Studies have shown that spatial aftereffects increase with eccentricity. Here, we demonstrate that the shape-frequency and shape-amplitude aftereffects, which describe the perceived shifts in the shape of a sinusoidal-shaped contour following adaptation to a slightly different sinusoidal-shaped contour, also increase with eccentricity. Why does this happen? We first demonstrate that the percept...

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the superorbital modulation in the ultracompact Xray source 4U 1820–303, consisting of a white dwarf accreting onto a neutron star. Based on RXTE data, we measure the fractional amplitude of the source superorbital variability (with a ∼170-d quasi-period) in the folded and averaged light curves, and find it to be by a factor of ∼2. As proposed before, the ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate and detect the multiple faults in machines using broken rotor bar and eccentricity fault frequencies techniques. It is proposed that using both current and instantaneous power signals simultaneously, will detect the multiple faults reliably, specifically using broken rotor bar fault frequencies and eccentricity fault frequencies under various load conditi...

Stereoscopic depth discrimination thresholds increase with retinal eccentricity and distance from the horopter. However, in contrast to spatial resolution, the effects of spatial frequency on stereo-thresholds in the periphery are unknown. For spatial vision, it is generally assumed that the retina is comprised of a series of overlapping spatial filter mechanisms and that there is a commensurat...

Aim: The primary aim of this study was to find if there is any correlation between the corneal radius of curvature and its eccentricity. Method: 45 subjects participated in this study, 24 emmetropes, 18 myopes and three hyperopes. All subjects were free of ocular abnormalities and had no media opacities. All the subjects had normal ocular health and good visual acuity of 1.0 or better for both ...

We consider the high eccentricity, 0.66, of the newly discovered planet around 16 Cyg B, using the fact that the parent star is part of a wide binary. We show that the high eccentricity of the planet could be the result of tidal forces exerted on 16 Cyg B and its planet by 16 Cyg A, the distant companion in the system. By following stellar triple systems with parameters similar to those of 16 C...

Stimulus eccentricity affects visual processing in multiple ways. Performance on a visual task is often better when target stimuli are presented near or at the fovea compared to the retinal periphery. For instance, reaction times and error rates are often reported to increase with increasing eccentricity. Such findings have been interpreted as purely visual, reflecting neurophysiological differ...

When speaking about the diagnostic and reliability of induction motor (IM), it is important to note that the modeling is a main step permitting to study the evolution laws of the faults related harmonics. This is the aim of many previous works, but only few attempts on axial air-gap eccentricity modeling can be found. This paper deals with a new model of axial air-gap eccentricity faults in IM....

In Experiments 1-3, we monitored search performance as a function of target eccentricity under display durations that either allowed or precluded eye movements. The display was present either until observers responded, for 104 msec, or for 62 msec. In all three experiments an orientation asymmetry emerged: observers detected a tilted target among vertical distracters more efficiently than a ver...

Pluto’s recently discovered minor moons, Nix and Hydra, have almost circular orbits, and are nearly coplanar with Charon, Pluto’s major moon. This is surprising because tidal interactions with Pluto are too weak to damp their eccentricities. We consider an alternative possibility: that Nix and Hydra circularize their orbits by exciting Charon’s eccentricity via secular interactions, and Charon ...