Previous assessment of verticality by means of rod and rod and frame tests indicated that human subjects can be more (field dependent) or less (field independent) influenced by a frame placed around a tilted rod. In the present study we propose a new approach to these tests. The judgment of visual verticality (rod test) was evaluated in 50 young subjects (28 males, ranging in age from 20 to 27 ...

Abstract As an important bearing structure of maglev train, the connecting rod has high requirements for material performance. In this paper, according to structural capacity rod, finite element methodwas used calculate and analyze composite aluminum alloy under two working conditions, so as determine advantages in mechanical properties provide theoretical support design rod.

One hundred twenty-eight 4-month-old infants were habituated to one of several displays that depicted two rod pieces above and below a box. The effects of common motion, background texture, and orientation of the rod pieces on infants’ perception of unity of the partially occluded rod were examined. Infants who viewed displays in which the rod pieces were aligned and presented in front of a tex...

The strength of rod inputs to ganglion cells was assessed in the macaque retina at retinal positions within 3-15 deg eccentricity. The experimental paradigm used temporally modulated heterochromatic lights whose relative phase was varied. This paradigm provided a sensitive test to detect rod input. In parvocellular (PC) pathway cells, the gain of the cone-driven signal decreased with decrease i...

Evidence has accumulated that rod activation under mesopic and scotopic light levels alters visual perception and performance. Here we review the most recent developments in the measurement of rod and cone contributions to mesopic color perception and temporal processing, with a focus on data measured using a four-primary photostimulator method that independently controls rod and cone excitatio...

To investigate how rod signals influence hue perception and how this influence can be incorporated into opponent-color models, we measured the shift of unique-hue loci under dark-adapted conditions compared with cone-plateau conditions. Rod signals produced shifts of all spectral unique hues (blue, green, yellow) but in a pattern that was inconsistent with simple additive combinations of rod an...

Operative procedure The pedicle screws in the proximal site of osteotomy are not connected to the rod to permit spinal shortening in the postoperative course. When a connector is used between a pedicle screw and a rod, the connector is not fixed to the rod to allow it to slide on the rod. When a connector is not used, the rod is only placed in the screw head with reinforcement by some sets of c...

We have synthesized an amphiphilic triblock coil-rod-coil molecule consisting of a rigid aromatic building block and poly(ethylene oxide). The coil-rod-coil molecule was observed to assemble into a cylindrical micelle structure in aqueous solution. Notably, addition of a small amount of a rod-coil-rod molecule into the cylindrical micellar solution can induce the anisotropic gelation due to dyn...

When a natural gas pipeline ruptures, the adjacent automatic line control valves (ALCVs) should close quickly to prevent leakage or explosion. The differential pressure set point (DPS) at each valve location is the main criteria for value setting in ALCV action. If the DPS is not properly adjusted, the ALCV may mistakenly close or it may not take any action at proper time. This study focused on...