We examined the importance of awareness for eyeblink conditioning by directly comparing single-cue delay eyeblink conditioning and single-cue trace eyeblink conditioning. During single-cue delay conditioning, participants who became aware of the stimulus contingencies early in the conditioning session conditioned no better than those who became aware later in the session or did not become aware...

This article studies the particle temperature distribution depending on the laser radiation power and the particle’s trajectory and velocity. The uneven heating of particles moving in the laser radiation field is identified. The regimes of laser heating without melting, with partial melting, and with complete particle melting are considered.

Hermissenda CSP24 (cytoskeletal-related protein 24) is a 24 kDa beta-thymosin-like protein that is associated with intermediate memory. We showed previously that one-trial conditioning resulted in a significant increase in the phosphorylation of CSP24 detected in lysates of the pathway supporting the conditioned stimulus (CS). Here we report the association of the protein with the actin cytoske...

In this paper, we propose a novel air-conditioning system that will be effective for wide public space such as a concourse of railway station, exhibition hall or museum. In these spaces, conventional air-conditioners are not enough, since the air-conditioner sends a wind to also empty area and where the temperature is already sufficient. Generally, it is difficult to ventilate effectively to th...

In part I of this paper (previous issue of Robotica) a dual stage system with the coarse and fine actuators is adopted to achieve sub-micron accuracy with a large working space for the proposed new three degree-of-freedom (DOF) miniaturized micro parallel mechanism with high mobility and one type of the architecture with vertical actuator locations in all three legs (C-VV type) among six possib...

Tethering a fly for stationary flight allows for exquisite control of its sensory input, such as visual or olfactory stimuli or a punishing infrared laser beam. A torque meter measures the turning attempts of the tethered fly around its vertical body axis. By punishing, say, left turning attempts (in a homogeneous environment), one can train a fly to restrict its behaviour to right turning atte...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the suitability of air-abrasive technology for fissure caries diagnosis and conditioning the occlusal tooth surface before sealing. Methods: Eighteen patients (age range 6-15 years) with 66 permanent molars with darkened fissures were examined for caries by visual inspection (VI), laser fluorescence (LF), and air abrasion (AA). AA was used as a referen...

In this paper, we present a review of the measurements that Dual Emission Laser Induced Fluorescence (DELIF) has allowed us to make over the last 8 years. We have been able to measure many features of the slurry film between the wafer and the pad during polishing while simultaneously measuring the frictional drag. In particular, we measured slurry mean residence time, slurry temperature, and th...