We present results for objects settling in a cornstarch suspension. Two surprising phenomena can be found in concentrated suspensions. First, the settling object does not attain a terminal velocity but exhibits oscillations around a terminal velocity when traveling through the bulk of the liquid. Second, close to the bottom, the object comes to a full stop but then reaccelerates before coming t...

Highly sensitive simultaneous observations of the 2→1 line of the first vibrationally excited state of SiO, and of the 2→1 line of CO have been obtained toward 37 O-rich evolved stars. In ∼ 45% of these objects, the SiO line profiles present unusually broad wings, reaching, and in some cases exceeding, the terminal velocity of the circumstellar envelope. All of the objects exhibiting SiO line w...

In this study, for the purpose of determining physical and aerodynamic properties, some varieties of wheat, barley, chickpea and lentil were used. The length, width, thickness, geometric mean diameter, equivalent sphere diameter, sphericity, seed mass, bulk density, true density, projected area, terminal velocity, drag coefficient of each grain variety were determined. The theoretical terminal ...

The study described in this article was designed to evaluate visual fatigue induced during video display terminal (VDT) tasks. Newly developed equipment was used that can simultaneously measure pupillary change, focal accommodation, and eye movement. The changes in these 3 physiological measures, taken during a VDT task, were used to propose an index for evaluating visual fatigue. Through multi...

a new biological active hexapeptide of c-terminal of nocistatin, contains glu-gln-lys-gln-leu-gln sequence was synthesized according to solid phase peptide synthesis on the surface of 2-chloro tritylchloride resin and using fmoc-protected amino acids in the presence of tbtu (o-(benzotriazol-1-yl)-n,n,n',n'-tetramethyl uranium tetrafluoroborate) as a coupling reagent. then, amidation o...

The accretion disk in AGN is expected to produce strong outflows, in particular a UV-line driven wind. Several observed spectral features, including the soft X-ray excess, have been associated with the accretion disk wind. However current spectral models of the X-ray spectrum of AGN observed through an accretion disk wind, known to provide a good fit to the observed X-ray data, are ad-hoc in th...

A method is presented by which combined S-band polarimetric weather radar and UHF wind profiler observations of precipitation can be used to extract the properties of liquid phase hydrometeors and the vertical velocity of the air through which they are falling. Doppler spectra, which contain the air motion and/or fall speed of hydrometeors, are estimated using the vertically pointing wind profi...