The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of interpersonal interactions between players on the regulation of ball passing velocity in the team sport of futsal. For this purpose 28 sequences of play, in which passes were performed between outfield players, were selected from an elite futsal competition and analyzed using TACTO software. Relative angles between attackers and defender...

Experiments in two awake untrained squirrel monkeys were performed to study the velocity storage mechanism during fast rise of OKN slow phase velocity. This was done by testing the monkey's capability to perform OKN in response to a stationary-appearing stroboscopically illuminated stripe pattern of a horizontally rotating drum. Nystagmus was initially elicited during constant illumination last...

1. Single-unit responses to whisker deflections were studied in the rat somatosensory cortex (SI) under urethan anesthesia. 2. Experiments were concerned primarily with cortical layer V neurons, by selecting those units that 1) displayed initially positive biphasic spikes with an amplitude of at least 2 mV, 2) were located between 1,000 and 1,500 pm below the cortical surface of whisker C3 repr...

Capturing non-Newtonian power-law drops by horizontal thin fibers with circular cross‐ section in a quiescent media can be studied in this chapter. The case is simulated using volume of fluid (VOF) method providing a notable reduction of a computational cost. Open source OpenFOAM software is applied to conduct the simulations. This model is an extension of the one developed earlier by Lorenceau...

This paper proposes a novel vertical handoff algorithm between WLAN and CDMA networks to enable the integration of these networks. The proposed vertical handoff algorithm assumes a handoff decision process (handoff triggering and network selection). The handoff trigger is decided based on the received signal strength (RSS). To reduce the likelihood of unnecessary false handoffs, the distance cr...

1. Velocity thresholds of neurones in the displacement-sensitive pathway of the crayfish were investigated using a stimulus programme of ramp fluid movements, with a range of velocities from 0-01-55 cm s" at the source (in both forward and backward directions). 2. The velocity of the stimulus was calculated to produce particle movements with velocities of between 0-001-1-0cms" at the receptors ...

AIMS Neuropad is a simple visual indicator test, with moderate diagnostic performance for diabetic peripheral neuropathy. As it assesses sweating, which is a measure of cholinergic small nerve fibre function, we compared its diagnostic performance against established measures of both large and, more specifically, small fibre damage in patients with diabetes. METHODS One hundred and twenty-sev...

An experimental programme is presented, examining the turbulent wake of a monopile foundation in a current. Velocity was recorded across an extensive domain downstream of a model monopile in a 0.5 m deep basin, using an acoustic Doppler velocimeter array. The distribution of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is examined across the entire domain. Tests were undertaken using several combinations of ...

We review the mechanical origin of auditory-nerve excitation, focusing on comparisons of the magnitudes and phases of basilar-membrane (BM) vibrations and auditory-nerve fiber responses to tones at a basal site of the chinchilla cochlea with characteristic frequency approximately 9 kHz located 3.5 mm from the oval window. At this location, characteristic frequency thresholds of fibers with high...

We determined two-dimensional motion discrimination contours in the spatio-temporal frequency plane to characterize the mechanisms underlying velocity perception. In particular, we wanted to determine whether there exist mechanisms tuned specifically to velocity, rather than separable mechanisms tuned to spatial and temporal frequency. A 4-AFC paradigm was used to determine spatio-temporal freq...