In this study, a hybrid method is proposed to investigate the nonlinear vibrations of pre- and post-buckled rectangular plates for the first time. This is an answer to an existing need to develope a fast and precise numerical model which can handle the nonlinear vibrations of buckled plates under different boundary conditions and plate shapes. The method uses the differential quadrature element...

Two low-level motion models are applied to a second-order stimulus, a translating contrast modulation of static binary noise. Both models have been used to demonstrate equivalence between energy and gradient algorithms and can be split into a motion-opponent stage followed by a contrast-normalised stage. Analysis of results shows no directional bias at the motion-opponent stage but a strong bia...

The electrocatalytic carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction reaction (CO2RR) into hydrocarbons is a promising approach for greenhouse gas mitigation, but many details of this dynamic remain elusive. Here, time-resolved surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TR-SERS) employed to successfully monitor the dynamics CO2RR intermediates and Cu surfaces with sub-second time resolution. Anodic treatment at 1.55 ...

A corrugated magnetic reflector is realized by adding a bias field to a static magnetic mirror. This permits real-time manipulation of a cold-atom cloud on time scales down to 100 ms. We show that rotation of the bias field generates a traveling corrugation of adjustable depth and velocity. Momentum is transferred from the traveling wave to the atoms, resulting in a displacement of the cloud th...

This work postulates a mechanism by which random genotypic variation is directed towards favourable phenotypic variation. Evolvability is a poorly understood concept at present; it is unclear precisely how the genotype-phenotype map aligns random genotypic mutation with favourable phenotypic variation. By static analysis of the distribution of functionality within the genotype, an emergent bias...

Crowding occurs when nearby flankers impede the identification of a peripheral stimulus. Here, we studied whether crowded features containing inaccessible emotional information can nevertheless affect preference judgments. We relied on gaze-contingent crowding, a novel method allowing for constant perceptual unawareness through eye-tracking control, and we found that crowded facial expressions ...

The phase diagram of the p-spin-interacting spin glass model in a transverse field is investigated in the limit p → ∞ under the presence of ferromagnetic bias. Using the replica method and the static approximation, we show that the phase diagram consists of four phases: Quantum paramagnetic, classical paramagnetic, ferromagnetic, and spin-glass phases. We also show that the static approximation...