strial punctures, and by the deeper, wider declivital sulcus. Female.— Length 2.3 mm. (paratypes 2.1-2.4), 2.6 times as long as wide; body color very dark brown to black. Frons broadly flattened between eyes from epistoma to well above eyes, with median half subconcave; gradually raised toward epistomal margin and with a conspicuous, distinctly elevated transverse epistomal process (much more c...

Much of the human cortical surface is obscured from view by the complex pattern of folds, making the spatial relationship between different surface locations hard to interpret. Methods for viewing large portions of the brain's surface in a single flattened representation are described. The flattened representation preserves several key spatial relationships between regions on the cortical surfa...

Molecular graphics provides an intuitive way for representation, modeling and analysis of complex chemical and biological systems. It is now widely used in the theoretical chemistry, structural biology, molecular modeling and drug design communities. Traditional molecular graphics techniques mainly dedicate to showing molecular architectures at three-dimensional (3D) level. However, in some occ...

This paper presents a new method for reconstructing paintings from component images. A set of monocular images of a painting from a straight homogeneous generalized cylinder is taken from various viewpoints. After deriving the surface localization in the camera coordinate system, the images are backprojected on the curved surface and attened. We derive the perspective distortion of the scene in...

Why do starless cores appear more flattened than protostellar cores? ABSTRACT We evaluate the intrinsic three dimensional shapes of molecular cores, by analysing their projected shapes. We use the recent catalogue of molecular line observations of Jijina et al. and model the data by the method originally devised for elliptical galaxies. Our analysis broadly supports the conclusion of Jones et a...

DNA provides an ideal substrate for the engineering of versatile nanostructures due to its reliable Watson-Crick base pairing and well-characterized conformation. One of the most promising applications of DNA nanostructures arises from the site-directed spatial arrangement with nanometer precision of guest components such as proteins, metal nanoparticles, and small molecules. Two-dimensional DN...

In this study, condensation heat transfer coefficients of R-410A were obtained in flattened stainless tubes made from 5.0 mm inner diameter round tubes. The test range covered saturation temperature 45 , heat flux 10 °C kW/m, mass flux 100~400 kg/ms and quality 0.2~0.8. Results showed the effect of aspect ratio on condensation heat transfer coefficient was dependent on the flow pattern. For ann...

This paper examines the dowel-bearing strength of laminated flattened-bamboo lumber (LFBL) perpendicular to grain under influence arrangement method, bolt diameter, and specimen size in accordance with ASTM D5764-97a. There were 360 specimens tested total. As a result test results, it was demonstrated that method flattened bamboo panels significantly affected LFBL. In two groups (bolt direction...

BACKGROUND There are well-established relations between personality and the heart, as evidenced by associations between negative emotions on the one hand, and coronary heart disease or chronic heart failure on the other. However, there are substantial gaps in our knowledge about relations between the heart and personality in healthy individuals. Here, we investigated whether amplitude patterns ...

Food scraping has independently evolved twice from suction feeding in the evolution of catfishes: within neotropical Loricarioidea and paleotropical Mochokidae. To gain insight in the evolutionary transitions associated with the evolution towards scraping, we analyzed prey capture kinematics in two species of benthic suction feeders which belong to taxa that are closely related to the scraper l...