Rocking curve imaging (RCI) is a quantitative version of monochromatic beam diffraction topography that involves using a two-dimensional detector, each pixel of which records its own 'local' rocking curve. From these local rocking curves one can reconstruct maps of particularly relevant quantities (e.g. integrated intensity, angular position of the centre of gravity, FWHM). Up to now RCI images...

In this study, we investigate how two persons (dyads) coordinate their movements when performing cyclical motion patterns on a rocking board. In keeping with the Leading Joint Hypothesis (Dounskaia, 2005), the movement dynamics of the collaborating participants were expected to display features of a prime mover with low movement variability. Fourteen subject pairs performed the task in nine amp...

AIMS Current imaging techniques attempt to identify responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). However, because CRT response may depend upon several factors, it may be clinically more useful to identify patients for whom CRT would not be beneficial even under optimal conditions. We aimed to determine the negative predictive value of a composite echocardiographic index evaluating atr...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of hands and knees position and pelvic rocking exercises on the incidence of fetal occiput posterior position at birth. DESIGN Multicentre randomised controlled trial. SETTING Seven maternity units in New South Wales, Australia, encompassing teaching hospitals and district general hospitals. PARTICIPANTS 2547 pregnant women at 37 weeks' gestation; 1292 r...

The rhythmic creaking of the rocking chair broke silence moment. chair's weathered features matched those old man quietly. size seemed mammoth for his emaciated frame, wasted away by age. Rocking in was favorite pastime, sitting on shaded front porch family farmhouse, surrounded prairie grassland stippled with wildflower pastels. He barely noticed silhouette town wooded horizon, its church and ...

This is the web based application, here we analysis the network traffic which occurs when the player plays an online game. Here we are going to trace the current position of the player to rectify the traffic while playing the game. There are different types of measures for different applications, those can be normalized and compared with one another but my application can resolve the inconsiste...

I n PNAS, Nelson et al. present intriguing evidence that challenges the fundamental tenets of genetics (1). It has long been assumed that the inherited contribution to phenotype is embedded in DNA sequence variations in, and interactions between, the genes endogenous to the organism, i.e., alleles derived from parents with some degree of de novo variation. This assumption underlies most genetic...

The experimental seismic testing of a 1/5-length scale model, slender bridge steel truss pier was conducted to investigate the use of a controlled rocking approach as a means of seismic protection. The controlled rocking approach allows the pier to uplift from its base, partially isolating the structure, while passive energy dissipation devices (steel yielding devices, fluid viscous dampers) ar...

A torque measurement system was added to a widely used hip wear simulator, the biaxial rocking motion device. With the rotary transducer, the frictional torque about the drive axis of the biaxial rocking motion mechanism was measured. The principle of measuring the torque about the vertical axis above the prosthetic joint, used earlier in commercial biaxial rocking motion simulators, was shown ...

The ORNL Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (USANS) facility at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HIFR) has been recently upgraded, using the BonseHart technique. Si(111) triple-bounce channel-cut single crystals have been used for both the monochromator and analyzer. The total width of the rocking curve of the analyzer is about 1.6" and the wavelength of the primary neutron beam is 2.59 ,~,. It...