1. Exaggerated morphological structures that evolve under sexual selection have the potential to alter functional relationships and hence affect aspects of movement. These effects may be more pronounced when the exaggerated morphological trait is coupled to the propulsive system. 2. Many studies have examined the effects of sexually selected traits on whole-organism performance, but few have do...

Total fission cross sections and charge distributions of the final fission fragments have been measured at GSI in inverse kinematics for the reactions 208Pb+ p,d at 500AMeV and 182Ta+ p at 300, 500, 700 and 1000AMeV. These data are used to investigate dissipative and transient effects at low deformation and its possible dependences with temperature and fissility.

The T-odd distribution functions contributing to transversity properties of the nucleon and their role in fueling nontrivial contributions to azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering are investigated. We use a dynamical model to evaluate these quantities in terms of HERMES kinematics. We point out how the measurements of cos 2φ asymmetry may indicate the presence of T-o...

background: obesity is growing rapidly in our country. nutrition is an important associate of obesity. the aim of this study was to determine the association between fruit and vegetable intake with the waist circumference and the body mass index (bmi) among young female university students.   methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 236 healthy female university students aged betwee...

This paper presents an elegant contact dynamics model in screw bondgraph form. It can model the contact between any two objects of finite curvature. It does so by defining a Gauss frame on the surfaces of both objects in the points that are closest to each other. Then it describes how the Gauss frames move as the objects move relative to each other. This is called the contact kinematics. The co...

In this paper we shall present the progress of the ROBOCOQ project. This project aims to design a prototype of autonomous biped based on the avian model, capable of exploring cluttered environments. This design relies on experimental kinematics data obtained from the quail. The experimental protocol used to reconstruct a 3D model is presented in this paper as well as the procedure and criteria ...

We present a composite material with embedded sensing and actuation that can perform permanent shape changes by temporarily varying its stiffness and applying an external moment. Varying stiffness is a complementary approach to actuator-chain based approaches that can be accomplished using a large variety of means ranging from heat, electric field or vacuum. A polycaprolactone (PCL) bar provide...

We consider the problem of reconstmcting a continuous function on R" from certain values of its spherical means. A novel aspect of our approach is the use of geometric inversion to recast the inverse spherical mean problem as an inverse Radon transform problem. W define WO spherical mean inverse problems the entire problem and the causal problem. We then present a dual filtered backprojection a...