The neural adaptations that accompany strength training have yet to be fully determined. Here we sought to address this topic by testing the idea that strength training might share similar mechanisms with some forms of motor learning. Since ballistic motor learning is accompanied by a shift in muscle twitches induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) toward the training direction, we s...

The “Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift” refers to an anomaly in financial markets. It describes the drift of a firm’s stock price direction earnings surprise for extended period time. Contrary what efficient market hypothesis predicts, does not lead full, instantaneous adjustment prices, but slow, predictable drift. phenomenon has been described at length decades. Numerous studies have investiga...

Measurements of the electric fields, E in the DIII-D tokamak divertor region @J. C. Luxon and L. G. Davis, Fusion Technology 8, Part 2A, 441 ~1985!# are quantitatively consistent with recent computational modeling establishing that E3BT circulation is the main cause of changes in divertor plasmas with the direction of the toroidal magnetic field, BT . Extensive two-dimensional measurements of p...

There is much current interest in modelling suspensions of algae and other microorganisms for biotechnological exploitation, and many bioreactors are of tubular design. Using generalized Taylor dispersion theory, we develop a population-level swimming-advection-diffusion model for suspensions of micro-organisms in a vertical pipe flow. In particular, a combination of gravitational and viscous t...

Classical Stokes’ drift is the small time-averaged drift velocity of suspended nondiffusing particles in a fluid due to the presence of a wave. We consider the effect of adding diffusion to the motion of the particles, and show in particular that a nonzero time-averaged drift velocity exists in general even when the classical Stokes’ drift is zero. Our results are obtained from a general proced...

Fling-step and forward directivity are two important characteristics of near-field earthquakes. Forward directivity occurs when the rupture propagates toward the site and arises in fault‐normal direction for strike‐slip faults. Fling-step is the consequence of permanent ground displacement imposed by near-field earthquakes and arises in strike-slip faults in the strike parallel direction. Fling...