Raman characterization has been employed to study key features of highly aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes grown on quartz substrates. The nanotubes are observed to possess an estimated metallic/semiconducting ratio ...

Raman-scattering techniques have been used to obtain a new quantitative measure of orientational statistics of individual molecules in a nematic liquid crystal. A marked discrepancy is observed between these measurements ...

A robust understanding of phloem functioning in tall trees evades us because current methods for collecting phloem sap do not lend themselves to measuring actively photosynthesizing canopy leaves. We show that Raman ...

The long term discount rate is critically dependent upon projections of future growth rates that are fuzzier in proportion to the remoteness of the time horizon. This paper models such increasing fuzziness as an evolving ...

We investigate stringy excitations in Randall-Sundrum effective theories for electroweak symmetry breaking arising from embedding in string theory. RS is dual to a confining gauge theory, which we expect to have “QCD ...

Accurate predictions of crop yield are critical for developing effective agricultural and food policies at the regional and global scales. We evaluated a machine-learning method, Random Forests (RF), for its ability to ...

In kidney exchanges, hospitals share patient lists and receive transplantations. A kidney-paired donation (KPD) mechanism needs to promote full sharing of information about donor-patient pairs, and identify a Pareto efficient ...