The study of 14 normal young men by glucose titration procedures has defined the magnitude of splay in this population, differing from previously reported data in its unexpected deviation from the line of theoretic unity high on the titration curve. Compared to these normal subjects, a group of glucosuric men could be divided into two subclasses, those with normal maximal rate of glucose reabso...

We present the long-time dynamics of unidirectionally coupled identical Kuramoto oscillators in a ring, when each oscillator is influenced sinusoidally by a single preassigned oscillator. In this situation, for a large system with N ≥ 5, it is well known that the synchronized states and the splay-state are the only stable equilibria by Gershgorin’s theorem and linear stability analysis, whereas...

It is proposed that the randomly diluted elastic network of Hooke's-law central-force springs in two dimensions may have a hitherto unrecognized splay-rigid phase in which the bulk and shear moduli vanish but the Frank elastic constant, K, is nonzero. Exponents for the associated splay-rigidity percolation and torsional resistance are estimated by series-expansion techniques. These exponents ar...

A bistable liquid crystal display based on the bend and splay configurations has been demonstrated. This display can be switched between the bend and splay deformation in a three-electrode configuration and has infinite bistable lifetime. It also has wide viewing angles, excellent contrast ratios, and very fast selection. Selection electric pulse duration of 50 ms can be used to switch this dis...

An experimental and theoretical study of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) confined in cylinders with degenerate planar boundary conditions elucidates LCLC director configurations. When the Frank saddle-splay modulus is more than twice the twist modulus, the ground state adopts an inhomogeneous escaped-twisted configuration. Analysis of the configuration yields a large saddle-splay mo...

Networks of coupled phase oscillators play an important role in the analysis emergent collective phenomena. In this article, we introduce generalized m-splay states constituting a special subclass phase-locked with vanishing mth order parameter. Such typically manifest incoherent dynamics, and they often create high-dimensional families solutions (splay manifolds). For general class oscillator ...

SplayNets are a distributed generalization of the classic splay tree data structures. Given a set of communication requests and a network comprised of n nodes, such that any pair of nodes is capable of establishing a direct connection, the goal is to dynamically find a (locally routable) binary tree topology, which connects all nodes and optimizes the routing cost for that communication pattern...