Objective: To determine whether there is an increased cancer incidence and mortality in populations exposed to radiofrequency radiations from TV towers. Design: An ecological study comparing cancer incidence and mortality, 1972-1990, in nine municipalities, three of which surround the TV towers and six of which are further away from the towers. (TV radiofrequency radiation decreases with the sq...

—The introduced American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) has been implicated in the decline of native amphibians. Bullfrogs have become widespread in California and are a threat to the native California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii). The two species are ecologically similar, and the bullfrog is a predator to the red-legged frog that may influence its habitat use patterns. We analyzed the ...

In the Twin Towers of Hanoi version of the well known Towers of Hanoi Problem there are two coupled sets of pegs. In each move, one chooses a pair of pegs in one of the sets and performs the only possible legal transfer of a disk between the chosen pegs (the smallest disk from one of the pegs is moved to the other peg), but also, simultaneously, between the corresponding pair of pegs in the cou...

Executive dysfunction (ED) is a characteristic of Huntington disease (HD), but its severity and progression is less understood in the prodromal phase, e.g., before gross motor abnormalities. We examined planning and problem-solving abilities using the Towers Task in HD mutation-positive individuals without motor symptoms (n = 781) and controls (n = 212). Participants with greater disease progre...

This paper investigates the role of pitch accent information in spoken-word recognition in listeners in Fukushima, Japan, whose dialect is accentless. Previous research revealed that accentless listeners were less sensitive to pitch accent than Tokyo Japanese listeners. The present study asked whether middle-aged listeners’ use of accent information would differ from that of young listeners. 40...

We consider a set of static towers with communication capabilities, but not within range of each other due to distance and obstacles. The goal is to achieve connectivity among the towers through a set of robots positioned in a way to act as gateways among the towers. The autonomous mobile robots are initially randomly deployed without necessarily being within range of each other, nor of the st...

The ability to traverse unknown, rough terrain is an advantage that legged locomoters have over their wheeled counterparts. However, due to the complexity of multi-legged systems, research in legged robotics has not yet been able to reproduce the agility found in the animal kingdom. In an effort to reduce the complexity of the problem, researchers have developed single-legged models to gain ins...

Packed towers are widely used for distillation processes due to their higher separation efficiency and capacity in comparison to tray towers. The separation efficiency of the tower strongly depends on the liquid flow behaviour inside the packing, which becomes more complex with the appearance of a second liquid phase. Such flow behaviour can be observed in the three-phase distillation process i...

Modular towers, a notion due to M. Fried, are towers of Hurwitz spaces, with levels corresponding to the characteristic quotients of the p-universal Frattini cover of a fixed finite group G (with p a prime divisor of |G|). The tower of modular curves X1(pn) (n>0) is the original example: the group G is then the dihedral group Dp. There are diophantine conjectures on modular towers, inspired by ...

this paper studies the effect of flexible linear torso on the dynamics of passive quadruped bounding. a reduced-order passive and conservative model with linear flexible torso and springy legs is introduced. the model features extensive spine deformation during high-speed bounding, resembling those observed in a cheetah. fixed points corresponding to cyclic bounding motions are found and calcul...