Results In NP, the average measure of thoracic kyphosis was 37.8°±11.2. In comparison to the normal position, the extent of thoracic kyphosis actually increases when the patient tries actively to emphasize it, both during an inspiratory (43.7±10.4), and an expiratory (45.6±39.7), phase. The average area of the hump doesn’t change significantly: 6.4±3.5 in NP, 6.5±3.5 in SC, 6.5±3.0 during KI, 6...

the dependence of the lateral distribution of cherenkov light in simulated extensive air showers to the energy and the mass of the primary cosmic rays has been studied. it has been shown that a previous claim about mass independent proportionality of shower energy to the total cherenkov photon number is not valid in energies below eeas ~ 1014 ev. we have found that the core distance of the so c...

We present a 35 day ASCA observation of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy Akn 564, yielding an on-source exposure ∼ 1 Ms. The ASCA observation was part of a multiwavelength AGN Watch monitoring campaign. The soft X-ray light curve binned to 256 s reveals trough-to-peak flux variations up to a factor of ∼ 16 and changes in the fractional amplitude of variability across the observation. Akn 564 sh...

BACKGROUND: Animal breeds are often recognized through their specific characteristics, nevertheless, the breeds' anatomical and biochemical characteristics have not considered yet in many of the researches done on one-humped camels. There are some particular differences in camel breeds due to different climate conditions and rearing necessity. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the current study was to com...

A non-trivial temperature evolution of superconductivity including a temperature-induced phase transition between two superconducting phases or even a time-reversal symmetry breaking order parameter is in principle expected in multiband superconductors such as iron-pnictides. Here we present scanning tunnelling spectroscopy data of LiFeAs which reveal two distinct superconducting phases: at = 1...

We present an analysis of the X-ray variability properties of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Ton S180, based upon a 12-day continuous observation with ASCA. Examination of the light curves reveals flux variations of a factor of 3.5 in the 0.7–1.3 keV band and 3.9 in the 2–10 keV band. Time-resolved spectroscopy, using approximately daily sampling, reveals that the broad “soft hump” component ...

We consider the situation of rearranging freight trains in a shunting yard with a hump and several tracks. Here, an elementary shunting operation is to push a all cars of one track over the hump. On the way back to the tracks the cars can be guided individually to an arbitrary track. The goal is to create one or several trains that have their cars in a particular order. We measure the efficienc...