The analyses of flagellar movement stimulated by Sir James Gray's (1955) photographic study of the movement of sea-urchin spermatozoa have used sine waves as a convenient mathematical model for the active bending waves of flagella. Machin (1958), following a suggestion of Pringle (1957), outlined an attractively simple model for the mechanical co-ordination of bending elements distributed along...

Sustainability and durability are the key requirements of pavement structure. asphalt structure involves utilization Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) technologies with addition Reclaimed Pavement (RAP), where performance parameters like fatigue fracture resistance properties etc. Utilizing RAP content in mix increases mixing compaction temperature which may degrade asphalt. Hence, numerous studies have r...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs) are a percutaneous alternative to surgical aortic valve replacements and are used to treat patients with aortic valve stenosis. This minimally invasive procedure relies on expansion of the TAVR stent to radially displace calcified aortic valve leaflets against the aortic root wall. However, these calcium deposits can impede the expansion of the de...

Bending of DNA induced by M.Msp I, one of the m5C-DNA methyltransferases, has been investigated using circular permutation analysis. The M.Msp I MTase induced sharp bends in DNA containing its recognition sequence 5'-CCGG-3'which was estimated to be 142+/-4 degrees and 132+/-4 degrees for circularly permuted DNA fragments of 127 and 1459 bp respectively. The bend centre was found to be asymmetr...

A theoretical study of the rigidities of slabs with circular voids oriented in the longitudinal and in the transverse direction is discussed. Equations are presented for predicting the bending and torsional rigidities of the voided slabs. This paper summarizes the results of an extensive literature search and initial review of the current methods of analyzing voided slab. The various methods of...

Waste plastic in low noise asphalt mixtures can be a viable alternative to with polymer modified bitumen. The performance of semi dense (SDA) waste polyethylene (PE) is investigated. cyclic compression test (CCT) and semi-circular bending (SCB) was used for characterization high temperature performance. CCT results revealed that the PmB mixture had shown significantly higher resistance compared...

Using holonomy decomposition, the absence of certain types of cycles in automata has been characterized. In the direction of studying the structure of automata with cycles, this paper focuses on a special class of semi-flower automata and establish the holonomy decomposition of certain circular semiflower automata. In particular, we show that the transformation monoid of a circular semi-flower ...

We investigate the syntactic complexity of certain types of finitely generated submonoids of a free monoid. In fact, we consider those submonoids which are accepted by circular semi-flower automata (CSFA). Here, we show that the syntactic complexity of CSFA with at most one 'branch point going in' (bpi) is linear. Further, we prove that the syntactic complexity of n-state CSFA with two bpis ove...

Supports: Fondation Yves Cotrel pour la recherche en pathologie rachidienne. Institut de France, Paris. SHFJ/CEA Orsay in the frame of the cooperation through IFR 49 INSERM/CNRS France.-Membranous semi circular canals (SCC) modelling based on MRI revealed significant anomalies in IS patients compared to normal subjects-Frequent aplasias located in the lateral canal were found in IS.-We also dis...