Critical stresses necessary to generate dislocation glide loops in Czochralski silicon containing oxide precipitates have been investigated. Using three-point bending and etching techniques, it was possible to determine the minimum shear stress required to generate dislocation glide loops from controlled distribution of precipitates under constant-stress conditions. The generation of glide disl...

The glide is a major part of starts, turns and the stroke cycle in breaststroke. Glide performance, indicated by the average velocity, can be improved by increasing the glide efficiency, that is, the ability of the body to minimise deceleration. This paper reviews the factors that affect glide efficiency. In the first part of the review the sources of resistive force are reviewed including surf...

Pitch glide is a continuously rising or falling characteristic of pitch contour in tonal languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, and is critical for tonal speech comprehension. An interesting but unanswered question is whether pitch glide can be automatically processed at a preattentive stage in the brain. To address this question, we used iterated rippled noise (IRN) as a linguistically meaningle...

Audiovisual interaction was found on the perception of frequency glide of linear sweep tones. The auditory and visual stimuli were designed to simulate the formant trajectories of the syllables that induced the McGurk effect. Linear sweep tones were used for the auditory stimuli. For the visual stimuli, moving spheres were used. The frequency glide was differently perceived depending on the sph...

In flies, the choice between neuronal and glial fates depends on the asymmetric division of multipotent precursors, the neuroglioblast of the central nervous system and the IIb precursor of the sensory organ lineage. In the central nervous system, the choice between the two fates requires asymmetric distribution of the glial cell deficient/glial cell missing (glide/gcm) RNA in the neuroglioblas...

Microtubules are built of tubulin subunits assembled into hollow cylinders which consist of parallel protofilaments. Thus, motor molecules interacting with a microtubule could do so either with one or several tubulin subunits. This makes it difficult to determine the structural requirements for the interaction. One way to approach the problem is to alter the surface lattice. This can be done in...