Torsional nystagmus was noted in a patient with hypothalamic hamartoma. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed an exophytic hypothalamic mass extending into the pre-pontine cistern and abutting ventral mesencephalon. The quickphase of the torsional nystagmus was directed towards the left side, ipsilateral to the side of compression by the hamartoma. Ipsi-lesionally directed pure torsional nystagmu...

Original scientific paper In this paper a systematic exploration of a typical two-stroke slow speed marine diesel propulsion shafting design space is performed. First, a set of the four most influential design parameters is defined, consisting of shafting stiffness, propeller, turning wheel and tuning wheel mass moments of inertia. Then, a full set of 625 design points is defined. For each desi...

The orientation of Listing's Plane (LP) was examined under one-g and zero-g conditions during parabolic flight. Ten healthy subjects participated in the experiment. In zero-g the orientation of LP was consistently altered. LP elevation was tilted backwards by approx. 10 degrees (p=0.003). The azimuth angles of the left and right eyes also diverged in zero-g, with a statistically significant cha...

An interactive computer program was developed for wing flutter analysis in the conceptual design stage. The objective was to estimate the flutter instability boundary of a flexible cantilever wing, when well defined structural and aerodynamic data are not available, and then study the effect of change in Mach number, dynamic pressure, torsional frequency, sweep, mass ratio, aspect ratio, taper ...

Many quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) appear in radio, optical , and X-ray maps, as a bright nuclear sources from which emerge single or double long, thin jets (Thomson et al., 1993). When observed with high angular resolution these jets show structure with bright knots separated by relatively dark regions. High percentages of polarization, sometimes more then 50% in some objects, indic...

In this study, we present conformational energies for a molecular mechanical model (Parm99) developed for organic and biological molecules using the restrained electrostatic potential (RESP) approach to derive the partial charges. This approach uses the simple “generic” force field model (Parm94), and attempts to add a minimal number of extra Fourier components to the torsional energies, but do...

This paper reports the design and simulation of a 4 mm² double differential torsional MEMS accelerometer based on a double-beam configuration. Based on the structure of conventional torsional accelerometers, normally composed of one pair of proof masses and one torsional beam, this work explores the double differential configuration: a torsional accelerometer with two pairs of unbalanced proof ...

Many methods for correcting harmonic partition functions for the presence of torsional motions employ some form of one-dimensional torsional treatment to replace the harmonic contribution of a specific normal mode. However, torsions are often strongly coupled to other degrees of freedom, especially other torsions and low-frequency bending motions, and this coupling can make assigning torsions t...

A World-Wide Web service has been constructed to assist the development of force field parameters extending the AMBER force fields. This service extracts parameters from the standard AMBER force field parameter databases. From a Web-based interface the user can choose between bond, angle and torsional parameters with certain constraints on element and/or atom hybridization. The software constru...

Harms tangent screen, a subjective measurement method of three-dimensional binocular alignment, was compared with search coil recording. Twenty-three patients with unilateral trochlear nerve palsy were measured in nine gaze positions. The two methods correlated best for the horizontal gaze deviation, the vertical gaze deviation, and the vertical incomitance, but there was no correlation for the...