Torturers' Charter: An Insight into the Castlereagh Diplock Conveyer-Belt System

Nanotube in a periodic potential: A conveyer belt for electrons

We consider a carbon nanotube gated slightly away from the half-filled π-band, in the presence of an externally applied periodic potential. We show that the electron states can become locked by the potential when the electron density (counted from half-filling) corresponds to a rational number of electrons per potential period. At such densities, excitation gaps open up in the spectrum. When ga...

Mitophagy: New Insight into the Cardiovascular Aging  

Changes in phosphorus biogeochemistry along an estuarine salinity gradient: The iron conveyer belt

We used sequential extractions to quantify different forms of particulate phosphorus (PP) in sediments along the salinity gradient of the Patuxent River estuary. About 50–90% of the PP was phosphate bound to iron oxides (Fe-P), and 8–30% was organic P (org-P). Loosely sorbed phosphate (sorb-P), detrital apatite, and authigenic plus biogenic apatite each made up ,10% of the PP. Suspended sedimen...

Charter on medical professionalism: putting the charter into practice.

The following letters from the readers of Annals represent just the kind of debate about professional ethics we had hoped the physician charter would engender. Seven members of the Medical Professionalism Project have responded accordingly. Although we could not hope to address every issue raised, one does seem salient throughout: the apparent conflict between a patient-centered ethic of care a...

Toward Application of an Active Fence for Object Detection, Manipulation and Alignment on Conveyer Belt

This paper presents a novel approach for orienting an object on conveyer belt utilizing an Active Fence. The Active fence was implemented with low cost sensory system used for tracking the contact/collision force generated from interaction between the Active Fence and the object. A generalized mechanical model of the collision/contact event is developed and basic relations between impact signat...