Two classes of rotaxanes are described in which photoinduced processes modulate a large-amplitude motion. In the first type, E–Z-isomerization of a fumaric diamide unit to a maleic diamide leads to a substantial weakening of the hydrogen bonds between the diamide and the macrocyclic ring that surrounds it. As a result, the rate of the pirouetting motion is increased approximately by six orders ...

Starting with the experiments of Ramachandran and Gregory (Nature, 275, 55-56, 1978), several psychophysical studies in apparent motion (AM) have established that the perception of motion is significantly impaired at equiluminance. Still debated, however, is whether color alone can resolve ambiguities in AM. We report here on several psychophysical experiments, the quantitative results of which...

Multihypothesis motion compensation is extended into the transform domain by using a redundant wavelet transform to produce multiple predictions that are diverse in transform phase. The corresponding inverse transform implicitly combines the multihypothesis predictions into a single spatial-domain prediction for motion compensation such that no side information is needed to describe the combina...

Many analysis goals involving human motion capture (MoCap) data require the comparison of motion patterns. Pioneer works in visual analytics recently recognized visual comparison as substantial for visual-interactive analysis. This work reflects the design space for visual-interactive systems facilitating the visual comparison of human MoCap data, and presents a taxonomy comprising three primar...

We present an algorithm and a hardware architecture for block-based motion estimation that involves transforming video sequences from a multibit to a one-bit/pixel representation and then applying conventional motion estimation search strategies. This results in substantial reductions in arithmetic and hardware complexity and reduced power consumption, while maintaining good compression perform...

this article deals with the study of the two-dimensional mixed convection magnetohydrodynamic (mhd) boundary layer of stagnation-point flow over a stretching vertical plate in porous medium filled with a nanofluid. the model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of brownian motion and thermophoresis in the presence of thermal radiation. the skin-friction coefficient, nusselt number an...

History of Film The history of film is the historical development of the medium known variously as cinema, motion pictures, film, or the movies. The history of film spans over a hundred years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day. Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass med...

All moving objects possess six degrees of freedom – three linear and three rotary. The task of a linear motion guideway is to eliminate, as closely as possible, five of these degrees of freedom, leaving a single rotary or linear axis of motion. Air bearings are the purest and highest performance means of defining linear or rotary motion, and have substantial advantages over conventional mechani...

BACKGROUND Although the effectiveness of manipulative therapy for treating back and neck pain has been demonstrated, the validity of many of the procedures used to detect joint dysfunction has not been confirmed. Practitioners of manual medicine frequently employ motion palpation as a diagnostic tool, despite conflicting evidence regarding its utility and reliability. The introduction of variou...

oceanographic images obtained from environmental satellites by a wide range of sensors allow characterizing natural phenomena through different physical measurements. for instance sea surface temperature (sst) images, altimetry data and ocean color data can be used for characterizing currents and vortex structures in the ocean. the purpose of this thesis is to derive a relatively complete frame...