The present paper adopts as its point of departure the claim by Te Winkel (1866) and Verkuyl (2008) that mental temporal representations are built on the basis of three binary oppositions: Present/Past, Synchronous/Posterior and Imperfect/Perfect. Te Winkel took the second opposition in terms of the absence or presence of a temporal auxiliary zullen ‘will’. However, in a binary system Future lo...

We present PLTplot, a plotting package for PLT Scheme. PLTplot provides a basic interface for producing common types of plots such as line and vector field plots from Scheme functions and data, an advanced interface for producing customized plot types, and support for standard curve fitting. It incorporates renderer constructors, transformers from data to its graphical representation, as values...

Recurrence plots were introduced to help aid the detection of signals in complicated data series. This effort was furthered by the quantification of recurrence plot elements. We now demonstrate the utility of combining recurrence quantification analysis with principal components analysis to allow for a probabilistic evaluation for the presence of deterministic signals in relatively short data l...

The functional principles of a hydrostatic skeleton were combined to obtain a physical model which includes geometry, number and length-tension relationships of the elastic elements in the body wall, internal volume and internal pressure. The model skeleton with pre-set internal volume assumes a certain shape and develops a specific internal pressure in order to minimize the potential energy st...

In the presence of 20 mM PC a strong contraction is produced in glycerol-extracted muscle fibers by ATP and AMP in concentrations as low as 10(-6)M per liter. At low concentrations of nucleotide tension rises very slowly. This rise is interpreted as being due to absorption of nucleotide by the contractile elements. AMP gives an S-shaped tension curve, indicating that the conversion of AMP into ...

Proteins are mostly used to stabilize food emulsions; however, production of protein containing emulsions is notoriously difficult to capture in scaling relations due to the complex behavior of proteins in interfaces, in combination with the dynamic nature of the emulsification process. Here, we investigate premix membrane emulsification and use the Ohnesorge number to derive a scaling relation...

Microscopic observation and micrometric measurements of microarterial vessels in the mesentery of the anesthetized rat, during chemical interference with the vasomotor nerve supply, showed (A) marked (average 25X) hypersensitization to epinephrine; (B) persistent vasoconstriction; and (C) depression or cessation of vasomotion. These and concomitant similar reactions of the precapillary sphincte...

Microscopic observation and micrometric measurements of microarterial vessels in the mesentery of the anesthetized rat, during chemical interference with the vasomotor nerve supply, showed (A) marked (average 25X) hypersensitization to epinephrine; (B) persistent vasoconstriction; and (C) depression or cessation of vasomotion. These and concomitant similar reactions of the precapillary sphincte...