The capacity for short-term adaptation is a well-established property of the horizontal (H) and vertical (V) components of saccades. It allows these directional components, which clearly serve the goal of foveation, to maintain their precision even under changing circumstances. Torsional (T) saccade components, on the other hand, which deal with the orientation of the target on the fovea, have ...

A COMPARISON OF TORSIONAL STRESS PROPERTIES OF THREE DIFFERENT NICKEL-TITANIUM FILES WITH SIMILAR CROSS-SECTIONAL DESIGN Reid C. Wycoff D.D.S. Marquette University, 2012 The purpose of this study was to compare the in vitro torsional stress characteristics of Twisted Files (SybronEndo, Orange, CA) with two milled files of similar cross section, EndoSequence (Brasseler USA, Savannah, GA) and Pro...

PURPOSE Exotropia in congenital homonymous hemianopia has been reported to provide field expansion that is more useful when accompanied with harmonious anomalous retinal correspondence (HARC). Torsional strabismus with HARC provides a similar functional advantage. In a subject with hemianopia demonstrating a field expansion consistent with torsion, we documented torsional strabismus and torsion...

PURPOSE To analyze temperature increases and identify potential sources of heat generated when sleeved and sleeveless phacoemulsification probes were operated in axial and torsional modes using the Infiniti Vision System with the Ozil torsional handpiece. SETTING Phacodynamics Laboratory, Pasteur Ophthalmic Clinic, Santiago, Chile. DESIGN Experimental study. METHODS Two computer-controlle...

I would like to present our experiences with torsional and micro-coaxial technology on behalf of our French research group. My goal is to demonstrate to surgeons the transition from performing phacoemulsification with traditional longitudinal ultrasound to a micro-coaxial procedure using torsional technology. The impetus for the development of micro-incisional phacoemulsification was to provide...

Torsional harmonic cantilevers allow measurement of time-varying tip-sample forces in tapping-mode atomic force microscopy. Accuracy of these force measurements is important for quantitative nanomechanical measurements. Here we demonstrate a method to convert the torsional deflection signals into a calibrated force wave form with the use of nonlinear dynamical response of the tapping cantilever...

We develop and solve a continuum theory for the piezoelectric response of nanotubes under applied uniaxial and torsional stresses. We find that the piezoelectric response is controlled by the chiral angle, the aspect ratio, and two dimensionless parameters specifying the ratio of the strengths of the electrostatic and elastic energies. The model is solved in two limiting cases and the solutions...

The relative stiffness of naked DNA is evident from measured values of longitudinal persistence length (approximately 150 bp) and torsional persistence length (approximately 180 bp). These parameters predict that certain arrangements of eukaryotic transcription activator proteins in gene promoters should be much more effective than others in fostering protein-protein interactions with the basal...