Degree of Polarization (DOP) is an important property of light sources. It directly relates to the accuracy of optical component characterization, the sensitivity of sensor systems, and the quality of optical signals in optical communication systems. Therefore, the accurate and fast characterization of DOP is increasingly important. This article first reviews the fundamentals of DOP and summari...

The Effect of hydroxy isothiocyanates on a bacterial virus and M13 DNA was examined. Hydroxy-substituted phenyl and phenyl alkyl isothiocyanates, especially 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethyl isothiocyanate(IT-Dop) synthesized from dopamine, showed antiviral activity on psiK. In transfection experiments with M13 mp DNA species, IT-Dop inhibited the single-stranded (SS) molecule more effectively than ...

Despite its state-of-the-art performance, the Data Oriented Parsing (DOP) model has been shown to suffer from biased parameter estimation, and the good performance seems more the result of ad hoc adjustments than correct probabilistic generalization over the data. In recent work, we developed a new estimation procedure, called Backoff Estimation, for DOP models that are based on Phrase-Structur...

We show how disordered media allow to increase the local degree of polarization (DOP) of an arbitrary (partial) polarized incident beam. The role of cross-scattering coefficients is emphasized, together with the probability density functions (PDF) of the scattering DOP. The average DOP of scattering is calculated versus the incident illumination DOP.

An approach to find the global optimal solution of the dilution of precision (DOP) problem is presented. The DOP optimization problem considered assumes an environment comprising multiple randomly pre-deployed sensors (or navigation sources) and an additional sensor is to be introduced at the location that minimizes variations of the DOP problem (e.g., weighted geometric DOP (WGDOP), horizontal...

Dopaminergic inputs are sensed on the cell surface by the seven-transmembrane dopamine receptors that belong to a superfamily of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Dopamine receptors are classified as D1-like or D2-like receptors based on their homology and pharmacological profiles. In addition to well established G-protein coupled mechanism of dopamine receptors in mammalian system they can ...

lor, 1989; Wada, 1989). However, little is known about the adsorption characteristics of DOP. Only one study Leaching of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and associated nutrihas examined adsorption isotherms of DOP in natural ents can be a significant loss from developing ecosystems. We studied DOM for soils. Kaiser (2001) compared the adsorption how the adsorption of dissolved organic P (DOP) an...

Dendrobium officinale extract shows potent anti-fatigue effects; however, the active substance responsible for these effects remains undetermined. A glucomannan with a huge molecular size of 730 kDa, called DOP, was identified as the unique authentication marker of this expensive herb. DOP exhibited immunomodulating effects on macrophages and lymphocytes in our previous study. Clinical reports ...

1. A DOP model for phrase-structure trees R. Bod and R. Scha 2. Probability models for DOP R. Bonnema 3. Encoding frequency information in stochastic parsing models 1. Computational complexity of disambiguation under DOP K. Sima'an 2. Parsing DOP with Monte Carlo techniques J. Chappelier and M. Rajman 3. Towards efficient Monte Carlo parsing R. Bonnema 4. Efficient parsing of DOP with PCFG-redu...

A spontaneous neurological mutation, dilute-opisthotonus (dop), was discovered in our breeding colony of Wistar rats. We found that the mutation affected the gene encoding Myosin Va (MyoVA), an actin-based molecular motor. Analysis of the myosin Va (Myo5a) gene of the dop genome showed the presence of a complex rearrangement consisting of a 306-bp inversion associated with 217-bp and 17-bp dele...