Biological Behavior of Bioactive Glasses SinGlass (45S5) and SinGlass High (F18) in the Repair of Critical Bone Defects by Dayane Maria Braz Nogueira, Marcelie Priscila de Oliveira Rosso, Paulo Sérgio da Silva Santos, Manoel Damião Sousa-Neto, Alice Corrêa Silva-Sousa, Cleverson Teixeira Soares, Carlos Henrique Bertoni Reis, Jéssica de Oliveira Rossi, Cleuber Rodrigo de Souza Bueno, Daniela Vieira Buchaim, Rogério Leone Buchaim, Mariana Schutzer Ragghianti Zangrando

“…Histomorphological and birefringence analyses revealed better organization of the newly formed bone in the biomaterial-treated groups, and immunohistochemistry indicated the expression of osteogenic markers such as osteocalcin, immunostaining for bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP 2), and immunostaining for bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP 4). …”
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Experimental implementation of a non-ideal three-waveplate array as a polarization disturbance corrector by J.A. Jiménez-Arias, M. Vázquez-Ibarra, S.A. Salazar-Altamirano, P. Moreno-Martínez, J.M. López-Romero, K. Jiménez-García, N.V. Corzo

“…Polarization disturbance is a significant source of error in polarization-based experiments, where an input state is unpredictably transformed into an unintended state due to the birefringence of optical media. A solution to this problem is the implementation of a polarization disturbance corrector based on a three-waveplate array. …”
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Strong-field QED effects on polarization states in dipole and quadrudipole pulsar emissions by Dong-Hoon Kim, Chul Min Kim, Sang Pyo Kim

“…At a fixed emission frequency, depending on the magnitude of the birefringent vector, dominated mostly by the magnetic field strength, the evolution of the Stokes vector largely exhibits three different patterns: (i) monotonic, or (ii) half-oscillatory, or (iii) highly oscillatory behaviors. …”
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Suppressing Polarization Mode Dispersion with the Quantum Zeno Effect by Ian Nodurft, Alejandro Rodriguez Perez, Naveed Naimipour, Harry C. Shaw

“…We find that this strategy is effective in suppressing the effects of polarization mode dispersion, and that this method produces a global phase shift related to the waveguide’s birefringent properties.…”
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Design and Fabrication of Ultrathin Metallic Phase Shifters for Visible and Near-Infrared Wavelengths by Qing Guo, Jinkui Chu, Chuanlong Guan, Chuxiao Zhang, Ran Zhang

“…The size of optical elements with phase delay that are made from natural birefringent materials is limited; however, fabricating waveplates from dielectric metamaterials is very complex and expensive. …”
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Cubic-quartic optical solitons with polarization-mode dispersion by the improved adomian decomposition scheme by Afrah M. Almalki, A.A. AlQarni, H.O. Bakodah, A.A. Alshaery, Ahmed H. Arnous, Anjan Biswas

“…This research investigates the numerical computation of cubic-quartic optical solitons in birefringent fibers in accordance with Kerr's law. Utilizing the Improved Adomian Decomposition Method (IADM), the study improves the solution of complex-valued nonlinear evolution equations. …”
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Ultrastructural studies distinguish skin diversities among Galápagos iguanas by Manuel Scimeca, Rita Bonfiglio, Giuliano Colosimo, Eleonora Candi, Glenn P. Gerber, Gregory A. Lewbart, Alessandro Mauriello, Gerry Melino, Christian Sevilla, Yufang Shi, Ying Wang, Gabriele Gentile

“…Notably, the absence of iridophores was consistent across all samples due to the absence of birefringent material under the optical microscope. Morphometric evaluations highlighted interspecific differences in the stratum corneum thickness, particularly between black- and non-black-colored (irrespectively if yellowish or pink) skin. …”
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