Utilization of conjugated double bonds to engineer the novel folded miniature β-meander type structures, single step transformation of miniature β-meanders into ααγ(4)-hybrid peptide 10/12-helices using catalytic hydrogenation, their solution and single crystal conformations are reported.

A novel type of dual-mode microstrip bandpass filter using degenerate modes of a meander loop resonator has been developed for miniaturization of high selectivity narrowband microwave bandpass filters. A filter of this type having a 2.5% bandwidth at 1.58 GHz was designed and fabricated. The measured filter performance is presented.

It is proved that generalized excursion measures can be constructed via time change of Itô’s Brownian excursion measure. A tightness-like condition on strings is introduced to prove a convergence theorem of generalized excursion measures. The convergence theorem is applied to obtain a conditional limit theorem, a kind of invariance principle where the limit is the Bessel meander.

This paper discusses application of the piecewise sinusoidal (PWS) basis function (BF) over a chain of several wire segments, i.e. as a multiple domain basis functions. The usage of PWS BF is compared to results based on the piecewise linear (PWL) basis functions. An example of meander monopole demonstrates the advantages associated with the PWS BF.

The vulnerability to reentrant wave propagation, its characteristics (period, meander, and stability), the effects of rotational transmural anisotropy, and the control of reentrant waves by small amplitude perturbations and large amplitude defibrillating shocks are investigated theoretically and numerically for models based on high order, stiff biophysically derived excitation equations.

We survey and develop exact random variate generators for several distributions related to Brownian motion, Brownian bridge, Brownian excursion, Brownian meander, and related restricted Brownian motion processes. Various parameters such as maxima and first passage times are dealt with at length. We are particularly interested in simulating process variables in expected time uniformly bounded ov...

AFFILIATIONS: 1. Queens Silvia Children’s Hospital, Göteborg, and Department of Pediatrics, The Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg, Sweden. 2. Erasmus Medical CenterSophia Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 3. Meander Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Amersfoort, the Netherlands. 4. University Medical Center Utrecht, Departm...

A three-dimensional moment analysis defines both particle mobility and the average orientation angle of moving bedload particles in meander bends. Accordingly, under identical bed shear stress and near-bed streamline orientation angle on a side slope, bedload particles of different sizes move in different directions. This sorting mechanism has been verified in the sharp meander bends of Fall Ri...

The long-term discharge evolution of branches of rivers can potentially be derived from inactive and fossil river meanders using relations between discharge and channel width and meander dimensions. This evolution is relevant for the understanding of river dynamics and avulsion, and the resulting changes of downstream flooding risks and shipping conveyance. Unfortunately, digitalisation of infi...