Abstract Detecting shielded special nuclear material, such as nuclear explosives, is a difficult challenge pursued by non-proliferation, anti-terrorism, and nuclear security programs worldwide.Interrogation with intense fast-neutron pulses is a promising method to characterize concealed nuclear material rapidly but is limited by suitable source ava

Introduction: Coccidioidal meningitis (CM) is the most lethal form of disseminated coccidioidomycosis.Current guidelines recommend fluconazole as initial therapy but there has been a paucity of data regarding failure Condoms of fluconazole and optimal fluconazole dosage in the treatment of CM.We conducted this study to understand risk factors for f

The understanding of what drives capital flows is continually evolving.Earlier theories provided support for the role of macroeconomic factors, however, the drivers expanded to include non-macroeconomic factors following the Lucas (1990) paradox, which spurred interest towards examining the role of institutional quality and, in more recent years, c

Many factors such as genetic, developmental and hormonal are involved in mammalian sex determination.The relative importance and the mutual interactions among those factors are obscure.Study of cytogenetic mosaicism involving sex chromosomes may help to further unravel the mysterious process.We report a fetus with a mosaic karyotype, 45,X/46,X,idic

A reflective sandwiched polarizing beam splitter (PBS) grating with a connecting layer in Littrow mounting is described and designed in this paper.By using two-beam-interference theory for a modal method, a duty cycle and a period of grating can be calculated, where the first order is well suppressed for transverse magnetic (TM) polarization.In add