivity of mobile telecom network or Wi-Fi. To control several home appliances in a room, a mechanism is required for a smartphone to correctly select the target appliance. Through the built-in electronic compass function in the smartphone, we propose a scheme called Point-and-Control (PnC) that allows a...

There is still a lack of effective vaccination strategies for patients with a deficient antibody response to bacterial polysaccharide antigens. In an open trial, we evaluated the immunogenicity and tolerance of a new 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in 22 infection-prone nonresponders to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine and 21 controls. In the patient group, nonresponsiveness was conf...

The use of intelligent nanocomposites in sensing and actuation applications has become quite common over the past decade. In this article, electro-thermo-mechanical nonlinear dynamic buckling of an orthotropic piezoelectric nanocomposite (PNC) cylindrical shell conveying viscous fluid is investigated. The composite cylindrical shell is made from Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) and reinforced by ...

The denoise-and-forward (DNF) method of physical-layer network coding (PNC) is a promising approach for wireless relaying networks. Most related work in the literature focuses on low-level modulations, such as binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) or quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK). In this paper, we consider DNF-based PNC with high-level modulations, specifically the M-ary quadrature amplitude...

The primary antigen-specific antibody response of various strains of mice to TEPC-15/PnC immune complexes has been examined. We found that both BALB/c and C3H mice were good responders to the PnC antigen; however, C3H mice were low responders, whereas BALB/c mice were high responders to the TEPC-15/PnC complexes. Using congenic strains on the C3H and BALB/c background, we have shown that the re...