Drum corps color guard experts spend years developing skills in spinning rifles, sabers, and flags. Their expertise provides a unique window into factors that govern sensitivity to the speed of rotational and radial motion. Prior neurophysiological research demonstrates that rotational and radial motion register in the Medial Superior Temporal (MST) region of the primate visual system. To the e...

The range of a power wheelchair depends on many factors including: battery type, battery state, wheelchair/rider weight, terrain, the efficiency of the drive train, and driving behavior. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of three methods of estimating power wheelchair range. Another significant purpose was to compare the current draw on pavement to current draw on an Int...

We simulate the size segregation of a binary mixture of granular material in a half filled two-dimensional rotating drum using the discrete elements method with linear contact forces. The dynamics of the segregation process is studied in detail as function of the angular velocity of the drum. We propose an order parameter to characterize the final amount of segregation and the segregation speed...

Sexual selection drives elaboration in animal displays used for competition and courtship, but this process is opposed by morphological constraints on signal design. How do interactions between selection and constraint shape display evolution? One possibility is that sexual selection continues exaggeration under constraint by operating differentially on each signal component in complex, modular...

Bull and Neurath (1) have reported a study of the kinetics of surface denaturation of egg albumin. The protein solutions were shaken in bottles for varying lengths of time, and the amount of denaturation determined. It was not possible, however, in their studies to establish the effect of the extent and rate of formation of surface. The present paper reports a study of surface denaturation occu...

Abstract The purpose of the study scientific work is to possibilities improving quality combined tape and performance carding machine, determining effect receiving drum on thread. speed (rotating frequency) take-up drum, acting properties fibers, directly leads a change in

The flow of dry granular material in a half-filled rotating drum is studied. The thickness of the flowing zone is measured for several rotation speeds, drum sizes and beads sizes (size ratio between drum and beads ranging from 47 to 7400). Varying the rotation speed, a scaling law linking mean velocity vs. thickness of the flow, v approximately h(m), is deduced for each couple (beads, drum). Th...

the separation of saffron stigmas from fresh flowers is the most important and the most difficult stage of saffron harvesting. saffron production costs are high because this harvesting stage is done by hand and is very time-consuming. one way of preserving the saffron flower is to dry it. the separating of the stigma from dried saffron flowers can then be done at an appropriate time. this study...

We have used speckle visibility spectroscopy (SVS) and synchronized force measurements to compare the granular dynamics of two cohesive lactose powders, with Sauter mean diameters of ~29 μm and ~151 μm, in a rotating drum. A load cell (LC) was used to measure forces on the drum mounting frame and enable monitoring of bulk powder motion; SVS is a dynamic light scattering technique particularly s...

A b s t r a e t ~ l i b r a t i o n studies were performed on the Davis Rotating-drum Universal-size-cut Monitoring (DRUM) sampler utilizing fluorescent monodisperse aerosols of polystyrene latex. The DRUM sampler is an eight-stage Lundgren-type rotating drum cascade impactor utilizing a series of single round jets for each stage including low-pressure stages. The DRUM sampler operates continuo...