The plateau phase of prolonged Sr-mediated contractions of preparations of cat and frog heart muscle was used to study the transient response to abrupt changes in load or length. An oscillatory response (total amplitude equal to or less than 5% Lmax) was obtained. Isotonic oscillations were less damped than their isometric counterparts, implying positive feedback and thus a causal role of the p...

objective: this study has used item response theory (irt) to examine the psychometric properties of health-related quality-of-life. method: this investigation is a descriptive- analytic study. subjects were 370 undergraduate students of nursing and midwifery who were selected from tabriz university of medical sciences. all participants were asked to complete the farsi version of whoqol-bref. sa...

In oscillating mechanical systems, nonlinearity is responsible for the departure from proportionality between the forces that sustain their motion and the resulting vibration amplitude. Such effect may have both beneficial and harmful effects in a broad class of technological applications, ranging from microelectromechanical devices to edifice structures. The dependence of the oscillation frequ...

There remains considerable uncertainty about the underlying causes and functional significance of cortical oscillation and synchronization. We examined the temporal structure and synchronization of spikes in cell assemblies (groups of 4-6 cells with similar orientation preference). Recordings were made with a 5x5 microelectrode array in supragranular layers of Area 17 of cats paralyzed and anes...

â â  a great portion of precipitation in the south western iran falls in the snow formation. surface runoff produced from melting snow has an important role in the recharging ground water, surface and subsurface flows. rapid snowmelt can even cause flooding . since the snowmelt cannot be easily detected from optical satellite images, snow cover area (sca) is derived as an important hydrological...

The mechanism that causes an interdecadal oscillation in a coarse resolution sector ocean model forced by mixed boundary conditions is studied. The oscillation is characterized by large fluctuations in convective activity and air/sea heat exchange on a decadal time scale. When the convective activity is large, a strengthening of the southeastward surface flow advects more relatively fresh water...

The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, originating in the Tropical Pacific, is the strongest natural interannual climate signal and has widespread effects on the global climate system and the ecology of the Tropical Pacific. Any strong change in ENSO statistics will therefore have serious climatic and ecological consequences. Most global climate models do simulate ENSO, although la...

Let $(u_n)$ be a sequence of fuzzy numbers.  We recover the slow oscillation of $(u_n)$ of fuzzy numbers from the Ces`{a}ro summability of its generator sequence and some additional conditions imposed on $(u_n)$. Further, fuzzy analogues of some well known classical Tauberian theorems for Ces`{a}ro summability method are established as particular cases.