Three different ways of shifting the pCa/tension curve on the pCa axis have been studied and related to changes in the rate constants of the cross-bridge cycle. The curve midpoint shifts to higher pCa's when the substrate (Mg-ATP) is reduced from 5 to 0.25 mM, when the phosphate concentration is reduced from 7.5 mM to 0, and when the ionic strength is reduced from 0.200 to 0.120. The Hill coeff...

Stimulation of one sensory modality can induce perceptual experiences in another modality that reflect synaesthetic correspondences among different dimensions of sensory experience. In visual-hearing synaesthesia, for example, higher pitched sounds induce visual images that are brighter, smaller, higher in space, and sharper than those induced by lower pitched sounds. Claims that neonatal perce...

Measurements of reaction cross sections are routinely used to deduce effective nuclear root mean square ~rms! radii by comparison with theoretical model predictions. Cross sections calculated using the optical limit Glauber model depend strongly on the rms radius of the density assumed for the projectile nucleus. We investigate such calculations by assuming a range of projectile density distrib...

In this paper a Cross Axis evaluation methodology is presented. The Cross Axis Sensitivity value depends on backend testing position tolerances as well as technological features and design properties of the MEMS gyroscope. A numerical model was developed to take into account the sources of cross axis related to the last two contributions, not considering backend tolerances. Given a specific str...

An indication that paraphenylenediamine (PPD) sensitivity might point to a rubber dermatitis was found in a report by Sidi and Dobkevitch-Morrill (1). These authors described six eases of rubber dermatitis, five of whom showed 1 to 3 plus patch test reactions to PPD. In addition and fairly often, positive patch tests have been obtained to rubber with negative tests to monobenzyl ether of hydroq...

This study explored sensitivity to word-level phonotactic patterns in English and Japanese monolingual infants. Infants at the ages of 6, 12, and 18 months were tested on their ability to discriminate between test words using a habituation-switch experimental paradigm. All of the test words, neek, neeks, and neekusu, are phonotactically legitimate for English, whereas the first two words are cr...

The most recent release of photonuclear interaction data for Monte Carlo applications is the ENDF/B-VII library. While this current version offers several improvements over its predecessors, it does not address the observed, sometimes quite significant variance in the measured data. For instance, for U, the cross-section data in the ENDF/B-VII library is consistently larger than all measurement...