Active Brownian motion with intermittent direction reversals is common in bacteria like Myxococcus xanthus and Pseudomonas putida. We show that, for such a two dimensions, the presence of timescales set by rotational diffusion constant ${D}_{R}$ reversal rate $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ gives rise to four distinct dynamical regimes: (I) $t\ensuremath{\ll}min({\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{\ensuremath{-}1},{D...

AIM Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) is an established treatment for faecal incontinence (FI) when conservative modalities have failed to restore continence. This two-centre study aimed to document functional outcome and its relationship to patient satisfaction. METHOD Patients treated with SNS for idiopathic FI in Aarhus (Denmark) and Maastricht (The Netherlands) were included. At the most rec...

Myosin remains strong as muscle contracts A muscle held at fi xed length under a heavy load will contract rapidly if that load is suddenly decreased, reducing the force the muscle exerts as its velocity increases. During this contraction, what happens within the muscle fi ber? According to the prevailing model, all the myosin motors remain attached to actin fi laments, and the elasticity of ind...

We have compiled the distribution of active faults and folds in the HimalayanTibetan orogen and its immediate surrounding regions into a web-based digital map. The main product of this study is a compilation of active structures that came from those documented in the literature and from our own interpretations based on satellite images and digital topographic data. Our digital tectonic map allo...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate apical transportation and centering ability of single-fi le instruments, waveone primary, with full rotation versus reciprocation movement using cone-beam computed tomography (cbct) analysis in curved mesiobuccal (mb) root canal of human mandibular molars. materials and methods: thirty mb canals of mandibular molars were randomly divided into tw...

Takhtajan has recently studied the consistency conditions for Nambu brackets, and suggested that they have to be skew-symmetric, and satisfy Leibnitz rule and the Fundamental Identity (FI, it is a generalization of the Jacobi identity). If the n-th order Nambu brackets in dimension N is written as {f1, . . . , fn} = ηi1...in∂i1f1 · · · ∂infn (where the iα summations range over 1 . . . N), the F...

A key feature in physiotherapeutic treatment of patients with motion disturbances is the appropriate ranging of the trunk and pelvis motility. Eighty subjects randomly selected and free from known pathology of the muscular-skeletal and/or of the neurological system classed into four groups according to the age and the sex have been assessed, by using a new, simple and easy administrable tool. O...