Human health and comfort under whole-body vibration depend on the level, frequency, direction, location, and duration of the acceleration. The international standard ISO 2631-1 [1] specifies a method of evaluation of the effect of exposure to vibration on humans by weighting the root-mean square (r.m.s.) acceleration with human vibration sensitivity curves. There are six frequency-weighting cur...

In uniaxial tensile experiments in vitro mechanical properties of the different parts of porcine aortic valves, i.e. the leaflets, the sinus wall and the aortic wall, have been dealt with. Tissue strips cut in different directions were investigated. The collagen bundles in the leaflets show a stiffening effect and cause a marked anisotropy: within the physiological range of strains the largest ...

Expecting motion in some particular direction biases sensitivity to that direction, which speeds detection of motion. However, the neural processes underlying this effect remain underexplored, especially in the context of normal aging. To address this, we examined younger and older adults' performance in a motion detection task. In separate conditions, the probability was either 50% or 100% tha...

In this study, we examine some properties of Salkowski curves in $\mathbb{E}^{3}$. We then make sense the angle $(nt)$ parametric equation curves. provide relationship between and binormal vector Darboux Through angle, obtain unit direction curve. Finally, calculate modified orthogonal frames with both curvature torsion give relationships Frenet frame

1. We tested quantitatively the responses of 147 middle temporal (MT) cells to light and dark bars moving at different speeds ranging over a 1,000-fold range (0.5-512 deg/s). 2. We derived the following quantities from the speed-response (SR) curves obtained for opposite directions of motion. Speed selectivity was characterized by the maximum response, optimum speed, upper cutoff speed, respons...

Multichannel microphone array designs often use the localisation curves that have been derived for 2-0 stereophony. Previous studies showed that side and rear perception of phantom image locations require somewhat different curves. This paper describes an experiment conducted to determine localisation curves using an octagonal loudspeaker setup. Various signals with a range of interchannel time...

Characteristic curves like isophotes, reflection lines and reflection circles are well–established concepts which have been used for automatic fairing of both parametric and piecewise linear surfaces. However, the result of the fairing strongly depends on the choice of a particular family of characteristic curves: isophotes or reflection lines may look perfect for a certain orientation of viewi...

Derivatives and normals of rational Bézier curves and surface patches are discussed. A nonuniformly scaled hodograph of a degree m × n tensor-product rational surface, which provides correct derivative direction but not magnitude, can be written as a degree (2m−2) × 2n or 2m× (2n−2) vector function in polynomial Bézier form. Likewise, the scaled normal direction is degree (3m−2)× (3n−2). Effici...

The activity of single cells in the motor cortex was recorded while monkeys made arm movements in eight directions (at 45 degrees intervals) in a two-dimensional apparatus. These movements started from the same point and were of the same amplitude. The activity of 606 cells related to proximal arm movements was examined in the task; 323 of the 606 cells were active in that task and were studied...