We discuss the rotational excitation of small interstellar grains and the resulting electric dipole radiation from spinning dust. Attention is given to excitation and damping of grain rotation by: collisions with neutrals; collisions with ions; “plasma drag”; emission of infrared radiation; emission of electric dipole radiation; photoelectric emission; and formation of H2 on the grain surface. ...

This work is on the influence of rotational component earthquake excitations to response steel structures. In most studies, seismic input being modeled only using translational ground acceleration, while one ignored. was due observation that had minimal effect low-rise buildings. Hence, accelerometers used would not measure it, leading a lack records. Nowadays, technology provides such instrume...

The texture of a rolling circle depicts the translational and rotational components of its motion. In the case of a homogeneous circle, however, visual cues to the rotational component of motion are absent. To examine how the visual system resolves undetermined motion cues, optically neutral circles were displaced so that changes in their orientation were invisible. Contextual cues systematical...

Improved parameters for the description of Rayleigh scattering in air and for the detailed rotational Raman scattering component for scattering by O(2) and N(2) are presented for the wavelength range 200-1000 nm. These parameters enable more accurate calculations to be made of bulk molecular scattering and of the Ring effect for a variety of atmospheric radiative transfer and constituent retrie...

The performance of bicycle helmets was investigated in oblique impacts with a simulated road surface. The linear and rotational accelerations of a headform, fitted with a compliant scalp and a wig, were measured. The peak rotational accelerations, the order of 5 krad s when the tangential velocity component was 4 m s, were only slightly greater than in comparable direct impact tests. Oblique im...

INTRODUCTION: A successful surgical outcome in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) depends on multiple factors, including proper rotational and translational alignment of the femoral and tibial components. Small variation in surgical alignment of an implant could potentially have a large impact on knee performance. Several authors have studied the effects of tibial and femoral component’s internal-ex...

Fluid control methods often require surface velocities interpolated throughout the interior of a shape to use the velocity as a feedback force or as a boundary condition. Prior methods for interpolation in computer graphics — velocity extrapolation in the normal direction and potential flow — suffer from a common problem. They fail to capture the rotational components of the velocity field, alt...

In the title compound, C(21)H(20)BrNO(5)S, the thio-phene group is located above the mean plane of the indole ring and displays rotational disorder (i.e. rotation through 180°). The site occupancy of the major component is 0.902 (2), while that of the minor component is 0.098 (2). In the crystal, pairs of weak C-H⋯O inter-actions link the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers.