The rapid proliferation of social media has been redefining every facet of the old marketing and customer engagement tactics, not only for low-end and mass-market products but also for luxury brands.In this context, brands are dealing with the challenge of maintaining a balance between using mass marketing strategies concurrent with accentuating th
A compact and high-resolution optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) sorter is proposed and demonstrated.The sorter comprises a quadratic fan-out mapper and a dual-phase corrector positioned in the pupil plane and the Fourier plane, respectively.The optical system is greatly simplified compared to previous demonstrations of OAM sorting, and the per
Abstract An early corrosion failure of the piping system of a Salad Spinners gas heater was reported by a gas complex company.Local corrosion rates of 0.90 and 0.66 mm/year were observed in the heater piping system.An investigation including visual examination, macrostructure, microstructure (SEM, EDS and XRD), thickness gauging, chemical analysis,
Despite appearing automatic and effortless, perceiving the visual world is a highly complex process that depends on intact visual and oculomotor function.Understanding the mechanisms underlying spatial updating (i.e., gaze contingency) represents an important, yet unresolved issue in the fields of visual perception and cognitive neuroscience.Many q