AIMS Central retinal vein pulsation is affected by intracranial pressure (ICP), glaucoma and venous pathology. Its genesis is poorly understood with most models suggesting that intraocular pressure (IOP) fluctuation dominates the rhythm of venous pulsation; however, this has not been explored experimentally. This study planned to measure the timing of central retinal vein pulsation with respect...

Models of M-type Miras with masses of 1 M⊙ and 1.2 M⊙, i.e. with envelope masses of about 0.4 M⊙ and 0.6 M⊙, have been constructed, and a comparison has been made of their observable properties. Geometric pulsation of continuum-forming layers is found to be little affected by the mass difference. The influence of molecular contamination of near-infrared continuum bandpasses upon interferometric...

Coronary vessels are squeezed by the surrounding myocardium during systole, impeding blood flow specifically in the subendocardium. To study the myocardial compression effect, we applied pulsatile transvascular pressure to isolated, cannulated subendocardial (Endo) and subepicardial (Epi) resistance arteries. Pressure pulsation at 0.5 to 2.5 Hz between 20 and 100 mmHg induced dilation of precon...

Tonic Immobility (TI) is a prolonged immobile condition exhibited by a variety of animals when exposed to certain stimuli, and is thought to be associated with a specific state of arousal. In our study, we characterize this state by using the reliably inducible TI state of the grasshopper (Hieroglyphus banian) and by monitoring abdominal pulsations and body movements in response to visual and a...

V405 Aurigae is an intermediate polar showing a double-peaked pulsation in soft X-rays and a single-peaked pulsation in harder X-rays. From XMM-Newton observations we find that the soft band is dominated by blackbody emission from the heated white-dwarf surface. Such emission is at a maximum when either magnetic pole points towards us, explaining the double-peaked pulsation. The symmetry of the...

Soft corals of the family Xeniidae exhibit a unique, rhythmic pulsation of their tentacles (Movie S1), first noted by Lamarck nearly 200 y ago. However, the adaptive benefit of this perpetual, energetically costly motion is poorly understood. Using in situ underwater particle image velocimetry, we found that the pulsation motions thrust water upward and enhance mixing across the coral-water bou...

torque, speed, and power as mechanical variables are associated with the functional performance of any rotating machinery. the real-time performance and the efficiency of a machine can be determined with on-line measurement of these parameters. in this investigation a rotary torque meter (transducer) was constructed from strain gauge sensors for measuring the torque of rotating shafts. the syst...

We derive and analyse, analytically and numerically, the equations for perturbations around the pulsating two-spin string soliton in AdS 5 × S 5. We show that the pulsation in S 5 indeed improves the stability properties of the two-spin string soliton in AdS 5 , in the sense that the more pulsation we have, the higher spin we can allow and still have stability.

We describe modeling of the ''beat'' and "bump" Cepheids, using the new radiative opacities. Discrepancies between these models and the evolutionary tracks for stars of appropriate mass are discussed. Finally, we point out some of the difficulties involving the long-period Cepheid sample with periods greater than 20 days.