Abstract: A vehicular traffic monitoring system which is capable of providing a complete monitoring system in an assembly capable of being mounted in a plane above or beside a roadway in order to monitor substantially all factors of interest with respect to approaching and receding vehicular traffic along the roadway below.

Abstract: A vehicular traffic monitoring system which is capable of providing a complete monitoring system in an assembly capable of being mounted in a plane above or beside a roadway in order to monitor substantially all factors of interest with respect to approaching and receding vehicular traffic along the roadway below.

Abstract: A laser rangefinding module for cable connected and/or wireless operative association with smartphones and tablet computers. In a particular embodiment of the present invention disclosed herein, the operation of the laser rangefinder module is controlled by the smartphone or tablet computer and functions through the smartphone touchscreen with the laser rangefinder results being displayed on the smartphone display.

Abstract: An optical metrology system is provided with a data analysis method to determine the elastic moduli of optically transparent dielectric films such as silicon dioxide, other carbon doped oxides over metal or semiconductor substrates. An index of refraction is measured by an ellipsometer and a wavelength of a laser beam is measured using a laser spectrometer. The angle of refraction is determined by directing a light pulse focused onto a wafer surface, measuring a first set of x1, y1, and z1 coordinates, moving the wafer in the z direction, directing the light pulse onto the wafer surface and measuring a second set of x2, y2 and z2 coordinates, using the coordinates to calculate an angle of incidence, calculating an angle of refraction from the calculated angle of incidence, obtaining a sound velocity v, from the calculated angle of refraction and using the determined sound velocity v, to calculate a bulk modulus.

Abstract: A method for continuously obtaining two-dimensional microcarrier beads (2D-MS) displaying particular functional characteristics for anchorage-dependent cell culture (CAD), includes a succession of steps which consist in: continuously producing polymer film rolls from a specific polymer granules; activating the polymer film by generating reactive groups; covalent grafting between the activated polymer film and a polymer, copolymer or a macromolecule of interest; if required, washing to eliminate the monomers which have not been consumed and fixed on the film, followed by drying the grafted film; and finally cutting the grafted polymer film by continuous punching, the size of the punch being selected according to that of the dimension desired for the two-dimensional microcarrier beads.