The behaviour of clamping the shell against the substratum may play an important role in the limpet adhesion mechanism because friction generated by this behaviour resists dislodgement by shear forces. This paper describes the development of an apparatus to analyse limpet clamping activity in relation to known forces, including simulated wave activity and predator attack. The results show that ...

In this project, the operation and the features of a new three-level converter are presented with PV source and boost converter. The proposed topology was named three-level active-stacked neutral point clamped. It is a derivative of the 3L-SNPC structure, having two additional active switches connected anti parallel with the clamp diodes. The main advantage of 3L-ASNPC converter is the reductio...

This paper investigates the use of capacitive proximity sensors as sources of contact-free feedback signal measurement for active vibration attenuation applications. An experimental laboratory device is introduced, which consists of a clamped cantilever beam and actuated by bonded piezoelectric actuators. A measurement model is created and experimentally verified for the assessment of beam tip ...

Eel electroplaques provide experimental conditions in which registration of phase plane trajectories (dV/dt vs. V) and impedance measurements with an AC Wheatstone bridge, in conjunction with spike electrogenesis describe quantitatively the ionic processes of the electrogenesis. Thus, these data employing as they do measurements of transients, permit an independent test of the validity of the a...

In this work, an open-circuit fault detection scheme for the converter of a wind power generation system is proposed and evaluated, which robust to false detections under grid disturbance conditions such as sags swells. The energy composed doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) that supplies electrical through electronics based on neutral point-clamped topology in back-to-back configuration (NPC...

The liver forms as part of digestive system. Despite the essential functions of the liver, little is known about its early embryonic development. The clamped s819 mutant was identified in a forward genetic screen for mutations causing defects in endodermal organogenesis in zebrafish. At 44 h post-fertilisation (hpf), clamped s819 mutant embryos display liver hypoplasia and defects in extrahepat...

The contraction/relaxation responses of thoracic aortal rings clamped with two clamping pressures to potassium chloride (KC1), noradrenaline and carbachol were studied using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to ascertain endothelial lacerations. Clamp A had the tip pressure PA = 0.60 N/mm2 and clamp B PB = 5.16 N/mm2. In 15 Wistar albino rats, weighing 328 +/- 19 g (mean +/- SD), the thoraci...

The liver forms as part of digestive system. Despite the essential functions of the liver, little is known about its early embryonic development. The clamped s819 mutant was identified in a forward genetic screen for mutations causing defects in endodermal organogenesis in zebrafish. At 44 h post-fertilisation (hpf), clamped s819 mutant embryos display liver hypoplasia and defects in extrahepat...