When the helicotrema was obstructed in guinea pigs, trapezoidal displacement of the round window membrane produced a trapezoidal microphonic which indicated a unidirectional displacement of the entire length of the basilar membrane. Responses of single auditory nerve fibers to the trapezoidal displacement of the round window membrane were recorded after obstruction of the helicotrema. About 39%...

ECG-gated multislice CT(MSCT)now supports not only morphological but also functional diagnosis. In order to improve accuracy in the functional analysis of cardiac motion, it is important to depict the endocardial and epicardial contours. The present study was conducted to evaluate a method in which contrast medium and physiological saline solution(saline)are injected simultaneously, and the iod...

AIMS Analysis of the morphology of the distal femur, and by extension of the femoral components in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), has largely been related to the aspect ratio, which represents the width of the femur. Little is known about variations in trapezoidicity (i.e. whether the femur is more rectangular or more trapezoidal). This study aimed to quantify additional morphological character...

The perceived slant of a surface relative to the frontal plane can be reduced when the surface is viewed through a frame between the observer and the surface. Aspects of this framing effect were investigated in three experiments in which observers judged the orientations-in-depth of rectangular and trapezoidal surfaces which were matched for pictorial depth. In experiments 1 and 2, viewing was ...

Deriving the analytical structure of fuzzy controllers is very important as it creates a solid foundation for better understanding, insightful analysis, and more e1ective design of fuzzy control systems. We previously developed a technique for deriving the analytical structure of the fuzzy controllers that use Zadeh fuzzy AND operator and the symmetric, identical trapezoidal or triangular input...

ClassSm variable transformationswith integerm for finite-range integrals were introduced by the author (Numerical Integration IV, International series of Numerical Mathematics, Basel, 1993, pp. 359–373) about a decade ago. These transformations “periodize” the integrand functions in a way that enables the trapezoidal rule to achieve very high accuracy, especially with even m. In a recent work b...

Quadrupole mass filters (QMFs) are usually not used to analyze high m/z ions, due to the low frequency resonant circuit that is required to drive them. Here we describe a new approach to generating waveforms for QMFs. Instead of scanning the amplitude of a sine wave to measure the m/z spectrum, the frequency of a trapezoidal wave is digitally scanned. A synchronous, narrow-range (<0.2%) amplitu...

The paper deals with the trapezoidal rule discretization of a class of linear delay differential equations, with a special emphasis on equations with a proportional delay. Our purpose is to analyse the asymptotic properties of the numerical solutions and formulate their upper bounds. We also survey the known results and show that our formulae improve and generalize these results. In particular,...

Are Plurality voting, the Kemeny rule, Approval voting, and the Borda Mean Dichotomy rule all versions of the same voting rule? Yes, in a sense. In an extension of work by Barthélemy and Monjardet [3], we consider functions F that assign real number scoring weights F (R1, R2) to pairs of binary relations on a finite set A of alternatives, serving as symmetric measures of similarity between R1 a...