A grating compressor is characterized using the dispersion scan technique and a reference piece of glass. The procedure yields both the spectral phase of the ultrashort pulses and the dispersion of the compressor itself.

The harm that pathogens cause to hosts during infection, termed virulence, varies across species from negligible to a high likelihood of rapid death. Classic theory for the evolution of virulence is based on a trade-off between pathogen growth, transmission and host survival, which predicts that higher within-host growth causes increased transmission and higher virulence. However, using data from

A general scaling formalism for nonlinear light-matter interactions in gases is presented and experimentally verified. The formalism enables to conveniently extrapolate nonlinear phenomena, such as filamentation or high-order harmonic generation, to new laser parameters.

We present the development of an instantaneous multispectral imaging technique exploiting spatially modulated light. Each encoded excitation source produces an image with a predefined position in the Fourier domain, allowing them to be separated computationally.

Purpose: The vast majority of previous studies suggest that there is no relationship between the acceptable noise level (ANL) and pure-tone hearing thresholds reported as the average pure-tone hearing thresholds (pure-tone average). This study aims to explore (a) the relationship between hearing thresholds at individual frequencies and the ANL and (b) a measure of the slope of the audiogram and AN

Designing highly integrated and efficient MIMO antennas for mobile handset is challenging, especially for low frequency bands below 1 GHz. In this work, by analyzing and manipulating the characteristic modes of a mobile handset, we propose a low profile dual-band MIMO antenna with high integration ability. Both antennas cover a bandwidth of 100 MHz at the center frequency of 0.9 GHz. The isolation

Large areas of peatlands have worldwide been drained to facilitate agriculture, which has adverse effects on the environment and the global climate. Agriculture on rewetted peatlands (paludiculture) provides a sustainable alternative to drainage-based agriculture. One form of paludiculture is the cultivation of Sphagnum moss, which can be used as a raw material for horticultural growing media. Und

Inputs of salt spray to the blanket bogs, due to their proximity to the coast and the predominant westerly winds from the Atlantic Ocean. To test this hypothesis we carried out an ecohydrological field study at a large blanket bog in the western part of Connemara, Ireland. We described peat profiles in two transects and sampled pore water from peat at different depths. The water samples were analy

Anthropologists have generally found it reasonable to understand the Industrial Revolution in Britain as a product of global historical processes including colonialism and the structure of world trade. The extent to which the industrialization of British textile production was contingent on global processes has been illuminated in detail by historians such as Joseph Inikori. Andre Gunder Frank pro