This study aimed to develop insight into the lower extremity joint coupling motions used in the maximal velocity phase of sprint running. Two-dimensional coordinate data were used to derive sagittal plane joint angle profiles of sprint running trials. Intralimb joint coupling motions were examined using a continuous relative phase (CRP) analysis. The knee-ankle (KA) coupling was more out of pha...

Weak coupling connections are ubiquitous in neuronal system. For neurons with both spiking and bursting dynamics, bursting synchronization, which has been found to be related with a number of abnormal brain rhythms, is easier to occur at smaller synaptic strengths. In this paper, we examine the effect of the synaptic types on the synchronization properties of the weakly coupled bursting neurona...

Recently there has been a strong interest in cross-frequency coupling, the interaction between neuronal oscillations in different frequency bands. In particular, measures quantifying the coupling between the phase of slow oscillations and the amplitude of fast oscillations have been applied to a wide range of data recorded from animals and humans. Some of the measures applied to detect phase-am...

The ability to move in complex environments is one of the most important features of humans and animals. In this work, we exploit a bio-inspired method to generate different gaits in a bipedal locomotion system. We use the 4-cell CPG model developed by Pinto [21]. This model has been established on symmetric coupling between the cells which are responsible for generating oscillatory signals. Th...

Stochastic resonance in two coupled threshold elements with input periodic signals shifted in phase is studied. For fixed phase shift and coupling strength the signal-to-noise ratio at the output of each element can be maximized by introducing proper time delays in the coupling terms which cancel the effect of the phase shift. This shows that in systems of coupled elements driven by spatiotempo...

Experiments are presented to describe the effect of capacitive coupling of two electrochemical oscillators during Ni dissolution in sulfuric acid solution. Equivalent circuit analysis shows that the coupling between the oscillators occurs through the difference between the differentials of the electrode potentials. The differential nature of the coupling introduces strong negative nonisochronic...

We study the dynamics of a repulsively coupled array of phase oscillators. For an array of globally coupled identical oscillators, repulsive coupling results in a family of synchronized regimes characterized by zero mean field. If the number of oscillators is sufficiently large, phase locking among oscillators is destroyed, independently of the coupling strength, when the oscillators' natural f...

Four-dimensional(4D) spacetime structures are investigated using the concept of the geodesic distance in the simplicial quantum gravity. On the analogy of the loop length distribution in 2D case, the scaling relations of the boundary volume distribution in 4D are discussed in various coupling regions i.e. strong-coupling phase, critical point and weak-coupling phase. In each phase the different...

We suggest a minimal model for the coupling of the lateral phase behavior in an asymmetric lipid membrane across its two monolayers. Our model employs one single order parameter for each monolayer leaflet, namely its composition. Regular solution theory on the mean-field level is used to describe the free energy in each individual leaflet. Coupling between monolayers entails an energy penalty f...

Four-dimensional(4D) spacetime structures are investigated using the concept of the geodesic distance in the simplicial quantum gravity. On the analogy of the loop length distribution in 2D case, the scaling relations of the boundary volume distribution in 4D are discussed in various coupling regions i.e. strong-coupling phase, critical point and weak-coupling phase. In each phase the different...