Theoretical research on light propagation in W-type single-mode fiber

We give the characteristic equation of a W-type fiber by solving Maxwell's equations along with boundary conditions at the interfaces. The cutoff condition of the fundamental mode is examined,and a novel W-type fiber working in S-band is designed.

Current treatment options and response rates in children with chronic hepatitis C

Vertical transmission has become the most common mode of transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in children.The rate of perinatal transmission from an HCVinfected mother to her child ranges from 2% to 5% and the prevalence of HCV in children in developed countries ranges between 0.1% and 0.4%.Spontaneous viral clearance seems to be dependent on the genotype and has been reported between 2.4%-25%.For chronically infected patients,treatment with recombinant polyethylene glycol (PEG)-interferon α-2b and daily ribavirin has now been approved as standard treatment for children 2-17 years of age.In five large prospective studies,a total of 318 children and adolescents aged 3-17 years were treated either with subcutaneous PEG-interferon α-2b at a dose of 1-1.5 μg/kg or 60 μg/m2 once a week in combination with oral ribavirin (15 mg/kg per day) or PEG-interferon α-2a with ribavirin.Subjects with genotype 1 and 4 received the medication for 48 wk and individuals with genotype 2 and 3 mainly for 24 wk.Overall sustained viral response (SVR) was achieved in 193/318 (60.7%) of treated patients.Stratified for genotype;120/234 (51%) with genotype 1,68/73 (93%) with genotype 2/3,and 6/11 (55%) with genotype 4 showed SVR.Relapse rate was between 7.7% and 17%.Overall,treatment was well tolerated;how-ever,notable side effects were present in approximately 20%.According to recent experiences in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in children and adolescents,a combination of PEG-interferon α with ribavirin has been found to be well tolerated and highly efficacious,particularly in individuals with genotype 2/3.Thus,this treatment can be recommended as standard of care until more effective treatment options will become available for genotype 1 patients.

Distributed Adaptive Compressed Video Sensing Using Smoothed Projected Landweber Reconstruction

A novel Compressed-Sensing-based(CS-based)Distributed Video Coding(DVC)system,called Distributed Adaptive Compressed Video Sensing(DISACOS),is proposed in this paper.In this system,the input frames are divided into key frames and non-key frames,which are encoded by block CS sampling.The key frames are encoded as CS measurements at substantially higher rates than the non-key frames and decoded by the Smoothed Projected Landweber(SPL)algorithm using multi-hypothesis predictions.For the non-key frames,a small number of CS measurements are first transmitted to detect blocks having low-quality Side Information(SI)generated by the conventional interpolation or extrapolation at the decoder;then,another group of CS measurements are sampled again upon the decoder’s request.To fully utilise the CS measurements,we adaptively allocate these measurements to each block in terms of different edge features.Finally,the residual frame is reconstructed using the SPL algorithm and the decoded non-key frame is simply determined as the sum of the residual frame and the SI.Experimental results have revealed that our CS-based DVC system yields better rate-distortion performance when compared with other schemes.

High-Order Leap-Frog Based Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Time-Domain Maxwell Equations on Non-Conforming Simplicial Meshes

A high-order leap-frog based non-dissipative discontinuous Galerkin time- domain method for solving Maxwell＇s equations is introduced and analyzed. The pro- posed method combines a centered approximation for the evaluation of fluxes at the in- terface between neighboring elements, with a Nth-order leap-frog time scheme. More- over, the interpolation degree is defined at the element level and the mesh is refined locally in a non-conforming way resulting in arbitrary level hanging nodes. The method is proved to be stable under some CFL-like condition on the time step. The convergence of the semi-discrete approximation to Maxwelrs equations is established rigorously and bounds on the global divergence error are provided. Numerical experiments with high- order elements show the potential of the method.

Convergence of Compressible Euler-Maxwell Equations to Compressible Euler-Poisson Equations

In this paper, the convergence compressible Euler-Poisson equations in a of time-dependent Euler-Maxwell equations to torus via the non-relativistic limit is studied. The local existence of smooth solutions to both systems is proved by using energy estimates for first order symmetrizable hyperbolic systems. For well prepared initial data the convergence of solutions is rigorously justified by an analysis of asymptotic expansions up to any order. The authors perform also an initial layer analysis for general initial data and prove the convergence of asymptotic expansions up to first order.