The effects of changes in temperature on primary and secondary endings of isolated cat muscle spindles were investigated under ramp-and-hold stretches and different degrees of pre-stretch. Temperature-induced alterations of the discharge frequency were compared over a temperature range of 25-35 degrees C. Both primary and secondary endings responded to warming with increasing discharge frequenc...

The growing concern about time-dependent performance variations of CMOS devices due to aging-induced delay degradation has increased with shrinking technology dimensions of the devices . One of the main causes of aging is Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI). Modeling NBTI-induced delay at gate level depends on the real stress activity of gate inputs which are related to the workload ap...

We investigate the effect of temperature on structure and dynamics of a colloidal glass created by tethering polymers to the surface of inorganic nanoparticles. Contrary to the conventional assumption, an increase in temperature slows down glassy dynamics of the material, yet causes no change in its static structure factor. We show that these findings can be explained within the soft glassy rhe...

We numerically investigate the transition of the static quark-antiquark string into a static-light meson-antimeson system. Improving noise reduction techniques, we are able to resolve the signature of string breaking dynamics for n f = 2 lattice QCD at zero temperature. We discuss the lattice techniques used and present results on energy levels and mixing angle of the static two-state system. W...

We determine simple analytical conditions for combined radiative and thermal equilibrium between the X-ray emitting plasma and cold reprocessor in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galactic black holes (GBH). These conditions determine the pressure at the transition zone, which is not arbitrary in the static situation. The conditions for static solution are derived analytically for different for...

This paper considers the problem of wear estimation in a standard industrial robot joint. Motivated by the observation that the wear processes in a robot actuator cause an increase of the friction levels in the joint, static friction observations are used to infer the wear levels. An existing static friction model is extended to include the e ects of wear, which are analyzed and modeled. The re...

Hydrogen sulfide is one of the most dangerous contaminants in crude oil and natural gas that have to be removed prior to the transfer and refining. In this study, hydrophobic ionic liquid, i.e. 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium methylflour, [EMIM] [NTf2], was used as scavenger for the reduction of the H2S. Due to its ionic nature, [EMIM] [NTf2] forms nanoemulsion in crude oil media and hence can diss...

Photosynthetic materials form the basis of quantum biology. An important attribute of quantum biology is correlation and coherence of spin states. Such correlated spin states are targets of static magnetic field. In this paper, we report magnetic properties and spectroscopically realizable static magnetic field effect in photosynthetic materials. Two classes of nano-scale assembly of chlorophyl...

In human fingertips, the fingerprint patterns and interlocked epidermal-dermal microridges play a critical role in amplifying and transferring tactile signals to various mechanoreceptors, enabling spatiotemporal perception of various static and dynamic tactile signals. Inspired by the structure and functions of the human fingertip, we fabricated fingerprint-like patterns and interlocked microst...