ABSTRACT Controlling the octopus's flexible hyper-redundant body is a challenging task. It assumed that octopus has poor proprioception which driven development of unique mechanisms for efficient control. Here we report on such mechanism: phototactic response extraocular photoreception. Extraocular photoreception been observed in many and diverse species. Previous research cephalopods revealed ...

the aim of this paper is to study of sociological factors affecting young girls and women’s use of make-up tools. the study has been conducted through survey method and the data has been collected by questionnaire. the statistical sample was 200 girl and women students from kerman universities that selected by simple random sampling. also, in this paper, has been used from kendall, somers d and...

We prove a law of large numbers for random walks in certain kinds of i.i.d. random environments in Zd that is an extension of a result of Bolthausen, Sznitman and Zeitouni [4]. We use this result, along with the lace expansion for self-interacting random walks, to prove a monotonicity result for the first coordinate of the speed of the random walk under some strong assumptions on the distributi...

We extend the inductive approach to the lace expansion, previously developed to study models with critical dimension 4, to be applicable more generally. In particular, the result of this note has recently been used to prove Gaussian asymptotic behaviour for the Fourier transform of the two-point function for sufficiently spread-out lattice trees in dimensions d > 8, and it is potentially also a...

A rapid, wafer-level, dry process for in-situ synthesis, deposition of stable nanostructured, porous metal-oxide films for gas sensors is presented. Lace-like, nanostructured films of pure SnO2 featuring high porosity (98%) are selfassembled on a target substrate by flame spray pyrolysis (FSP). The nanoparticles are mainly polyhedral and monocrystalline with a grain size of 8.7 nm and crystal s...

OBJECTIVES External ankle support has been successfully used to prevent ankle sprains. However, some recent studies have indicated that reducing ankle range of motion can place larger loads on the knee. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of external ankle support (braces and high-top shoes) on the ankle and knee joint loading during a netball specific landing task. DESIGN A r...

We consider critical spread-out oriented percolation above 4+1 dimensions. Our main result is that the extinction probability at time n (i.e., the probability for the origin to be connected to the hyperplane at time n but not to the hyperplane at time n + 1) decays like 1/Bn2 as n →∞, where B is a finite positive constant. This in turn implies that the survival probability at time n (i.e., the ...

There has been an intense discussion among the public about the colour of a dress, shown in a picture posted originally on Tumblr (http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112073818575/guys-please-help-me-is-this-dress-white-and; accessed on 10:56 am GMT on Tue 24 Mar 2015). Some people argue that they see a white dress with golden lace, while others describe the dress as blue with black lace. Here we sho...