The static critical phenomenology near the Curie temperature of the re-entrant metallic alloys Au(0.81)Fe(0.19), Ni(0.78)Mn(0.22), Ni(0.79)Mn(0.21) and amorphous a-Fe(0.98)Zr(0.08) is studied using a variety of experimental techniques and methods of analysis. We have generally found that the values for the exponents α, β, γ and δ depart significantly from the predictions for the 3D Heisenberg m...

Whether or not the atrium plays an essential role in initiating and/or sustaining atrioventricular (A-V) nodal re-entrant tachycardia was evaluated in eight patients. In all eight patients, the atrium could be rendered refractory to retrograde atrial echoes during the tachycardia without interrupting the arrhythmia. This was accomplished by introducing atrial premature depolarizations prior to ...

The short QT syndrome (SQTS) is a genetically heterogeneous condition characterized by abbreviated QT intervals and an increased susceptibility to arrhythmia and sudden death. This simulation study identifies arrhythmogenic mechanisms in the rapid-delayed rectifier K(+) current (I(Kr))-linked SQT1 variant of the SQTS. Markov chain (MC) models were found to be superior to Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) mod...

Auxetic materials or with a negative Poisson's ratio have great potential to be used in many industries because of their specific mechanical properties such as high stiffness and strength significant weight saving. In this article, the effect various parameters fabrication process on microstructure polyurethane auxetic foam was investigated. Moreover, compression behavior different situations, ...

An extensible semiflexible filament moving on a motility assay of motor proteins undergoes first order re-entrant phase transition from open chain to spiral as function the extension rate and turnover proteins.

We consider the Poisson equation −∆u = f with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition on a two-dimensional polygonal domain Ω with re-entrant angles. A multigrid method for the computation of singular solutions and stress intensity factors using piecewise linear functions is analyzed. When f ∈ L2(Ω), the rate of convergence to the singular solution in the energy norm is shown to be O(h), and t...

We investigated the effect of various spectral manipulations on the identification of sentential prosody. Two main categories of prosody--affective (happy, angry, sad) and linguistic (statement, question, continuation)--were studied. Thirty-six subjects were presented with stimuli that were recorded by a female native speaker of American English. The stimuli were digitally manipulated to create...