Benthic-pelagic coupling processes and the quantity of carbon transferred from water column to benthic suspension feeders need multiple intensive sampling approaches where several environmental variables benthos performance are quantified. Here, activity, dietary composition, capture rates three Mediterranean gorgonians (Paramuricea clavata, Eunicella singularis, Leptogorgia sarmentosa) were as...

Muscle fibers are the cells in the body with the largest volume, and they have multiple nuclei serving different domains of cytoplasm. A large body of previous literature has suggested that atrophy induced by hindlimb suspension leads to a loss of "excessive" myonuclei by apoptosis. We demonstrate here that atrophy induced by hindlimb suspension does not lead to loss of myonuclei despite a stro...

Particle-tracking microrheology of dilute active (self-propelled) colloidal suspensions is studied by considering the external force required to maintain steady motion an immersed constant-velocity probe. If probe speed zero, suspension microstructure isotropic but exhibits a boundary accumulation bath particles at contact due their self-propulsion. As moves through suspension, distorted from n...

1. Osmotic haemolysis of a standard suspension of human red cells was followed using a recording spectrophotometer at wave-lengths between 600 and 650 mmu.2. Optical density changes in the cell suspensions were related to turbulence of the suspension, cell swelling and loss of haemoglobin-containing cells.3. The time course of the loss of cells from suspension in hypotonic electrolyte solutions...

Landing gear suspension systems fulfill the tasks of absorbing the vertical energy of the touch-down as well as providing passenger and crew comfort with a smooth ground ride before take-off and after landing. They are also designed to have optimal performance in the case of a hard landing. In general, the tasks of aircraft landing gears are complex and sometimes lead to a number of contradicto...

In this paper, the effects of using semi-active control strategy (such as MR dampers) in vehicle suspensions on the coupled vibrations of a vehicle traversing a bridge are examined in order to develop various designs of smart suspension systems for bridge-friendly vehicles. The bridge-vehicle coupled system is modeled as a simply supported beam traversed by a two-degree-of-freedom quarter-car m...

The first diverse and morphologically complex macroscopic communities appear in the late Ediacaran period, 575 to 541 million years ago (Ma). The enigmatic organisms that make up these communities are thought to have formed simple ecosystems characterized by a narrow range of feeding modes, with most restricted to the passive absorption of organic particles (osmotrophy). We test between competi...

The purpose of this paper is to present a robust strategy in controlling a hydraulically actuated active suspension system. The controller consists of the two controller loops namely inner loop controller for force tracking control of the hydraulic actuator and outer loop controller to reject the effects of road induced disturbances. The outer loop controller utilized a proportional integral sl...