ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691) is known to every schoolboy for his discovery of the law of gaseous elasticity, "Boyle's law". He was one of the foremost "experimental natural philosophers" of his time, an original fellow of the Royal Society of London and author of many works dealing with physics, chemistry, physiology, theology, etc. Not so well known perhaps is that he was created Doctor of Medicin...

disturbances in fibromyalgia syndrome: relationship to pain and depression. Sleep disturbance is a widely reported and debilitating concomitant of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and plays a pivotal role in exacerbating patients reporting of symptoms. Bigatti and colleagues report a longitudinal study that examined self-reported sleep, pain, depression and physical functioning at baseline in FMS pa...

Temperature variation intensively affects parameters of the friction force, particularly the average bristle deflections. In our earlier research work, a temperature dependent friction compensation scheme was developed for serial rigid robot manipulators which was comprised of a temperature dependent viscous friction compensation scheme and a temperature dependent disturbance rejection scheme. ...

The sequence in which disturbance events occur has the potential to affect the structure of ecological communities, but its role has been generally overlooked. Most disturbance studies have focused on the frequency or intensity of disturbance, probably reflecting the influence of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis. To investigate the effects of disturbance sequence on community structure, ...