Heart rate telemetry is frequently used to estimate daily activity in children and to validate other methods. This study compared the accuracy of heart rate monitoring, pedometry, triaxial accelerometry, and uniaxial accelerometry for estimating oxygen consumption during typical children's activities. Thirty Welsh children (mean age 9.2 +/- 0.8 yr) walked (4 and 6 km/h) and ran (8 and 10 km/h) ...

Statistics of lensed arcs in clusters of galaxies serve as a powerful probe of both the non-sphericity and the inner slope of dark matter halos. We develop a semi-analytic method to compute the number of arcs in triaxial dark matter halos. This combines the lensing cross section from the Monte Carlo ray-tracing simulations, and the probability distribution function (PDF) of the axis ratios eval...

Taking the standard size coal block samples defined by ISRM as research objects, both properties of methane diffusion of coal block under triaxial compressive stress and characteristic influences caused by methane pressure were systematically studied with thermo-fluid-solid coupling with triaxial servocontrolled seepage equipment of methane-containing coal. The result shows the methane diffusio...

We present a detailed non-spherical modeling of dark matter halos on the basis of a combined analysis of the high-resolution halo simulations (12 halos with N ∼ 10 particles within their virial radius) and the large cosmological simulations (5 realizations with N = 512 particles in a 100hMpc boxsize). The density profiles are well approximated by a sequence of the concentric triaxial distributi...

The consequences of nuclear black holes for the structure and dynamics of stellar spheroids are reviewed. Slow growth of a black hole in a pre-existing core produces a power-law cusp, ρ ∼ r −γ , with γ ≈ 2, similar to the steep cusps seen in faint elliptical galaxies. The weaker cusps in bright ellipticals, γ ∼ < 1, may result from ejection of stars by a coalescing black-hole binary; there is m...

One of the aims of Identification and Prevention of Dietary- and Lifestyle-Induced Health Effects in Children and Infants (IDEFICS) validation study is to validate field measures of physical activity (PA) and energy expenditure (EE) in young children. This study compared the validity of uniaxial accelerometry with heart-rate (HR) monitoring vs. triaxial accelerometry against doubly labeled wate...

It has long been known that the hysteresis loops of sand under cyclic loading gradually become asymmetric with increase strain amplitudes, but a symmetrical loop is widely assumed in current practice. Despite several methods which have proposed recently to consider irregularities, previous research lacked quantitative study on effects determination shear modulus G and reduction curve G/Gmax. Th...

Figure rotation substantially increases the fraction of stochastic orbits in triaxial systems. This increase is most dramatic in systems with shallow cusps showing that it is not a direct consequence of scattering by a central density cusp or black hole. In a recent study of stationary triaxial potentials (Valluri & Merritt 1998) it was found that the most important elements that define the str...

Context. Over the last decade a series of results have lent support to the hypothesis of the existence of a long thin bar in the Milky Way with a half-length of 4.5 kpc and a position angle of around 45◦. This is apparently a very different structure from the triaxial bulge of the Galaxy. Aims. In this paper, we analyse the stellar distribution in the inner 4 kpc of the Galaxy to see if there i...