Summary Iron is essential for most living organisms. In addition, its biogeochemical cycling influences important processes in the geosphere (e.g., the mobilization or immobilization of trace elements and contaminants). The reduction of Fe(III) to Fe(II) can be catalyse...

The spectrum of deployed wireless cellular communication systems is found to be underutilized, even though licensed spectrum is at a premium. To efficiently utilize the bandwidth left unused in a cellular system, the primary system (PRI), we propose an overlaid ad hoc s...

We analyze the constraints governing absorption and scattering of arbitrary sensors or receiving antennas. Our findings bring forward interesting physical limitations on the amount of accessible absorption in a low-scattering sensor and suggest practical ways to achieve...

We study the fraction of tidal interactions and mergers with well identified observability timescales ($f_{\rm TIM}$) in group, cluster, and accompanying field galaxies and its dependence on redshift ($z$), cluster velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) and environment analyzin...

We have investigated the thermal stability of the heteroleptic ruthenium complex C106 employed as a sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells. The C106 was adsorbed on TiO2 particles and exposed to 2 different iodide/triidode based redox electrolytes A and B at 80 degree...

From a study of the line shape of the X(3872), the LHCb collaboration measures a sizeable negative effective range. This cannot be reconciled with a shallow D (D) over bar* bound state hypothesis. Based on Weinberg's compositeness criterion, together with a theorem by S...

With the emergence of new generations of multicore architectures, the need for efficient multimedia algorithm implementations has become critical. This paper describes a new methodology for efficient implementations of algorithms targeting reconfigurable architectures. ...

GaN(0001) thick layers were grown on c-plane sapphire substrates by molecular-beam epitaxy using NH3. The evaporation of such GaN layers in vacuum was studied as a function of substrate temperature. In situ laser reflectivity was used to quantitatively measure the decom...