Abstract Fluorescence-detected linear dichroism microscopy allows observing various molecular processes in living cells, as well obtaining quantitative information on orientation of fluorescent molecules associated with cellular features. Such can provide insights into protein structure, aid development genetically encoded probes, and allow determinations lipid membrane properties. However, qua...

Original scientific paper In this paper, the results of investigations of the temperature field distribution and tool wearing during C60 steel turning are presented. Abrasive wear resistance tests were carried out for cutters made of low-alloy high-speed steel. Steel samples were heat treated, and then were subjected to ion nitriding, TiN coating, or to complex treatment. The influence of cutti...

1. XML and editorial interventions It is generally assumed that scholarly annotated digital texts, be they text-critical editions or linguistically annotated corpora, should be stored in XML to ensure longevity as well as platform and software independence. Furthermore, the TEI Guidelines (SperbergMcQueen and Burnard, 2002) are the de-facto standard for constructing the XML schemas for most suc...

We present two add-ons for Mathematica for teaching mathematics to undergraduate and high school students. These two applications, M@th Desktop (MD) and M@th Desktop Tools (MDTools), include several palettes and notebooks covering almost every field. The underlying didactic concept is so-called ”blended learning”, in which these tools are meant to be used as a complement to the professor or tea...

In the present study, we describe a new type of visuomotor neurons, named tool-responding mirror neurons, which are found in the lateral sector of monkey ventral premotor area F5. Tool-responding mirror neurons discharge when the monkey observes actions performed by an experimenter with a tool (a stick or a pair of pliers). This response is stronger than that obtained when the monkey observes a...