The effect of small deviations from a Maxwellian equilibrium on turbulent momentum transport in tokamak plasmas is considered. These non-Maxwellian features, arising from diamagnetic effects, introduce a strong dependence of the radial flux of cocurrent toroidal angular momentum on collisionality: As the plasma goes from nearly collisionless to weakly collisional, the flux reverses direction fr...

Reflex behavior of Hermissenda in response to visual and rotational stimuli is described. It is shown that repeated association of light with rotation modifies the subsequent responses of the animals to light. This modification does not occur after the same period of light or rotation alone. The effect of the associative training is strongly dependent on the amount of daily light with which the...

Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders.  There are many documents about the effects of oxidative stress in Parkinson’s disease etiology. Angiotensin II activates NADPH dependent oxidases and causes superoxides formation.  Peganum harmala L. extract, which has angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory effect, is considered to evaluate oxidative stress inhi...

Residuated lattices form the algebraic counterpart of substructural logics [4]. Rotation construction for t-norms has been introduced in [9] and has been generalized to arbitrary residuated posets in [7]. The reader is referred also to [13, 6, 5]. The rotationannihilation construction has been introduced in [10, 7]. The rotation construction has proved fundamental in the structural description ...

The paper presents an application of the asymmetry approach to spirooxindoles via Brevicolline, Cinchonidine or Cinchonine catalyzed one-pot multicomponent synthesis. Brevicolline, in comparison with Cinchonidine or Cinchonine, catalyzes the reaction of isatins, acetylacetone/ethyl 3-oxobutanoate and malononitrile, with the formation of spiro[oxindole-3,4'-4'H-pirane] derivatives in an opticall...

In this paper, we discuss rotation number on the invariant curve of a one parameter family of outer billiard tables. Given a convex polygon η, we can construct an outer billiard table T by cutting out a fixed area A from the interior of η. T is piece-wise hyperbolic and the polygon η is an invariant curve of T under the billiard map φ. We will show that, if β ∈ η is a periodic point under φ wit...

We compute the generalized Lefschetz number of orientation-preserving selfhomeomorphisms of a compact punctured disk, using the fact that homotopy classes of these homeomorphisms can be identified with braids. This result is applied to study Nielsen-Thurston canonical homeomorphisms on a punctured disk. We determine, for a certain class of braids, the rotation number of the corresponding canoni...

A celebrated theorem by Herman and Yoccoz asserts that if the rotation number α of a C∞-diffeomorphism of the circle f satisfies a Diophantine condition, then f is C∞-conjugated to a rotation. In this paper, we establish explicit relationships between the Ck norms of this conjugacy and the Diophantine condition on α. To obtain these estimates, we follow a suitably modified version of Yoccoz’s p...

A simple graphical method is proposed to distinguish between two-state and gradual alterations in DNA conformation from circular dichroic spectra. The method is advantageous particularly to identify two-state conformational isomerizations which exhibit low degree of cooperativity. The usefulness of the method is illustrated on the examples of two synthetic DNA molecules which isomerize due to t...