Miller Fisher first described a temporary limb shaking syndrome (LSS) associated with carotid stenosis in 1962; since then, the diagnosis has been reported regularly though only 48 cases have been recorded so far as per our review and rather than being rare, it seems to be a misrecognized syndrome.[1] However bilateral shaking of lower extremities is a very rare presentation.[2] The clinical fe...

We report the rst three-dimensional molecular dynamics simulation of particle segregation by shaking. Two diierent containers are considered: one cylindrical and another with periodic boundary conditions. The dependence of the time evolution of a test particle inside the material is studied as a function of the shaking frequency and amplitude, damping coeecients and dispersivity. 1 Dynamical pr...

Abstract    Historical monument of Menar-Jonban (shaking tower) is located in the famous city of Isfahan in central Iran. Initial construction of this interesting and unique masonry monument belongs to 700 years ago. This monument has two vibrating circular towers of 7.5 m height. These towers are separated from each other by a distance of 9.2 m and constructed on top of an ancient tomb of 10 m...

BACKGROUND Systemic risk has received much more awareness after the excessive risk taking by major financial instituations pushed the world's financial system into what many considered a state of near systemic failure in 2008. The IMF for example in its yearly 2009 Global Financial Stability Report acknowledged the lack of proper tools and research on the topic. Understanding how disruptions ca...

differentiation to produce a dormant spore (Meisner et al., 2008). Contact-dependent inhibition is a reversible, contact-dependent means by which strains of E. coli induce a nonreplicating state in susceptible cells through direct transfer of two effector proteins (Aoki et al., 2005). These three mechanisms are all characterized by the specific transfer of a limited number of signals in respons...

External wetting poses problems of immediate heat loss and long-term pathogen growth for vertebrates. Beyond these risks, the locomotor ability of smaller animals, and particularly of fliers, may be impaired by water adhering to the body. Here, we report on the remarkable ability of hummingbirds to perform rapid shakes in order to expel water from their plumage even while in flight. Kinematic p...

We introduce random transformations called reversible shaking transformations which we use to design two schemes for estimating rare event probability. One is based on interacting particle systems (IPS) and the other on time-average on a single path (POP) using ergodic theorem. We discuss their convergence rates and provide numerical experiments including continuous stochastic processes and jum...