Peduncle saddle pack tag A padded harness will fit around the tail stock of the whale at the narrowest portion of the peduncle just before the fluke insertion point. To deploy the belt, a cantilevered pole mounted on the bow of a small inflatable will drop a spring loaded armature on the caudal terminus of the whale (Figure 1). Once triggered, the armature’s sickle shaped arms will close, latch...

The hormesis phenomena or J-shaped dose response have been accepted as a common phenomenon regardless of the involved biological model, endpoint measured and chemical class/physical stressor. This paper first introduced a mathematical dose response model based on systems biology approach. It links molecular-level cell cycle checkpoint control information to clonal growth cancer model to predict...

In this paper, we continue our studies of the phase space geometry and dynamics associated with index k saddles (k > 1) of the potential energy surface. Using Poincaré-Birkhoff normal form (NF) theory, we give an explicit formula for a "dividing surface" in phase space, i.e., a codimension one surface (within the energy shell) through which all trajectories that "cross" the region of the index ...

The tetraalkoxy and dialkoxy substituted 21,23-dithiaporphyrins and 21-monothiaporphyrins, respectively, having methoxy, butoxy, octyloxy and dodecyloxy substituents at b-thiophene carbons were synthesized and characterized. The X-ray structure was solved for tetrabutoxy substituted 21,23-dithiaporphyrin and it exhibited a more planar structure compared with unsubstituted S2TPP, whereas the dim...

We reveal and give a theoretical explanation for spiral-like structures of periodicity hubs in the biparameter space of a generic dissipative system. We show that organizing centers for "shrimp"-shaped connection regions in the spiral structure are due to the existence of Shilnikov homoclinics near a codimension-2 bifurcation of saddle-foci.