Post-stroke 'pushing' behaviour appears to be caused by impaired perception of vertical in the roll plane. While pushing behaviour typically resolves with stroke recovery, it is not known if misperception of vertical persists. The purpose of this study was to determine if perception of vertical is impaired amongst stroke survivors with a history of pushing behaviour. Fourteen individuals with c...

Salmonella plasmid virulence (spv) genes are organized into two transcriptional units: one formed by the spvR gene and the other by the spvA, spvB, spvC and spvD genes. Transcription of both units is activated by SpvR, a regulatory protein of the LysR family. The effect of RpoS, a stationary phase-associated sigma factor, on the expression of spv genes was studied using lacZ transcriptional fus...

Conductive atomic force microscopy ~C-AFM! and surface photovoltage ~SPV! microscopy were used to investigate local electronic structure in p-type GaN. C-AFM imaging revealed locally reduced forwardand reverse-bias conductivity near threading dislocations. In addition, regions near threading dislocations demonstrated significantly enhanced surface photovoltage response when compared to regions ...

Abstract Nine Ghanaian private banks collapsed during the country’s 2017–19 financial crisis. Apart from public audits that revealed liquidity problems and large portfolios of non-performing loans, crisis generated vibrant debate on ‘indigenous banks’ as integral to national economic sovereignty. At centre these debates was a contested central bank-led project inject equity in five struggling t...

A nonconventional approach is proposed for the measurement of surface photovoltage (SPV) signals over very wide ranges in photon energy and time. Regimes AC, DC, combined AC–DC measurements are defined applied characterization a β-Ga2O3 crystal by transient modulated SPV spectroscopy, spectroscopy mode Kelvin probe single-pulse transients from 10 ns to 1000 s with same electrode. Numerous elect...

The purpose of this study was to investigate how experts in motor skills requiring a fine postural control perceive their body orientation with few gravity based sensory cues. In Experiment 1, expert gymnasts and controls had to detect their body tilt when pitching at a velocity of 0.05 deg.s(-1), in two conditions of body restriction (strapped and body cast altering the somatosensory cues). Co...

This paper addresses the issue of Lagrangian transport in the Stratospheric Polar Vortex (SPV). The first part of the paper analyzes SPV data from the ECMWF using the technique of Lagrangian Descriptors (LDs, developed over the years by some of the authors of this paper and their collaborators) for a specific time period in September 2002. A three-mode kinematic model which possesses the gross ...

We apply a causal inference-based framework to test and quantify previously suggested relationships between Northern Hemisphere blocking, upward wave-activity fluxes stratospheric polar vortex (SPV) variability using reanalysis data. show that the influence of blocking on is entirely mediated by fluxes, as classical view would suggest. However, pathway not completely straightforward. In contras...

Production of clean, green solar PV (SPV) power in developing countries now becomes a trend because their economic and technical benefits. Therefore, generating maximum out the SPV is key searchable area. The must produce at its terminal possible power. To reach to power, point tracker used conjunction with SPV. Extracting from under varying partial shading condition one important factor perfor...