BACKGROUND Evaluation of motor deficits in rodents is mostly restricted to limb motor tests that are often high stressors for the animals. NEW METHOD To test rodents for orofacial motor impairments in a stress-free environment, we established the pasta gnawing test by measuring the biting noise of mice that eat a piece of spaghetti. Two parameters were evaluated, the biting speed and the biti...

Nuclear pasta, that is an inhomogeneous distribution of nuclear matter characterised by non-spherical clustered structures, expected to occur in a narrow spatial region at the bottom inner crust neutron stars, but width pasta layer strongly model dependent. In framework compressible liquid-drop model, we use Bayesian inference analyse constraints on sub-saturation energy functional and surface ...

One of the fundamental issues in HRI is to enable robust mappings of the robot’s low-level perceptions of the world and the symbolic terms used by humans to describe the world. When a shared symbol grounding is achieved (when human and robot use the same terms to denote the same physical entities) a two way interaction is enabled. This interaction is an important step towards robots assisting h...

We propose a mathematical model for the process of dry pasta cooking with specific reference to spaghetti. Pasta cooking is a two-stage process: water penetration followed by starch gelatinization. Differently from the approach adopted so far in the technical literature, our model includes free boundaries: the water penetration front and the gelatinization onset front representing a fast stage ...

Fanny M Passot, Virginie Calderon, Gwennaele Fichant, David Lane 7 and Franck Pasta 8 9 Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires 10 UMR 5100 CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier 11 118 Route de Narbonne 12 31062 Toulouse Cedex France 13 14 † present adress 15 Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie 16 UMR 8621 CNRS/Université Paris-Sud 11 17 15, rue Georges Clémenceau 18 F 91405 ORSAY Ced...

A simple gas-liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the measurement of cholesterol and some plant sterols, such as campesterol, ~-sitosterol and avenasterol, in pasta products. Samples were saponified, without prior extraction of lipids, and the concentrated unsaponifiables analysed directly by gas liquid chromatography. The results were evaluated statistically, and they showed th...

This contribution presents a review of results obtained from computations of approximate equations of motion for the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice. These approximate equations are obtained as a finite-dimensional Birkhoff normal form. It turns out that in many cases, the Birkhoff normal form is suitable for application of the KAM theorem. In particular this proves Nishida’s 1971 conjecture stating t...

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Thermalization in nonlinear systems is a central concept in statistical mechanics and has been extensively studied theoretically since the seminal work of Fermi, Pasta, and Ulam. Using molecular dynamics and continuum modeling of a ring-down setup, we show that thermalization due to nonlinear mode coupling intrinsically limits the quality factor of nanomechanical graphene drums and turns them i...