Large-amplitude semidiurnal temperature variations in the polar mesopause: evidence of a pseudotide

Nature ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 324 (6095) ◽  
pp. 347-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Walterscheid ◽  
G. G. Sivjee ◽  
G. Schubert ◽  
R. M. Hamwey
Keyword(s):  
Large Amplitude ◽  
Temperature Variations

The electrophysiology of the somatic muscle cells of Ascaris suum and Ascaridia galli

Parasitology ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. T. Wann
Keyword(s):  
Large Amplitude ◽  
Action Potentials ◽  
Ascaris Suum ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Ascaridia Galli ◽  
Somatic Muscle ◽  
Temperature Variations ◽  
Electrophysiological Properties ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Input Conductance

The electrophysiological properties of the bag region of the somatic muscle cells of Ascaris suum and Ascaridia galli were studied using intracellular techniques. For Ascaris muscle cells, the mean resting membrane potentials at 20 and 37°C were −29·9 and −33·8 mV respectively, and the average input conductance was 2·12 μS. For the muscle cells of A. galli similar values were obtained. For example, the mean input conductance of these cells was 2·84 μS at 20°C. Healthy Ascaris muscle cells at near physiological temperatures show both spontaneous depolarizing and hyperpolarizing activity and, in cells close to the nerve cords, rhythmic large amplitude (approximately 30 mV) action potentials are observed. Such action potentials, which are very sensitive to temperature variations, originate in the muscle cells. In contrast the muscle cells of Ascaridia are quiescent. The rhythmic action potentials of Ascaris are resistant to tetrodotoxin (TTX) (≤ 10−6 M), verapamil (10−4 M) and cinnarizine (10−4 M), but are blocked irreversibly by 22, 23 dihydroavermectin B1a (10−7 to 5 × 10−6 M). GABA, and the GABAA receptor agonists, muscimol and isoguvacine, hyperpolarize and increase the input conductance of both Ascaris and Ascaridia muscle cells. The antagonists+bicuculline and picrotoxin were not effective in modulating the spontaneous hyper polarizations of Ascaris muscle cells, and picrotoxin (10−4 M) was not effective in altering the response to GABA (5 × 10−6 M). The significance of the results is discussed briefly.

81Br and 127I NQR and Phase Transitions in CH3NH3 HgBr3 and CH3NH3 HgI3

1990 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 343-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromitsu Terao ◽  
Tsutomu Okuda
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Large Amplitude ◽  
Molecular Motions ◽  
Temperature Variations ◽  
Halogen Atoms ◽  
Resonance Frequencies ◽  
Successive Phase

Abstract The 81Br and 127I NQR spectra were recorded in CH3NH3 HgBr3 and CH3NH HgI3 , respectively. In addition to a phase transition at 338 K, successive phase transitions take place at 127 ± 1, 184±1 and 243±5 K in CH3NH3 HgBr3. On heating, the resonance lines of CH3NH3HgI3 disappear near a phase transition at 328 K and one line appears above this temperature. The temperature variations of the resonance frequencies of the terminal halogen atoms in both crystals are extraordinarily steep. This indicates the large amplitude molecular motions expected for the CH3NH3 cations which are linked to the terminal halogen atoms through N-H ··· X type H-bonding.

Intermittent chaos in the Bray–Liebhafsky oscillator. Temperature dependence

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 9770-9778 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. N. Bubanja ◽  
S. Maćešić ◽  
A. Ivanović-Šašić ◽  
Ž. Čupić ◽  
S. Anić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Large Amplitude ◽  
Small Amplitude ◽  
Relaxation Oscillations ◽  
Temperature Variations ◽  
Intermittent Chaos

Intermittent oscillations as a chaotic mixture of large amplitude relaxation oscillations, grouped in bursts and small-amplitude sinusoidal ones or even quiescent parts between them known as gaps, were found and examined in the Bray–Liebhafsky (BL) reaction performed in CSTR under controlled temperature variations.

On nearly-commensurable periods in the restricted problem of three bodies, with calculations of the long-period variations in the interior 2:1 case

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 197-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Message
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Solution ◽  
Periodic Solutions ◽  
Large Amplitude ◽  
Restricted Problem ◽  
Small Amplitude ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Numerical Integrations ◽  
Period Variations ◽  
The Mean

An analytical discussion of that case of motion in the restricted problem, in which the mean motions of the infinitesimal, and smaller-massed, bodies about the larger one are nearly in the ratio of two small integers displays the existence of a series of periodic solutions which, for commensurabilities of the typep+ 1:p, includes solutions of Poincaré'sdeuxième sortewhen the commensurability is very close, and of thepremière sortewhen it is less close. A linear treatment of the long-period variations of the elements, valid for motions in which the elements remain close to a particular periodic solution of this type, shows the continuity of near-commensurable motion with other motion, and some of the properties of long-period librations of small amplitude.To extend the investigation to other types of motion near commensurability, numerical integrations of the equations for the long-period variations of the elements were carried out for the 2:1 interior case (of which the planet 108 “Hecuba” is an example) to survey those motions in which the eccentricity takes values less than 0·1. An investigation of the effect of the large amplitude perturbations near commensurability on a distribution of minor planets, which is originally uniform over mean motion, shows a “draining off” effect from the vicinity of exact commensurability of a magnitude large enough to account for the observed gap in the distribution at the 2:1 commensurability.

Observations of the spatial structure of interstellar hydrogen

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 45-46
Author(s):  
Carl Heiles
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Temperature Variations

High-resolution 21-cm line observations in a region aroundlII= 120°,b11= +15°, have revealed four types of structure in the interstellar hydrogen: a smooth background, large sheets of density 2 atoms cm-3, clouds occurring mostly in groups, and ‘Cloudlets’ of a few solar masses and a few parsecs in size; the velocity dispersion in the Cloudlets is only 1 km/sec. Strong temperature variations in the gas are in evidence.

Clean Electron Microscope Substrate Films Used for Micrometeorite Collection and Study

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
D. M. Davies ◽  
R. Kemner ◽  
E. F. Fullam
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
High Altitude ◽  
Amyl Acetate ◽  
Temperature Variations ◽  
Film Forming ◽  
Film Specimen ◽  
Particulate Contaminants

All serious electron microscopists at one time or another have been concerned with the cleanliness and freedom from artifacts of thin film specimen support substrates. This is particularly important where there are relatively few particles of a sample to be found for study, as in the case of micrometeorite collections. For the deposition of such celestial garbage through the use of balloons, rockets, and aircraft, the thin film substrates must have not only all the attributes necessary for use in the electron microscope, but also be able to withstand rather wide temperature variations at high altitude, vibration and shock inherent in the collection vehicle's operation and occasionally an unscheduled violent landing.Nitrocellulose has been selected as a film forming material that meets these requirements yet lends itself to a relatively simple clean-up procedure to remove particulate contaminants. A 1% nitrocellulose solution is prepared by dissolving “Parlodion” in redistilled amyl acetate from which all moisture has been removed.

Information and estimation in image processing

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
B. Roy Frieden
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Optical System ◽  
Large Amplitude ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Direct Approach ◽  
Ill Posed

Despite the skill and determination of electro-optical system designers, the images acquired using their best designs often suffer from blur and noise. The aim of an “image enhancer” such as myself is to improve these poor images, usually by digital means, such that they better resemble the true, “optical object,” input to the system. This problem is notoriously “ill-posed,” i.e. any direct approach at inversion of the image data suffers strongly from the presence of even a small amount of noise in the data. In fact, the fluctuations engendered in neighboring output values tend to be strongly negative-correlated, so that the output spatially oscillates up and down, with large amplitude, about the true object. What can be done about this situation? As we shall see, various concepts taken from statistical communication theory have proven to be of real use in attacking this problem. We offer below a brief summary of these concepts.

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