A fixed-wing aircraft that is capable of low airspeed, high angle of attack flight can serve an expanded range of mission goals. A typical propeller-driven small unmanned aircraft can be equipped with an engine that provides greater thrust than airplane weight; in post-stall states, the aircraft then depends on propeller backwash over the tail for control moment generation. Due to this dependen...

This work explores the possible roles of active tails for steady-state legged-locomotion. A series of simple models are proposed which capture the dynamics of an idealized running system with an active tail. The models suggest that the control objectives of injecting energy into the system and stabilizing body-pitch can be effectively decoupled via proper tail design: a long, light tail. Thus t...

We consider a two-dimensional semimartingale reflecting Brownian motion (SRBM) in the nonnegative quadrant. The data of the SRBM consists of a two-dimensional drift vector, a 2×2 positive definite covariance matrix, and a 2×2 reflection matrix. Assuming the SRBM is positive recurrent, we are interested in tail asymptotic of its marginal stationary distribution along each direction in the quadra...

In this data article, 146 villagers (exposed group) were randomly selected from the workers who involved in the e-wastes recycling directly as a daily job in Tianjin. Control group, including 121 villagers, came from another town without e-waste disposal sites. Chromosomal aberrations (CA) and cytokinesis blocking micronucleus (CBMN) were performed to detect the cytogenetic effect for each subj...

Consider options on a nonnegative underlying random variable with arbitrary distribution. In the absence of arbitrage, we show that at any maturity T , the large-strike tail of the Black-Scholes implied volatility skew is bounded by the square root of 2|x|/T , where x is log-moneyness. The smallest coefficient that can replace the 2 depends only on the number of finite moments in the underlying...

This paper provides analytical insights into the hypothesis that fish exploit resonance to reduce the mechanical cost of swimming. A simple body-fluid fish model, representing carangiform locomotion, is developed. Steady swimming at various speeds is analysed using optimal gait theory by minimizing bending moment over tail movements and stiffness, and the results are shown to match with data fr...

The comet assay is considered to be a rapid and sensitive procedure for quantitating DNA damage in mammalian cells. In this article, to interpret its outcomes adequately, its power to detect low level genotoxicity and factors affecting its power were reviewed. Although the development of initial lesions into alkali-labile sites and/or SSBs through repairing events is an important factor to supp...

To clarify genotoxic effects of occupational exposure to antineoplastic drugs in Japan, we examined DNA damage, assessed by the comet assay, in 121 female nurses and 46 female clerks working at three hospitals in the northeast of Japan. The comet assay is considered to be a sensitive and rapid method for DNA strand break detection in individual cells, and tail length and tail moment are used as...