The growth enhancing effects of forest fertilizer is considered to level off within 10 years of the application, and be restricted to one forest stand rotation. However, fertilizer induced changes in plant community composition has been shown to occur in the following stand rotation. To clarify whether effects of forest fertilization have residual long-term effects, extending into the next rota...

A system identification (SI) problem of high-rise buildings is investigated under restricted data environments. The shear and bending stiffnesses of a shear-bending model (SB model) representing the high-rise buildings are identified via the smart combination of the subspace and inverse-mode methods. Since the shear and bending stiffnesses of the SB model can be identified in the inverse-mode m...

Posterior capsular contracture is a common cause of shoulder pain in which the patient presents with restricted internal rotation and reproduction of pain. Increased anterosuperior translation of the humeral head occurs with forward flexion and can mimic the pain reported with impingement syndrome; however, the patient with impingement syndrome presents with normal range of motion. Initial mana...

Brain regions involved in mental rotation were determined by assessing increases in fMRI activation associated with increases in stimulus rotation during a mirror-normal parity-judgment task with letters and digits. A letter-digit category judgment task was used as a control for orientation-dependent neural processing unrelated to mental rotation per se. Compared to the category judgments, the ...

Introduction Cervical spine abnormalities can affect the ear vessels and or nerves with different mechanisms. Ear dysfunctions following cervical spine injuries can be manifested as hearing loss, vertigo, or tinnitus. Usually, cervical spine injuries can cause pain and Range of Motion (ROM) limitation. The major objective of this study was to determine which cervical ROM limitation was accompan...

Introduction: Super-rotation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the four substantial atmospheres possessed by solid bodies in the solar system. The slowly rotating planet, Venus, and moon, Titan, are both well-known to have atmospheres that rotate substantially more quickly than does the solid surface underneath. The more rapidly rotating planets, Mars and Earth, exhibit less spectacular global supe...

Spatially resolved velocity profiles are presented for nine faint field galaxies in the redshift range 0.1 ∼ < z ∼ < 1, based on moderate–resolution spectroscopy obtained with the Keck 10 m telescope. These data were augmented with high–resolution Hubble Space Telescope images from WFPC2, which provided V and I photometry, galaxy type, orientation, and inclination. The effects of seeing, slit w...

The measurement of d coefficients from second-harmonic efficiencies in crystal spheres is studied. KH2PO4 is used as a reference for measurements in spheres and with the Maker-fringes technique. As an example, unknown d coefficients in an orthorhombic mannitol, C6H14O6, in which large coefficients of optical rotation have recently been measured, are determined as d123 = 0.06(2) pm V −1 and comp...

Kirsty Hannam,1,* David A. Powell,1 Ilya V. Shadrivov,1 and Yuri S. Kivshar1,2 1Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia 2National Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia (Received 23 January 2014; revised manuscript recei...

We report a method to determine the four Stokes parameters of each spectral component in a broadband terahertz (THz) pulse by using a continuously rotating analyzer and a standard THz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) instrument. A complete characterization of the polarization state at each frequency is obtained through a single time-domain measurement. Our method requires no specialized THz e...