Deep-tissue large field of view imaging by Fourier conjugate adaptive optics

Light microscopy enables multifunctional imaging of biological specimens at unprecedented depths and resolutions. However, the performance of all optical methods degrades with the imaging depth due to sample-induced aberrations. Methods of adaptive optics (AO) are aimed at pre-compensation of these distortions but state-of-the-art adaptive optics still provides a limited field of view and imaging depth. Here I propose a new approach to overcome these limitations: Fourier image plane conjugate AO. Two possible experimental designs of the new approach are investigated and an accurate comparison between proposed and previously used methods of AO is presented. We see that Fourier conjugate AO provides a significantly larger field of view, which can only be limited by the angular optical memory effect, as well as it is simpler in practical realization for large imaging depth and allows the optimal use of resolution of spatial light modulator.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF RISK-RATING MODELS AT COMMUNITY BANKS

The study identifies important criteria that should be used by lenders in risk-rating of their farm customers. Comparisons of model results are made to assess how robust model results are over time. Linear and logistic regression is used to determine that the debt-to-asset ratio is a major predictor of repayment ability and the asset turnover rate and family living expenses are strong predictors of farm performance.Financial Economics,

Creation of bielectron of Dirac cone: the tachyon solution in magnetic field

Schr\"odinger equation for pair of two massless Dirac particles when magnetic field is applied in Landau gauge is solved exactly. In this case the separation of center of mass and relative motion is obtained. Landau quantization $\epsilon=\pm\,B\sqrt{l}$ for pair of two Majorana fermions coupled via a Coulomb potential from massless chiral Dirac equation in cylindric coordinate is found. The root ambiguity in energy spectrum leads into Landau quantization for bielectron, when the states in which the one simultaneously exists are allowed. The tachyon solution with imaginary energy in Cooper problem ($\epsilon^{2}<0$) is found. The continuum symmetry of Dirac equation allows perfect pairing between electron Fermi spheres when magnetic field is applied in Landau gauge creating a Cooper pair.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineerin

The Use of Intermittent Normobaric Hypoxia in Children's Neurology (Review)

The present review summarizes the data about the use of intermittent normobaric hypoxia (INH) in the treatment and prevention of both acute and chronic diseases of the nervous system in children. The INH method is used in pregnant women with fetoplacental insufficiency, anemia and for mental disorders correction. The INH efficiency in relation to such pathology as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, enuresis, sleep disturbances, autonomic dysfunction is proved. The age dependence of bioelectric activity of the brain in practically healthy persons (age from 8 to 21 years) on hypoxic factor and the most sensitive period of age from 13 to 16 years is shown. The results the own studies have shown that the children which are born and live in radioactive contaminated areas (RCA), the course of INH sessions led to the restoration of somatovegetative status: activation of higher vegetative centers, optimization of sympathetic and parasympathetic links; positive influence on the activity of the cardiovascular system; ventilatory capacity of lungs; blood parameters

Empirical Assessment of Baseline Conservation Tillage Adoption Rates and Soil Carbon Sequestration in the Upper Mississippi River Basin

The study proposes a methodology for developing a carbon sequestration baseline attributable to the current use of conservation tillage. An integral component of the methodology is the explicit acknowledgment that there is an uncertainty in the baseline because of the uncertainty associated with the use of econometrically estimated models. The results of applying the method to a major crop production area, the Upper Mississippi River Basin in the central United States, are reported for two major crops in the region, corn and soybeans. The approach to estimation of the baseline should be readily transferable to other geographic areas and conservation practices.Environmental Economics and Policy,

N-fold integer programming in cubic time

N-fold integer programming is a fundamental problem with a variety of natural applications in operations research and statistics. Moreover, it is universal and provides a new, variable-dimension, parametrization of all of integer programming. The fastest algorithm for $n$-fold integer programming predating the present article runs in time $O(n^{g(A)}L)$ with $L$ the binary length of the numerical part of the input and $g(A)$ the so-called Graver complexity of the bimatrix $A$ defining the system. In this article we provide a drastic improvement and establish an algorithm which runs in time $O(n^3 L)$ having cubic dependency on $n$ regardless of the bimatrix $A$. Our algorithm can be extended to separable convex piecewise affine objectives as well, and also to systems defined by bimatrices with variable entries. Moreover, it can be used to define a hierarchy of approximations for any integer programming problem