THE pharmacology of general anesthetics is the essence of anesthesiology, and the quest to understand how volatile anesthetics work has occupied anesthetic pharmacologists for more than a century. Immobility in response to a painful stimulus, usually an incision in the clinic or a tail clamp in the laboratory, is used as a measurable endpoint for quantifying anesthetic potency that is much more...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the trends of the dynamic behavior of a single iced conductor. Attention is focused not only on the initiation of galloping but also on boundaries where a periodic plunge or torsional motion emerge. Trends with respect to the iced conductor’s eccentricity and its inertia to mass ratio are particularly stressed. They are shown to be complicated becau...