Yet each in itself – this was the uncanny, the antiorganic, the life-denying character of them all – each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree – the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death – Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why...

The theory of optical activity presented in an earlier paper has been applied to helical structures, obtaining a compact formula for the residue rotation [ m ' ] ^ . In particular, the theory has been applied to the a-helix, and this theory consists of two parts: firstly the calculation of the magnitude and orientation of the polarisability tensor ellipsoid of the peptide residue from the locat...

Yet each in itself – this was the uncanny, the antiorganic, the life-denying character of them all – each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree – the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death – Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why...

We consider numerically the flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a differentially rotating spherical shell, in a dipolar magnetic field. For infinitesimal differential rotation the flow consists of a super-rotating region, concentrated on the particular field line C just touching the outer sphere, in agreement with previous results. Finite differential rotation suppresses this super-rota...

We calculate the frequency-dependent longitudinal and Hall conductivities Faraday Kerr rotation angles for a single sheet of anisotropic Dirac semimetal protected by nonsymmorphic symmetry in presence Zeeman term coupling to out-of-plane component spin. While causes plane polarization light, anisotropy appearance an elliptically polarized initially linearly beam. The two effects can be combined...

The controlled rotation of acoustically levitated samples is beneficial for analyzing sample properties, e.g., in a recently reported room temperature x-ray diffraction experiment, wherein thin film holders comprising disks with short blades attached around their circumference were utilized. However, the mechanism producing torque and determinant factor direction these planar ultrasonic rotors ...

Recent psychometric results [Mem. Cogn. 29 (2001) 745] have supported a distinction between mental abilities that require a spatial transformation of a perceived object (e.g., mental rotation) and those that involve imagining how a scene looks like from different viewpoints (e.g., perspective taking). Two experiments provide further evidence for and generalize this dissociation. Experiment 1 sh...