Abstract The generation of kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) is investigated through a three-component theoretical model incorporating ion beam and velocity shear as the sources free energy in non-Maxwellian κ -distributed plasmas. considers Maxwellian distributed background ions, drifting-Maxwellian -electrons its constituent species. It found that combination either positive with counter-streaming ...

for many physical systems like vehicles, acceleration can be easily measured for the respective states. however, the outputs are usually affected by stochastic noise disturbance. the mentioned systems are often sensitive to noise and structural uncertainties. furthermore, it is very difficult to estimate the multiple integrals of the signal, acceleration to velocity and velocity to position. in...

Reading is a complex visuomotor behavior characterized by an alternation of fixations and saccadic eye movements. Despite the widespread use of drifting texts in various settings, very little is known about eye movements under these conditions. Here we investigated oculomotor behavior during reading of texts which were drifting horizontally or vertically at different speeds. Consistent with pre...

In this short note, we prove the convexity of the first eigenfunction of the drifting Laplacian operator with zero Dirichlet boundary value provided a suitable assumption to the drifting term is added. After giving a gradient estimate, we then use the convexity of the first eigenfunction to get a lower bound of the difference of the first and second eigenvalues of the drifting Laplacian.

We present the statistical results of a systematic, unbiased search for subpulse modulation of 187 pulsars performed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands at an observing wavelength of 21 cm (Weltevrede et al. 2006a). We have increased the list of pulsars that show the drifting subpulse phenomenon by 42, indicating that more than 55% of the pulsars that show th...

Intrinsic-signal optical imaging was used to evaluate relationships of domains of neurons in middle temporal visual area (MT) selective for stimulus orientation and direction-of-motion. Maps of activation were elicited in MT of owl monkeys by gratings drifting back-and-forth, flashed stationary gratings and unidirectionally drifting fields of random dots. Drifting gratings, typically used to re...

A new drifting pulsar, PSR J0815+09, was discovered in the Arecibo driftscan searches (McLaughlin et al. 2004). An intriguing feature of this source is that within the four pulse components in the integrated pulse profile, the subpulse drifting direction in the two leading components is opposite from that in the two trailing components. In view that the leading theoretical model (Ruderman & Sut...

We describe the Drifting Edge Illusion (DEI), in which a stationary edge appears to move when it abuts a drifting grating. Although a single edge is sufficient to perceive DEI, a particularly compelling version of DEI occurs when a drifting grating is viewed through an oriented and stationary aperture. The magnitude of the illusion depends crucially on the orientations of the grating and apertu...