The variable finesse locking technique

The variable finesse locking technique

Virgo is a power recycled Michelson interferometer, with 3 km long Fabry– Perot cavities in the arms. The locking of the interferometer has been obtained with an original lock acquisition technique. The main idea is to lock the instrument away from its working point. Lock is obtained by misaligning the power recycling mirror and detuning the Michelson from the dark fringe. In this way, a good f...

Stiffness comparison of REDAPT Locking Screws and non-locking screws utilized with the REDAPT variable angle locking feature

Postcoital Finesse

Mating changes female reproductive behavior in profound ways. In Drosophila, the trigger for this behavioral switch is a small peptide called sex peptide (SP), which is transferred with the male seminal fluid during insemination. Two papers in this issue of Neuron (Häsemayer et al. and Yang et al.) show that SP inhibits a small set of internal sensory neurons in the female genital tract. These ...

A technique to aid the insertion of distal locking screws

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The Finesse Portfolio Management Facility1

Finance courses have experienced a rapid growth in student numbers over the last decade. Several new finance degrees have been launched in recent years including the Bachelor of Finance at the University of Dundee and the Bachelor of Finance at Manchester; more are planned in the near future (such as the Bachelor of Finance at Aberdeen). Lecturers who run these courses are now faced with a prob...