The coupled vibration between an acoustic field and a plate is encountered in many engineering and industrial applications. The interaction between the wind and a windshield of a car is an interesting example found in the automobile industry. Mathematically, such an interaction is described by the coupled system of the second order scalar wave equation and the fourth order plate vibration equat...

PURPOSE To describe a video-based head-tracking technique to compensate for torsional, horizontal, and vertical in-plane head movements during pupil/iris-tracking video-oculography with a tilting haploscope. METHODS Custom software was developed for image acquisition and off-line analysis for a novel haploscopic viewing device. Head movements were constrained to the frontal plane with the use...

The effect of sloping boundaries on thermal convection is studied theoretically and experimentally in the context of a model in which fluid is contained in a differentially heated rectangular box of small aspect ratio (depth/length), inclined at an angle 8 to the vertical. Like its two limiting cases, Benard convection and convection in the vertical slot, there is a steady laminar twodimensiona...

Along the Isthmus of Panama 23 paleomagnetic sites were sampled in order to determine preliminary block rotations and paleolatitudinal movements. The lithology selected for this research corresponds to volcanic and sedimentary rocks with ages ranging from Upper Cretaceous to Pleistocene. Counterclockwise vertical axis rotations were uncovered in Paleocene and Oligocene units separated by a sini...