What mental representations give us the sense of our body as a unique object in the world? We investigated this issue in the context of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), an illusion of body image in which a prosthetic hand brushed synchronously, but not asynchronously, with one's own hand is perceived as actually being one's hand. We conducted a large-scale study of the RHI, and used psychometric...

BACKGROUND Our sense of body ownership is profound and familiar, yet it may be misleading. In the rubber-hand illusion, synchronous tactile and visual stimulation lead to the experience that a rubber hand is actually one's own. This illusion is stronger in schizophrenia. Given the evidence that ketamine, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist reproduces symptoms of schizophrenia, we s...

ABSTRACT The variety of applications of rubber-like materials in different industrial areas is enormous. In the automotive industry rubber is utilized in tires, as engine and door seals, whereas in aerospace industry rubber rings are used in fuel systems. In other engineering fields, rubbers have been used in conveyor belts, meteorological balloons and vibration isolation bearings or shock and ...

Direct displacement-based design is a nonlinear static procedure and has to check the suitability of method against different types ground motions namely far field, near field forward directivity fling step. The applied for buildings supported on fixed base hysteretic isolation bearings. Seismic isolators are provided between foundation superstructure minimize influence motion superstructure. f...

The earthquake performance of structures with seismic isolation is much better than that fixed-base structures, and the application insulation ensures both structural integrity protection items present in structures. base-isolation system used to extend fundamental period vibration structure obtain higher value from base-isolated relative structure. Historical masonry mosques could be strengthe...

Design and development of vertically-suspended water pumps requires good understanding of the rotor system characteristics with water-lubricated rubber bearings (WLRB). This paper presents a newly-built experimental device to simulate rotor systems with WLRBs, and some initial results on experimental identification of dynamic stiffness coefficients of a long WLRB. In experiments, unbalanced mas...

Case Report A 71-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy and prior coronary artery bypass grafting surgery with a dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) placed 4 years earlier for a history of ventricular tachycardia was referred for lead extraction because of recurrent fever, vegetations on his atrial lead, and Kocuria varians bacteremia. He had a Guidant 4470 right atrial...

For improving the seismic isolation effect, traditional rubber bearing provides a smaller horizontal stiffness. However, it is unfavorable for displacement control of layer under rare earthquakes. In this paper, an improved lead-core proposed. The can provide small stiffness to enhance effect Under large earthquakes, prevent over-limit failure due excessive displacement. mechanical properties w...