A Method and an Experimental Setup for Measuring the Self-Noise of Piezoelectric Hydrophones

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-421
Author(s):  
R. Krishnakumar ◽  
R. Ramesh
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Experimental Setup

Self-Propulsion of a Capsule on a Viscous Surface

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark McLellan ◽  
Mingxuan Fan ◽  
Z. C. Feng
Keyword(s):  
Piezoelectric Actuator ◽  
Mechanical Model ◽  
Shear Thickening ◽  
Interfacial Interaction ◽  
The Self ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Interfacial Force

We propose a mechanical model for a capsule containing a piezoelectric actuator. The interfacial interaction between the capsule and a surface is assumed to be viscous. Nonlinearity in the interfacial force such as shear thickening is assumed to be present. When periodic excitations are applied to the piezoelectric actuator, the capsule is shown to propel itself. The self-propulsion is confirmed through an experimental setup.

Criterion for Preventing Self-Loosening of Preloaded Cap Screws Under Transverse Cyclic Excitation

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianjie Yang ◽  
Sayed A. Nassar ◽  
Zhijun Wu
Keyword(s):  
Closed Form ◽  
Test Procedure ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
The Self ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Transverse Loading ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Transverse Excitation ◽  
Key Variables

In this paper, a novel criterion is developed for preventing the self-loosening of preloaded threaded cap screws under cyclic transverse loading. For a known cyclic excitation, the system parameters are used in the formulation of a closed form solution for the minimum fastener preload required for preventing self-loosening. The effect of several key variables is investigated; this includes bearing and thread friction coefficients, cap screw grip length, thread pitch, material, and cyclic amplitude of the transverse excitation. An experimental setup and test procedure are established. Comparison between the experimental and analytical clamp load variation results shows that the proposed criterion can accurately predict the requirements for preventing self-loosening.

scholarly journals Pecunia non olet: on the self-selection into (dis)honest earning opportunities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai A. Konrad ◽  
Tim Lohse ◽  
Sven A. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Self Selection

AbstractWe study self-selection into earning money in an honest or dishonest fashion based on individuals’ attitudes toward truthful reporting. We propose a decision-theoretic framework where individuals’ willingness to pay for honest earnings is determined by their (behavioral) lying costs. Our laboratory experiment identifies lying costs as the decisive factor causing self-selection into honest earning opportunities for individuals with high costs and into cheating opportunities for those prepared to misreport. Our experimental setup allows us to recover individual lying costs and their distribution in the population.

scholarly journals Light-Induced Ring Pattern in a Dye-Doped Nematic Liquid Crystal

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 5285
Author(s):  
Marcel G. Clerc ◽  
Gregorio González-Cortés ◽  
Paulina I. Hidalgo ◽  
Lucciano A. Letelier ◽  
Mauricio J. Morel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Phase Modulation ◽  
Order Parameter ◽  
Liquid Crystal Cell ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Coherent Beams ◽  
Light Beams

The use of dye-doped liquid crystals allows the amplification of the coupling of light and liquid crystals. Light can induce the self-organization of the molecular order. The appearance of ring patterns has been observed, which has been associated with phase modulation. However, the morphology and dynamics of the ring patterns are not consistent with self-modulation. Based on an experimental setup with two parallel coherence beams orthogonal to a liquid crystal cell, one of which induces photo-isomerization and the other causes illumination, the formation of ring patterns is studied. To use these two coherent beams, we synthesize methylred methyl ester as a dye-dopant, which is photosensitive only to one of the light beams, and a commercial E7 liquid crystal as a matrix. Based on a mathematical model that accounts for the coupling between the concentration of the cis-state and the order parameter, we elucidate the emergence of the rings as forming patterns in an inhomogeneous medium. The bifurcation diagram is analytically characterized. The emergence, propagation of the rings, and the establishment of the ring patterns are in fair agreement with the experimental observations.

Formulation of a Criterion for Preventing Self-Loosening of Threaded Fasteners Due to Cyclic Transverse Loading

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianjie Yang ◽  
Sayed Nassar ◽  
Zhijun Wu
Keyword(s):  
Test Procedure ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
The Self ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Transverse Loading ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Threaded Fasteners ◽  
Transverse Excitation ◽  
Key Variables

In the paper, a novel criterion is developed for preventing the self-loosening of preloaded threaded fasteners under cyclic transverse loading. For a known cyclic excitation, the system parameters are used in the formulation of a closed form solution for the minimum fastener preload required for preventing self-loosening. The effect of several key variables is investigated; this includes bearing and thread friction coefficients, bolt grip length, thread pitch, material, and the cyclic amplitude of the transverse excitation. An experimental setup and test procedure is established. Comparison between the experimental and analytical clamp load variation results shows that the proposed criterion can accurately predict the requirements for preventing self-loosening.

scholarly journals Self-Evaporation Dynamics of Quantum Droplets in a 41K-87Rb Mixture

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 866
Author(s):  
Chiara Fort ◽  
Michele Modugno
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Free Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Three Body ◽  
Evaporation Dynamics

We theoretically investigate the self-evaporation dynamics of quantum droplets in a 41K-87Rb mixture, in free-space. The dynamical formation of the droplet and the effects related to the presence of three-body losses are analyzed by means of numerical simulations. We identify a regime of parameters allowing for the observation of the droplet self-evaporation in a feasible experimental setup.

Problem behavior in autism spectrum disorders: A paradigmatic self-organized perspective of network structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Tonello ◽  
Luca Giacobbi ◽  
Alberto Pettenon ◽  
Alessandro Scuotto ◽  
Massimo Cocchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Critical Equilibrium ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Acute Agitation ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.

The Nature of Rapidly Extracted Phycocyanin from the Blue-Green Alga Plectonema Boryanum

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
M. Kessel ◽  
R. MacColl
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Analytical Ultracentrifugation ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Subunit Structure ◽  
Blue Green Alga ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Blue Green Algae ◽  
Cacodylate Buffer

The major protein of the blue-green algae is the biliprotein, C-phycocyanin (Amax = 620 nm), which is presumed to exist in the cell in the form of distinct aggregates called phycobilisomes. The self-assembly of C-phycocyanin from monomer to hexamer has been extensively studied, but the proposed next step in the assembly of a phycobilisome, the formation of 19s subunits, is completely unknown. We have used electron microscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation in combination with a method for rapid and gentle extraction of phycocyanin to study its subunit structure and assembly.To establish the existence of phycobilisomes, cells of P. boryanum in the log phase of growth, growing at a light intensity of 200 foot candles, were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.0, for 3 hours at 4°C. The cells were post-fixed in 1% OsO4 in the same buffer overnight. Material was stained for 1 hour in uranyl acetate (1%), dehydrated and embedded in araldite and examined in thin sections.

Interrelationship of the cellular distribution and secretion of regular structure (RS) protein in Bacillus licheniformis nm 105

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 712-713
Author(s):  
Xiaorong Zhu ◽  
Richard McVeigh ◽  
Bijan K. Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Bacillus Licheniformis ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Culture Supernatant ◽  
Regular Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cellular Distribution ◽  
Structural Protein ◽  
Laboratory Cultures

A mutant of Bacillus licheniformis 749/C, NM 105 exhibits some notable properties, e.g., arrest of alkaline phosphatase secretion and overexpression and hypersecretion of RS protein. Although RS is known to be widely distributed in many microbes, it is rarely found, with a few exceptions, in laboratory cultures of microorganisms. RS protein is a structural protein and has the unusual properties to form aggregate. This characteristic may have been responsible for the self assembly of RS into regular tetragonal structures. Another uncommon characteristic of RS is that enhanced synthesis and secretion which occurs when the cells cease to grow. Assembled RS protein with a tetragonal structure is not seen inside cells at any stage of cell growth including cells in the stationary phase of growth. Gel electrophoresis of the culture supernatant shows a very large amount of RS protein in the stationary culture of the B. licheniformis. It seems, Therefore, that the RS protein is cotranslationally secreted and self assembled on the envelope surface.

Self-Compassion and Quality of Life in Adults Who Stutter

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2097-2108
Author(s):  
Robyn L. Croft ◽  
Courtney T. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Adults Who Stutter ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify levels of self-compassion in adults who do and do not stutter and to determine whether self-compassion predicts the impact of stuttering on quality of life in adults who stutter. Method Participants included 140 adults who do and do not stutter matched for age and gender. All participants completed the Self-Compassion Scale. Adults who stutter also completed the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering. Data were analyzed for self-compassion differences between and within adults who do and do not stutter and to predict self-compassion on quality of life in adults who stutter. Results Adults who do and do not stutter exhibited no significant differences in total self-compassion, regardless of participant gender. A simple linear regression of the total self-compassion score and total Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering score showed a significant, negative linear relationship of self-compassion predicting the impact of stuttering on quality of life. Conclusions Data suggest that higher levels of self-kindness, mindfulness, and social connectedness (i.e., self-compassion) are related to reduced negative reactions to stuttering, an increased participation in daily communication situations, and an improved overall quality of life. Future research should replicate current findings and identify moderators of the self-compassion–quality of life relationship.

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