BACKGROUND The various measurements of patellar tilting failed to isolate patellar tilting from the confounding effect of its neighboring bone rotation (femoral and tibial rotation) in people sustaining patellofemoral pain (PFPS). Abnormal motions of the tibia and the femur are believed to have an effect on patellofemoral mechanics and therefore PFPS. The current work is to explore the various ...

The oblique magnetic rotator is a satisfactory model describing the general properties of the magnetic Ap stars. The inferred rotation periods are almost always considerably longer than those of the normal A stars. The loss of angular momentum is plausibly the result of magnetic coupling with external gas during some epoch in the star’s life. The same Maxwell stresses that brake the stellar rot...

The Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) is an H I and 1.4-GHz continuum survey of the 4th quadrant of the Galaxy at arcmin resolution. We present here results on linearly polarized continuum emission from an initial 28-square-degree Test Region for the SGPS, consisting of 190 mosaiced pointings of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, and covering the range 325.5< l < 332.5, −0.5< b< +3.5. C...

The large-scale magnetic field of our Galaxy can be probed in three dimensions using Faraday rotation of pulsar signals. We report on the determination of 223 rotation measures from polarization observations of relatively distant southern pulsars made using the Parkes radio telescope. Combined with previously published observations these data give clear evidence for large-scale counterclockwise...

In this paper we present new observations of the gravitational lens system JVAS B0218+357 made with a global VLBI network at a frequency of 8.4 GHz. Our maps have an rms noise of 30 μJy beam and with these we have been able to image much of the extended structure of the radio jet in both the A and B images at high resolution (∼1 mas). The main use of these maps will be to enable us to further c...

We report on the magneto-optical measurements of an epitaxial SrRuO3 film grown on SrTiO3 s0 0 1d, which previously was determined to be single domain orientated by x-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy techniques. Our experiments reveal a large Kerr rotation, which reaches a maximum value of about 0.5° at low temperature. By measuring magnetic hysteresis loops at different temperatures, we ...

The future new-generation radio telescope SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and its precursors will provide a rapidly growing number of polarized radio sources. Hundred and thousands polarized background sources can be measured towards nearby galaxies thus allowing their detailed magnetic field mapping by means of Faraday rotation measures (RM). We aim to estimate the required density of the backgro...

We use an optical cavity in the regime of intermediate coupling between atom and cavity mode to detect single moving atoms. Degenerate polarization modes allow excitation of the atoms in one mode and collection of spontaneous emission in the other while keeping separate the two sources of light; we obtain a higher confidence and efficiency of detection by adding cavity-enhanced Faraday rotation...

Regular magnetic field structures can be derived from the Faraday rotation measures (RM) of polarized background sources observable at 1.4 GHz with the SKA. At lower frequencies (< 250MHz) polarimetry of radio sources with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) will allow the investigation of extremely small RM, to detect and map weak regular fields in halos and outer parts of spiral galaxies, and in ...