a survey was conducted of physicians in practice, to determine the criteria that would lead the study of a particular condition to be an important component of clerkship training in internal medicine. four such criteria were suggested: the prevalence of the condition in practice, the urgency with which it requires attention, the severity in terms of morbidity and mortality and the cost effectiv...

We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics--parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic optics. We illustrate the developed formalism on the examples of plasmonic refractor and plasmonic crystal, and discuss limitations of the developed technique an...

It is well known that for any sort of evolutionary search we must represent the problem solution in a suitable manner since the choice of representation has a large impact on the type and efficiency of the evolutionary search procedure applied. Usually in evolutionary design applications either bit strings or real number parameters are used to encode the problem. However, during the initial des...