Single frog skeletal muscle fibers were attached to a servo motor and force transducer by knotting the tendons to pieces of wire at the fiver insertions. Small amplitude, high frequency sinusoidal length changes were then applied during tetani while fibers contracted both isometrically and isotonically at various constant velocities. The amlitude of the resulting force oscillation provides a re...

This paper presents a spectral analysis of the response of a fluid containing bubbles to the motions of a wall oscillating normal to itself. First, a Fourier analysis of the Rayleigh-Plesset equation is used to obtain an approximate solution for the nonlinear effects in the oscillation of a single bubble in an infinite fluid. This is used in the approximate solution of the oscillating wall prob...

This review introduces the self-oscillating behavior of two types of nonthermoresponsive polymer systems with Ru catalyst moieties for the BelousovZhabotinsky (BZ) reaction: one with a poly-vinylpyrrolidone (PVP) main chain, and the other with a poly(2-propenamide) (polyacrylamide) (PAM) main chain. The amplitude of the VP-based self-oscillating polymer chain and the activation energy for self-...

The measured performance of sub-micron Si:SiGe Schottky gated HFETs is compared to Si nMOSFETs. To allow an up-to-date comparison between Si and strained-Si FETs, the different device types have been studied in their respective technologies. RF performance as given by the cut-off and maximum oscillation frequency is given as a function of input power. The evaluation highlights the current immat...

High-quality GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well and modulation-doped heterostructures have been grown by low-pressure organometallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE) using trimethylamine alane (TMAA) as a new aluminum source. TMAA is an alternative to the conventional organometallic precursors and offers the advantage of substantially reduced oxygen and carbon incorporation in AlGaAs. Intense photoluminescenc...

Oscillation power spectrum of the Kepler red giant KIC 1027337. The left panel shows raw spectrum, where frequency maximum oscillation power, νmax, is indicated by two almost coincident vertical lines corresponding to reference measurement (dashed and with new FRA pipeline (solid black), respectively. right optimally smoothed together a local fit oscillations centered around represented orange ...

Extracellular and intracellular electric potentials in bean roots are known to show electric oscillations along the longitudinal axis with a period of several minutes. The relationship between growth and the electric oscillations was studied using roots of adzuki (Phaseolus chrysanthos). We measured surface electric potentials with a multielectrode apparatus while simultaneously measuring elong...

OBJECTIVE Chest wall vibrations are commonly used techniques that remain largely unquantified. In order to understand their effects, it is essential to measure the forces applied and their repeatability over time. This study investigated the repeatability of vibrations within and between test occasions. DESIGN Test-retest repeatability study. PARTICIPANTS Eight physiotherapists applied vibr...

Neocortical "theta" oscillation (5-12 Hz) has been observed in animals and human subjects but little is known about how the oscillation is organized in the cortical intrinsic networks. Here we use voltage-sensitive dye and optical imaging to study a carbachol/bicuculline induced theta ( approximately 8 Hz) oscillation in rat neocortical slices. The imaging has large signal-to-noise ratio, allow...