When a sounding tuning fork is brought close to the ear, and rotated about its long axis, four distinct maxima and minima are heard. However, when the same tuning fork is rotated while being held at arm’s length from the ear only two maxima and minima are heard. Misconceptions concerning this phenomenon are addressed and the fundamental mode of the fork is described in terms of a linear quadrup...

In this paper, we study the electrical properties and current-temperature stress (CTS) induced electrical instability of half Corbino and fork-shaped hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin-film transistors (TFTs) fabricated on the same substrate. The influence on overall electrical properties of the threshold voltage shift of half Corbino a-Si:H TFT is discussed in comparison to fork-shap...

The sequence of 1267 nucleotides spanning the replication terminus, terC, of the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome has been determined. The site of arrest of the clockwise fork, which defines terC, has been localized to a 30-nucleotide portion (approximately) within this sequence. The arrest site occurs in an A + T-rich region between two open reading frames and very close to one of two imperfec...

Fork/join stations model synchronization constraints in queuing network models of many manufacturing and computer systems. We consider a fork/join station with two input buffers and general inputs from finite populations and derive approximate expressions for throughput and mean queue lengths at the input buffers. We assume that the arrivals to the fork/join stations are renewal, but our approx...

The representation theorem for fork algebras was always misunderstood regarding its applications in program construction. Its application was always described as “the portability of properties of the problem domain into the abstract calculus of fork algebras”. In this paper we show that the results provided by the representation theorem are by far more important. We show that not only the heuri...

The three tuning forks generally used include : 256 Hz, 512 Hz, 1024 Hz. Most common being 512Hz. 512 because It has appropriate decay time, Less overtones and lies in speech frequency. Compressing the prongs with fingers produces around 70 dB sound and hitting against Knee or elbow 90dB. A prediction of air-bone gap can be made if tuning forks of 256, 512 and 1024 Hz are used. • Rinne test equ...

In this informal note, we demonstrate the existence of forking and nondividing formulas in continuous theory of the complete Urysohn sphere, as well as the discrete theories of the integral Urysohn spaces of diameter n (where n ≥ 3). Whether or not such formulas existed was asked in thesis work of the author, as well as joint work with Terry. We also show an interesting phenomenon in that, for ...