A 45-year-old woman presented with acute vertigo and a vertical gaze palsy. Examination with Frenzel goggles showed that during vertical saccades the eyes were torsionally deviating to the left (counterclockwise from the patient’s point of view) and slowly returned to the initial zero torsion after the saccade (video on the Neurology Web site at www.neurology. org; figure 1). This eye movement ...

This report describes the static and dynamic loading of a 12-inch-wide by 18-inch-deep by 6-foot-long rigid footing, representing the strip footing of a subsurface shelter. Boundary conditions simulated those of a torsionally restrained footing of a flexible arch structure with simulated overburden of 20 feet at one side of the footing. Saturated and partially saturated sand was the test soil. ...

The chiral nature of DNA plays a crucial role in cellular processes. Here we use magnetic tweezers to explore one of the signatures of this chirality, the coupling between stretch and twist deformations. We show that the extension of a stretched DNA molecule increases linearly by 0.42 nm per excess turn applied to the double helix. This result contradicts the intuition that DNA should lengthen ...

We report here the first resonance Raman results of octopus hypsorhodopsin, a species formed photochemically at very low temperatures from visual pigments. A pump-probe technique was used to obtain Raman spectra from samples at 12 degrees K whose photostationary state mixtures were either hypsorhodopsin rich or hysorhodopsin poor. The data strongly suggest that the Schiff-base linkage between t...

In this article‎, ‎a new scheme inspired from collocation method is‎ ‎presented for numerical solution of stiff initial-value problems and Fredholm integral equations of the first kind based on the derivatives of residual function‎. ‎Then‎, ‎the error analysis‎ ‎of this method is investigated by presenting an error bound‎. ‎Numerical comparisons indicate that the‎ ‎presented method yields accur...

background: posttraumatic and/or postsurgical knee stiff ness is one of the orthopedic complications which is difficult to be treated and can affect individual’s life negatively. the aim of this study is to investigate the results of quadricepsplasty in patients with knee stiff ness resulted from femoral fracture. materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional study on all patients with femor...

An elastic model for double-stranded polymers is constructed to study the recently observed DNA entropic elasticity, cooperative extensibility, and supercoiling property. With the introduction of a new structural parameter (the folding angle w), bending deformations of sugar-phosphate backbones, steric effects of nucleotide base pairs, and base-stacking interactions are considered. The comprehe...