Nonlinear hunting speeds of railway vehicles running on a tangent track are analytically obtained using Hopf bifurcation theory in this paper. The railway vehicle model consists of nonlinear primary yaw dampers, nonlinear flange contact stiffness as well as the clearance between the wheel flange and rail tread. Linear and nonlinear critical speeds are obtained using Bogoliubov method. A compreh...

She was followed up regularly for almost two years and showed no signs of relapse. She stopped taking antithyroid drugs several times and suffered brief relapses of hyperthyroidism, but without any psychosis. Comment Hyperthyroidism commonly presents with mental changes such as irritability and anxiety, but psychotic symptoms like hallucination and delusion are rare. The review by Ellis and Mel...

A young woman with nonthymomic myasthenia gravis with failure of medical treatment was offered thymectomy through partial sternotomy. Shifting of vertical arm of "L" incision laterally avoids fracture of opposite sternal flange and provides better sternal stability postoperatively.

Surface wrinkling instability is typically caused by compressive stresses in layered systems. In a bilayer system with a stiff surface layer on a drastically more compliant substrate, spontaneous wrinkle patterns emerge as a result of the wrinkling instability. The wrinkle patterns can be controlled to form ordered surface structures, offering an unconventional method for microfabrication. [ 1–...

Vibrato, Flange, and Stereo Chorus are perhaps the three most often used digital audio effects that are created by smoothly modulating the duration of a delay line at typically sub-audio rates. Common practice is to use a periodic or quasi-periodic modulation control signal with frequency roughly between 2 and 9 Hz, and both the rate and depth of delay modulation are typically adjusted accordin...