A new view of mental rotation in humans is presented. Rather than being a perceptual phenomenon, mental rotation of objects is supposed to be an imagined action in the sense that its only difference to real action is the absence of motor output. A series of experiments is reported which shows that the difference in speed between mental and manual rotation are negligible and that performing rota...

mental imagery remains a contentious issue among researchers. Questionnaires are widely used for measuring mental imagery (for a reviews, see McKelvie, 1995; and Richardson, 1994). Of these, the most predominant are the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ; Marks, 1973) that measures vividness of visual imagery, and the Betts’ Questionnaire Upon Mental Imagery (Betts’ QMI; Sheehan, 1...

In this research, the effect of rotation on the free vibration is investigated for the size-dependent cylindrical functionally graded (FG) nanoshell by means of the modified couple stress theory (MCST). MCST is applied to make the design and the analysis of nano actuators and nano sensors more reliable. Here the equations of motion and boundary conditions are derived using minimum potential ene...

[1] The centrifugal interchange instability is the primary driver of radial plasma transport in the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Most previous theoretical treatments of this instability have ignored the role of the acceleration current and have assumed that the divergence of the centrifugal drift current in the magnetosphere is closed by Pedersen currents in the underlying ionosphere, ...

For a hermetic reciprocating compressor of the household refrigerator, it is not economic to set a separate oil pump, because of cost and space demands. Its oil supply system is mainly promoted by a reed pump and the spiral groove on the shaft. When the compressor is operating, the oil climbs up the inner wall of the reed pump because of the centrifugal force. The height to which the oil could ...

Robust and fast traffic sign recognition is very important but difficult for safe driving assistance systems. This study addresses fast and robust traffic sign recognition to enhance driving safety. The proposed method includes three stages. First, a typical Hough transformation is adopted to implement coarse-grained location of the candidate regions of traffic signs. Second, a RIBP (Rotation I...

We present a miniature motorized endoscopic probe for Optical Coherence Tomography with an outer diameter of 1.65 mm and a rotation speed of 3,000-12,500 rpm. This is the smallest motorized high speed OCT probe to our knowledge. The probe has a motorized distal end which provides a significant advantage over proximally driven probes since it does not require a drive shaft to transfer the rotati...

In this work we solve the set of hydrodynamical equations for accretion disks in the spherical coordinates (r,θ,ϕ) to obtain the explicit structure along θ direction. We study a two-dimensional advective accretion disc in the presence of thermal conduction. We find self-similar solutions for an axisymmetric, rotating, steady, viscous-resistive disk. We show that the global structure of an advec...