It is well known that the regular continued fraction expansion of a quadratic irrational is symmetric about its centre; we refer to this symmetry as horizontal. However, an additional vertical symmetry is exhibited by the continued fraction expansions arising from a family of quadratics known as Schinzel sleepers. This paper provides a method for generating every Schinzel sleeper and investigat...

The chemical composition of the watery saliva of hemipteran (both homopteran and heteropteran) insects is crucial for effective feeding, because these insects rely heavily on saliva for extra-oral digestion (Cohen, 1995, 1996, 1998) or detoxification of defensive chemicals (Miles & Oertli, 1993). For phytophagous hemipterans, saliva can also be involved in plant injury. Yet, salivary compositio...

The Epping to Chatswood Rail Link (ECRL) commenced operating in 2009. At the Chatswood end of the project, the railway corridor contains two existing tracks (with conventional ballast and sleeper design) and two new concrete slab tracks, the design of which incorporates sections of low stiffness rail fasteners and floating slab track. During commissioning, noise measurements were undertaken at ...

Buckle-initiation techniques, such as sleepers, are usually installed to trigger lateral buckling at pre-designated locations release the axial compressive forces induced by thermal loading. Taking nonlinear pipe–soil interaction model into account, a mathematical is proposed investigate of subsea pipelines triggered sleeper. The numerical solution validated comparing with solutions in literatu...

68 October 2007 EngineerIT This article aims to automate such intuitive human skills for future sleeper inspections. Pattern recognition has been proposed for classification and results from sensors based on the abovementioned methods were fused to generate a single output condition. Final results achieved in this work indicate an overall classification rate of around 88% compared to the human ...

As noted by Della Sala and Grafman in their Editorial, the traditional peerreview process has many drawbacks. In this comment, we would like to emphasize one particular problem of peer review, namely how reviewers handle findings that are incompatible with their own viewpoints. Speculating as to why it took several years before his ideas on the architecture of human memory were accepted by cogn...

in this paper effects of fractured sleepers on rail track vibration under moving wheelset have been investigated. two parallel rails of the track have been modeled as euler-bernoulli beams on elastic points as rail pads. also sleepers have been modeled as visco-elastic euler-bernoulli beams. it is assumed that, some sleepers under the rail track have been fractured and modeled by two beams. the...

Steven A. Webber, MBChB; Steven E. Lipshultz, MD; Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD; Minmin Lu, MS; James D. Wilkinson, MD; Linda J. Addonizio, MD; Charles E. Canter, MD; Steven D. Colan, MD; Melanie D. Everitt, MD; John Lynn Jefferies, MD; Paul F. Kantor, MD; Jacqueline M. Lamour, MD; Renee Margossian, MD; Elfriede Pahl, MD; Paolo G. Rusconi, MD; Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD; on behalf of the Pediatric Cardiomyop...

S. C. Forbes, L. T. Bish, M. M. Sleeper, W. Mai, H. Sweeney, and G. A. Walter Department of Physical Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Department of clinical studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Philadelphia, PA, Department...