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A Fiber Optic Probe for the Detection of Cataracts
A compact fiber optic probe developed for on-orbit science experiments was used to detect the onset of cataracts, a capability that could eliminate physicians' guesswork and result in new drugs to 'dissolve' or slow down the cataract formation before surgery is necessary. The probe is based upon dynamic light scattering (DLS) principles. It has no moving parts, no apertures, and requires no optical alignment. It is flexible and easy to use. Results are presented for excised but intact human eye lenses. In a clinical setting, the device can be easily incorporated into a slit-lamp apparatus (ophthalmoscope) for complete eye diagnostics. In this set-up, the integrated fiber optic probe, the size of a pencil, delivers a low power cone of laser light into the eye of a patient and guides the light which is backscattered by the protein molecules of the lens through a receiving optical fiber to a photo detector. The non-invasive DLS measurements provide rapid determination of protein crystalline size and its size distribution in the eye lens
Solution of Linear Programming Problems using a Neural Network with Non-Linear Feedback
This paper presents a recurrent neural circuit for solving linear programming problems. The objective is to minimize a linear cost function subject to linear constraints. The proposed circuit employs non-linear feedback, in the form of unipolar comparators, to introduce transcendental terms in the energy function ensuring fast convergence to the solution. The proof of validity of the energy function is also provided. The hardware complexity of the proposed circuit compares favorably with other proposed circuits for the same task. PSPICE simulation results are presented for a chosen optimization problem and are found to agree with the algebraic solution. Hardware test results for a 2–variable problem further serve to strengthen the proposed theory
Microlens Parallax Asymmetries Toward the LMC
If the microlensing events now being detected toward the Large Magellanic
Cloud (LMC) are due to lenses in the Milky Way halo, then the events should
typically have asymmetries of order 1% due to parallax from the reflex motion
of the Earth. By contrast, if the lenses are in the LMC, the parallax effects
should be negligible. A ground-based search for such parallax asymmetries would
therefore clarify the location of the lenses. A modest effort (2 hours per
night on a 1 m telescope) could measure 15 parallax asymmetries over 5 years
and so marginally discriminate between the halo and the LMC as the source of
the lenses. A dedicated 1 m telescope would approximately double the number of
measurements and would therefore clearly distinguish between the alternatives.
However, compared to satellite parallaxes, the information extracted from
ground-based parallaxes is substantially less useful for understanding the
nature of the halo lenses (if that is what they are). The backgrounds of
asymmetries due to binary-source and binary-lens events are estimated to be
approximately 7% and 12% respectively. These complicate the interpretation of
detected parallax asymmetries, but not critically.Comment: Submitted to ApJ, 17 pages, including 2 embedded figure
MHAV: multitier heterogeneous adaptive vehicular network with LTE and DSRC
Enabling cooperation between vehicles form vehicular networks, which provide safety, traffic efficiency and infotainment. The most vital of these applications require reliability and low latency. Considering these requirements, this paper presents a multitier heterogeneous adaptive vehicular (MHAV) network. Comprising of transport operator or authority owned vehicles in high tier and all the other privately owned vehicles in low tier, integrating cellular network with dedicated short range communications. The proposed framework is implemented and evaluated in Glasgow city center model. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed architecture outperforms previous multitier architectures in terms of latency while offloading traffic from cellular networks
Search for hidden turbulent gas through interstellar scintillation
Stars twinkle because their light propagates through the atmosphere. The same
phenomenon is expected when the light of remote stars crosses a Galactic - disk
or halo - refractive medium such as a molecular cloud. We present the promising
results of a test performed with the ESO-NTT and the perspectives of detection.Comment: Structure and dynamics of disk galaxies, Petit Jean Mountain : United
States (2013). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1208.637
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