An overview on high-resolution and fast interrogation of optical-fiber sensors relying on laser reflection spectroscopy is given.Fiber Bragg-gratings (FBGs) and FBG resonators built in fibers of different types Moisture Essence are used for strain, temperature and acceleration measurements using heterodyne-detection and optical frequency-locking te

Background.Gastric volvulus refers to a torsion of all or part of the stomach that may cause an obstruction of the foregut.The clinical symptoms of gastric volvulus range from asymptomatic to life-threatening and thus must be rapidly diagnosed.However, the presenting symptoms of gastric volvulus vary widely, which may cause diagnosis to be delayed

Suspended particles play a significant role in aquatic systems.However, existing methods to probe suspended particles have several limitations.In this paper, we present a portable prototype to in situ probe individual Dog-Supplemental Feeding particles in aquatic suspensions by simultaneously measuring polarized light scattering and fluorescence, a

Whether mathematical and linguistic processes share the same neural mechanisms has been a matter of controversy.By examining various sentence structures, we recently demonstrated that activations in the left inferior frontal gyrus (L.IFG) and left supramarginal gyrus (L.SMG) were modulated by the Degree of Merger (DoM), a measure for the complexity