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Sensitive and selective quantification of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in urine of the general population by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
(Elsevier, 2020-08-26)Glyphosate is the highest volume herbicide used worldwide, and its main biodegradation product is aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), both are listed as priority substances in the Human Biomonitoring for Europe initiative ... -
Simple characterization scheme for optical coherence tomography systems with application to a commercial and a near-isometric resolution fibre-based system
(2021-12-14)Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a rapidly growing imaging modality in biomedical optics. OCT can perform high-resolution, cross-sectional imaging of the microstructure of biological tissues by measuring the coherent ... -
Simultaneous en-face imaging of multiple layers with multiple reference optical coherence tomography
(Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2017-08-22)A technique based on multiple reference optical coherence tomography (MR-OCT) is proposed for simultaneous imaging at multiple depths. The technique has been validated by imaging a reference sample and a fingerprint in-vivo. ... -
Simultaneous Multiwavelength Observations of Markarian 421 During Outburst
(2009)We report on the results of two coordinated multiwavelength campaigns that focused on the blazar Markarian 421 during its 2006 and 2008 outbursts. These campaigns obtained UV and X-ray data using the XMM-Newton satellite, ... -
Sophisticated clean air strategies required to mitigate against particulate organic pollution
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-03-17)Since the 1980's, measures mitigating the impact of transboundary air pollution have been implemented successfully as evidenced in the 1980-2014 record of atmospheric sulphur pollution over the NE-Atlantic, a key region ... -
Spatial frequency domain correlation mapping optical coherence tomography for nanoscale structural characterization
(AIP Publishing, 2019-09-16)Most of the fundamental pathological processes in living tissues exhibit changes at the nanoscale. Noninvasive, label-free detection of structural changes in biological samples pose a significant challenge to both researchers ... -
Spectral encoding of spatial frequency approach for characterization of nanoscale structures
(American Institute of Physics, 2012-07-17)An approach to acquire axial structural information at nanoscale is demonstrated. It is based on spectral encoding of spatial frequency principle to reconstruct the structural information about the axial profile of the ... -
Status of the VERITAS Observatory
(2008)VERITAS, an Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) system for gammma-ray astronomy in the GeV-TeV range, has recently completed its first season of observations with a full array of four telescopes. A number of ... -
The study of neutron star magnetospheres with LOFT
(2015)The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing, LOFT, is designed to perform fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy with uniquely large throughput (Feroci et al. 2014). LOFT focuses on two fundamental questions of ESA’s Cosmic Vision ... -
Summertime primary and secondary contributions to Southern Ocean cloud condensation nuclei
(Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2019-07-18)Atmospheric aerosols in clean remote oceanic regions contribute significantly to the global albedo through the formation of haze and cloud layers; however, the relative importance of ‘primary’ wind-produced sea-spray over ... -
Supersonic turbulence in the cold massive core JCMT 18354-0649S
(2009)An example of a cold massive core, JCMT 18354-0649S, a possible high mass analogue to a low mass star forming core is studied. Line and continuum observations from JCMT, Mopra Telescope and Spitzer are presented and modelled ... -
Synthetic aperture Fourier holographic optical microscopy
(American Physical Society, 2006-10-18)We report a new synthetic aperture optical microscopy in which high-resolution, wide-field amplitude and phase images are synthesized from a set of Fourier holograms. Each hologram records a region of the complex two-dimensional ... -
TeV and Multi-wavelength Observations of Mrk 421 in 2006-2008
(2011)We report on TeV gamma-ray observations of the blazar Mrk 421 (redshift of 0.031) with the VERITAS observatory and the Whipple 10m Cherenkov telescope. The excellent sensitivity of VERITAS allowed us to sample the TeV ... -
TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of the Perseus and Abell 2029 Galaxy Clusters
(2006)Galaxy clusters might be sources of TeV gamma rays emitted by high-energy protons and electrons accelerated by large scale structure formation shocks, galactic winds, or active galactic nuclei. Furthermore, gamma rays may ... -
Three-dimensional depth-resolved and extended-resolution micro-particle characterization by holographic light scattering spectroscopy
(Optica, 2010)Fourier-holographic light scattering spectroscopy is applied to record complex angular scattering spectra of two- and three-dimensional samples over a wide field of view. We introduce a computational depth sectioning ... -
Tissue viability imaging of skin microcirculation following exposure to Cold Air (-110°C) and Cold Water (8°C)
(CIAFEL, 2013)Cryotherapy is currently used in various clinical, rehabilitative and sporting settings. However, very little is known regarding the impact of cooling on the microcirculatory response. Objectives: The present study sought ... -
Top-down and bottom-up aerosol-cloud closure: towards understanding sources of uncertainty in deriving cloud shortwave radiative flux
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2017-08-22)Top-down and bottom-up aerosol-cloud shortwave radiative flux closures were conducted at the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station in Galway, Ireland, in August 2015. This study is part of the BACCHUS (Impact of Biogenic ... -
Tracking potential sources of peak ozone concentrations in the upper troposphere over the Arabian Gulf region.
(Elsevier (Science Direct), 2014-11-13)In August 2013, the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), was the first to launch temporally highly resolved ozonesondes in the Middle East region. The data from 20 launches consistently show changes in ... -
Ultra-sensitive label free imaging below the resolution limit
(SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) Digital Library, 2019-02-02)Almost all known nanoscopy methods rely upon the contrast created by fluorescent labels attached to the object of interest. This causes limitations on their applicability to in vivo imaging. A new label-free spectral ...