A multiple vertical rod setup for needless electrospinning was used to fabricate submicron polymer fibers. The design with multiple vertical rods is a new concept for increased production of electrospun fibers. Different geometries and operating conditions are possible. The effects of varying the number of rods in the array have been studied and reported [1]. The goal of this work was a proof o...

Visual orientation cues largely determine our perceptions of "vertical," as illustrated in the Rod and Frame Illusion (RFI): an upright rod appears slanted in the opposite direction of a surrounding tilted frame. We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the cortical time course of the frame's illusory influence on the perceived orientation of the rod. ERPs to an orientation discrimina...

Chemotherapy in childhood can result in long-term neurophysiological side-effects, which could extend to visual processing, specifically the degree to which a person relies on vision to determine vertical and horizontal (visual dependency). We investigated whether adults treated with chemotherapy in childhood experience elevated visual dependency compared to controls and whether any difference ...

BACKGROUND The modular hemipelvic prosthesis has been used in patient of Type I-IV pelvic tumor with good outcomes, but how to keep the stability between the prosthesis and the residual sacrum is a problem. An additional screw-rod system seems to solve it, but its biomechanical characters are still not well understood, which need experimental evaluation. METHODS Six pelvic specimens were prep...

Females have been reported to be more 'visually dependent' than males. When aligning a rod in a tilted frame to vertical, females are more influenced by the frame than are males, who align the rod closer to gravity. Do females rely more on visual information at the cost of other sensory information? We compared the subjective visual vertical and the perceptual upright in 29 females and 24 males...

This research examines the haptic perception of orientations in the frontal plane in order to identify the nature of their representation. Blindfolded participants inserted the tip of the index finger into a thimble mounted on the extremity of a haptic interface and manually explored the orientation of a "virtual rod". After a short delay, participants had to reproduce the scanned orientation w...

in iran, onion plants are currently broadcast over the majority of onion fields and weeding and harvesting are done manually by seasonal workers. at harvest time, 40 worker-days are required to onion dig just one hectare. this cost could be saved if the operation could be carried out by machine. rear-mounted diggers can only be implemented if 40 cm spacing between rows is allowed for each tract...