In the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, the frontal ganglion (FG) plays a key role in control of foregut movements, and constitutes a source of innervation to the foregut dilator muscles. In this work we studied the generation and characteristics of FG motor outputs in two distinct and fundamental behaviours: feeding and moulting. The FG motor pattern was found to be complex, and strongly ...

A finitely generated group $\Gamma$ is called strongly scale-invariant if there exists an injective endomorphism $\varphi: \Gamma \to \Gamma$ with the image $\varphi(\Gamma)$ of finite index in and subgroup $\bigcap\_{n>0}\varphi^n(\Gamma)$ finite. The only known examples such groups are virtually nilpotent, or equivalently, all have polynomial growth. question by Nekrashevych Pete asks whether...

The effect of flaxseed gum (FG) on the rheological and nonlinear stress response behaviors of mixed soy protein isolate (SPI)-flaxseed gum (FG) dispersions were studied. Results showed that the viscosity of the SPI-FG mixed dispersions increased significantly with increase in the FG concentration. Both the shear stress and the apparent viscosity values as a function of shear rate were fitted we...

This paper concerns the problem of output consensus in nonlinear non-minimum phase systems. The main contribution of the paper is to guarantee achieving consensus in the presence of unstable zero dynamics. To achieve this goal, an output redefinition method is proposed. The new outputs of agents are functions of original outputs and internal states and defined such that the dynamics of agents a...

With these assumptions we have T defined for every integer n as a 1-1, onto, bimeasurable transformation. Henceforth we shall assume that every set considered is measurable, i.e. an element of a. We shall say that P is invariant if P(A) =P(TA) for every set A, P is ergodic if P is invariant and if P(U^L_oo TA) = 1 for every set A for which P(A) > 0 , and finally P is strongly mixing if P is inv...

in this paper, we investigate the concept of topological stationary for locally compact semigroups. in [4], t. mitchell proved that a semigroup s is right stationary if and only if m(s) has a left invariant mean. in this case, the set of values ?(f) where ? runs over all left invariant means on m(s) coincides with the set of constants in the weak* closed convex hull of right translates of f. th...