Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: A gradient refractive index (GRIN) lens includes a transparent central disk and transparent annular segments, including central annular segments and peripheral annular segments. The central disk and each annular segment has a continuous optical phase profile at a design wavelength along a radial direction extending outward from a center of the central disk. An optical phase discontinuity is present at the interface between the central disk and the innermost central annular segment and at the interface between each pair of adjacent annular segments. Radial widths of the central annular segments decrease with increasing distance away from the center of the central disk. The peripheral annular segments have optical phase profiles for the design wavelength that are linear or have maximum first derivatives that are constant or become smaller with increasing distance of the peripheral annular segments away from the center of the central disk.

Abstract: A method for sequestering CO2 by creating precipitated calcium carbonates including Calcite, Dolomite, Vaterite and Struvite; (1) Utilizing a mutually beneficial bacterial/algal colony that can fix CO2 as Calcite, Dolomite, Vaterite and Struvite (2) providing sunlight, water, CO2 from either the air or industrial waste streams; and (3) assisting microbial/algal induced carbonate precipitation of Calcite, Dolomite, Vaterite and Struvite, thereby sequestering most of the CO2 introduced in step (2). In addition, chlorine, sulfur, H2S, NOx and toxic heavy metals will be fixed into the Calcite, Dolomite, Vaterite and/or Struvite matrix, rendering them environmentally harmless.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wireless transmitter system which provides a small, frequency agile wireless microphone transmitter allowing active performers to have a wireless transmitter system without the inconvenience of a large transmitter. The wireless receiver of the wireless transmitter system comprises a large backlit display, simple operation with auto-scan channel selection, and infrared set for syncing the wireless microphone transceiver and wireless receiver. The wireless transmitter system is simple and easy to set up and operate. The wireless transmitter system further ensures clear, interruption-free performance by utilizing a True RF Diversity design with a pilot tone-key and auto-mute function. This provides maximum operating distance along with eliminating any background noise when the wireless microphone transceiver is out of range or powered off.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wireless transmitter system which provides a small, frequency agile wireless microphone transmitter allowing active performers to have a wireless transmitter system without the inconvenience of a large transmitter. The wireless receiver of the wireless transmitter system comprises a large backlit display, simple operation with auto-scan channel selection, and infrared set for syncing the wireless microphone transceiver and wireless receiver. The wireless transmitter system is simple and easy to set up and operate. The wireless transmitter system further ensures clear, interruption-free performance by utilizing a True RF Diversity design with a pilot tone-key and auto-mute function. This provides maximum operating distance along with eliminating any background noise when the wireless microphone transceiver is out of range or powered off.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by introducing and expressing in a plant a nucleic acid operably linked to a root-specific promoter, ICprom3.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.

Abstract: Electro-optic lenses, including liquid crystals, wherein the power of the lenses can be modified by application of an electric field. In one embodiment, the liquid crystal-based lenses include ring electrodes having a resistive bridge located between adjacent electrodes, and in a preferred embodiment, input connections for several electrode rings are spaced on the lens. In a further embodiment, liquid crystal-based lenses are provided that can increase optical power through the use of phase resets, wherein in one embodiment, a lens includes ring electrodes on surfaces of the substrates on opposite sides of the liquid crystal cell such that a fixed phase term can be added to each set of electrodes that allows for phase change across each group of electrodes to be the same and also be matched with respect to a previous group.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.