The National Association of Manufacturers told the Environmental Protection Agency that recently proposed changes to Clean ...

Source Extractor (Bertin & Arnouts 1996) is a widely used command-line program for segmentation and analysis of astronomical images. It reads in FITS format files, performs a configurable series of ...

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, ...

Making connections to the real world while you are teaching, and connecting the classroom experience to pressing and capacious problems and issues relevant to students is a strategy that has long been ...

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This paper presents the design of a high-efficiency spot size converter (SSC) for photonic crystal fiber (PCF) to silicon-based waveguides, utilizing composite optical waveguide structures. The SSC is ...

Coherent superposition of light from subwavelength sources is an attractive prospect for the manipulation of the direction, shape and polarization of optical beams. This phenomenon constitutes the ...

Bilayer graphene has been a subject of intense study in recent years. The interlayer registry between the layers can have dramatic effects on the electronic properties: for example, in the presence of ...

It is with great sadness that the Wilson Center’s Asia Program observes the passing of Dr. Robert A. Scalapino, the noted American scholar of Asian politics. Indo-Pacific Program It is with great ...

If you usually work with non-trivial C sources, you may have wondered which execution path (that is, which sequence of function calls) brought you to a certain point in your program. Also, it would be ...