S. G. MONISMITH, E. A. COWEN, H. M. NEPF, J. MAGNAUDET AND L. THAIS Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4020, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Parsons Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge MA 02139, USA Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, UMR-CNRS-INPT-UPS 5502, Toulouse 31400, France Lab...

This paper is written in honor of Dr. John R. Paul for three reasons. First, in recognition of his contributions as a philosopher and educator in preventive medicine, and especially, the emphasis he placed on epidemiology as the basic discipline in prevention. To this end he developed and popularized the concepts of clinical epidemiology and serological epidemiology. Second, in tribute to the r...

In order to better constrain models for simulating the environmental effects of large-scale arrays of Wave Energy Converters (WECs), we have performed laboratory experiments using five 1:33 scale, commercially-designed, point-absorber WECs. Multiple array configurations (1-device, 3-device, and 5device) were subjected to a wide range of wave conditions—both regular waves and fully-directional s...

Background Traditionally, embryo incubation and assessment daily has been under a light microscope, these observations are inevitably restricted to specific times and considering that the development of the embryo is a dynamic process, several critical stages in between observations may go unnoticed. For this reason, the new technologies, time lapse monitoring, have focused on the research for ...

The mesoscopic neural activity of neocortex appears consisting of the dynamical formation of spatially extended domains in which widespread cooperation supports brief epochs of patterned oscillations. These “packets of waves” have properties of location, size, duration and carrier frequencies in the beta-gamma range (12−80 Hz). They re-synchronize, through a sequence of repeated collective phas...

COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), although primarily a disease of the lungs, exhibits secondary systemic manifestations. The skeletal muscles are of particular interest because their function (or dysfunction) not only influences the symptoms that limit exercise, but may contribute directly to poor exercise performance. Furthermore, skeletal muscle weakness is of great clinical impor...

The study of faulting and earthquake processes requires direct and near-fi eld observations at the focal depth. Deep mines provide a unique opportunity to make such observations. The linked DAFSAM (Drilling Active Faults Laboratory in South African Mines)-NELSAM (Natural Earthquake Laboratory in South African Mines) projects focus on building an earthquake laboratory in deep gold mines in South...