It was hypothesized that overt movement can either augment or inhibit certain cognitive activities depending on whether the movement has been positively associated with or negatively associated with that cognitive activity in the past. Seventy-two subjects who believed that they were testing headphone sets engaged in either vertical, horizontal, or no-instructed head movements while listening t...

We represent music as sets of points or sets of horizontal line segments in the Euclidean plane. Via this geometric representation we cast transposition invariant content-based music retrieval problems as ones of matching sets of points or sets of horizontal line segments in plane under translations. For finding the exact occurrences of a point set (the query pattern) of size within another poi...

Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) is a phthalic acid ester and is widely used in polymeric products to make them more flexible. DBP is found in almost every plastic material and is believed to be persistent in the environment. Various analytical methods have been used to measure DBP in different matrices. Considering the ubiquitous nature of DBP, the most important challenge in DBP analyses is the contam...

A theoretical analysis of slab motion during camber evolution in unrestricted horizontal rolling is presented. The analysis shows that a linear relationship exists between centre-line deviation (CLD) curvature and outgoing camber, which is a function of ingoing and outgoing slab thickness and ingoing slab camber. An experimental study, undertaken during commercial rolling at the hot stripmill i...

Wolbachia is an intracellular endosymbiont present in most arthropod and filarial nematode species. Transmission between hosts is primarily vertical, taking place exclusively through the female germ line, although horizontal transmission has also been documented. The results of several studies indicate that Wolbachia spp. can undergo transfer between somatic and germ line cells during nematode ...

reservoir models with many grid blocks suffer from long run time; it is hence important to deliberatea method to remedy this drawback. usual upscaling methods are proved to fail to reproduce fine gridmodel behaviors in coarse grid models in well proximity. this is attributed to rapid pressure changesin the near-well region. standard permeability upscaling methods are limited to systems with lin...

Scratching skin induces vasodilatation on the line of stroke and in the surrounding tissue. Vascular network has been described using a model consisting of three layers. First and last layer presenting irrigation and drainage of the system, are described as horizontal bidimensional porous media. Intermediate layer, described by means of compartments, does not allow horizontal fluxes. Mechanical...

The E158 experiment at SLAC is a precision measurement of the left-right asymmetry in Møller scattering at low Q utilizing a high-current long-pulse polarized electron beam scattering off unpolarized electrons in a liquid hydrogen target [1]. Tolerances on beam size and position/angle stability for E158 are extremely tight, but the electron beam is subject to intensity jitter, dispersion, and w...