Background & Aims: Liver fibrosis is characterized by sustained injury stress, chronic inflammation, and repeated cell death and repair, all of which promote the progression of end-stage liver diseases (e.g., liver cirrhosis and carcinoma).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA simple yet insightful question is whether it is possible to arrange optical resonances in such a way that their collective response differs from that of the individual constituents. Here, inspired by the collective oscillation of spatially localized modes and Fourier duality between real and momentum spaces, we demonstrate a chiral emission of collective guided modes by leveraging the omnidirectional hybridization of individual guided resonances within a photonic crystal slab. Specifically, we encircle a uniform photonic crystal with isotropic boundaries and hybridize discrete bulk guided resonances into a series of collective modes owing to the scatterings of the boundaries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the ocular surface effects of different digital media experiences in Chinese elementary school students.
Design: Population-based cross-sectional study was used.
Setting: 14 randomly selected primary schools in Yuhuatai District, Nanjing, China PARTICIPANTS: 2,694 students between 7 and 8-year-old.