This study investigates the polarization and magnetooptic properties of single-mode fibers. These are important for the development of single-mode fiber applications such as interferometric and electromagnetic field sensors and coherent communication systems, which rely on the polarization state of the light. Various linear, circular and induced birefringence effects cause mode...
The polarization state of light in a single mode optical fiber may
be changed by linear and circular birefringence intrinsic to the fiber
or introduced by stress in the fiber due to external pressure, bends or
twists. Rotation of polarization may also occur in the absence of any
intrinsic or...
This dissertation addresses object recognition in challenging settings, where distinct object classes are visually very similar (e.g., species of birds and insects) and/or access to training examples of object classes is limited (e.g., due to the associated high costs of data annotation). In this dissertation, we present a variety of...
Transport phenomena specially the ones that occur in the various engineering disciplines such as tissue engineering and natural environment are often complex to analyze mostly due to the dynamic and geometric complexities; as such, they have been the subject of an active and intense area of research in past decades....
By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
Developers frequently change the type of a program element and update all its references for performance, security, concurrency, library migration, or better maintainability. Despite type changes being a common program transformation, it is the least automated and the least studied. Manually performing type changes is tedious since the programmers have...