Effects of leading-edge defects of the NACA 0015 airfoil on aerodynamic performance with various Reynolds number by Ulfa Hanifah Nurhaliza, James Julian, Fitri Wahyuni, Waridho Iskandar

“…Based on the velocity streamlines, vortices can be found at the defect cavity, and the vortex at the defective airfoil seems larger than the smooth airfoil.…”
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Numerical Study on Flow and Heat Transfer Mechanisms in the Heat Exchanger Channel with V-Orifice at Various Blockage Ratios, Gap Spacing Ratios, and Flow Directions by Amnart Boonloi, Withada Jedsadaratanachai

“…The purposes of the design are to reduce the pressure loss, increase the vortex strength, and increase the turbulent mixing of the flow. …”
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Study of the Pressure Drop and Flow Field in Standard Gas Cyclone Models Using the Granular Model by Nabil Kharoua, Lyes Khezzar, Zoubir Nemouchi

“…Friction has been observed to be important at the vortex finder wall, the bottom of the conical-part wall, and the interface separating the outer and the core streams. …”
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Effect of Impeller Inlet Geometry on Cavitation Performance of Centrifugal Pumps Based on Radial Basis Function by Shuwei Zhang, Renhui Zhang, Sidai Zhang, Junhu Yang

“…The pressure pulsation is affected by the vortex out of the impeller and the falling-off and collapsing of the cavitation bubbles. …”
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Numerical Analysis on the Effects of Binary Interaction between Typhoons Tembin and Bolaven in 2012 by Zhipeng Xian, Keyi Chen

“…In this paper, a typical case of this type, typhoons Tembin and Bolaven, occurred in the western North Pacific in August 2012, was selected to study how one typhoon impacts the track and intensity of the other one. The vortex of Tembin or Bolaven and the monsoon circulation were removed by a TC bogus scheme and a low-pass Lanczos filter, respectively, to carry out the numerical experiments. …”
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Flexible terahertz beam manipulation and convolution operations in light-controllable digital coding metasurfaces by Min Jia, Chao Zhao, Hui Wang, Weiran Sun, Yuncheng Lu

“…We also achieve dynamic modulation of vortex electromagnetic waves based on wireless light-controllable coding metasurfaces. …”
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Hydrodynamic Performance of an Oscillating Water Column Device Installed in an Offshore Wind Turbine by Chuanli Xu, Lei Ding, Yuting Sun, Zhen Liu

“…Additionally, flow characteristics and vortex dynamics around the device were presented for better understanding the energy capture process of the hybrid device. …”
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Polar mesospheric ozone loss initiates downward coupling of solar signal in the Northern Hemisphere by Annika Seppälä, Niilo Kalakoski, Pekka T. Verronen, Daniel R. Marsh, Alexey Yu. Karpechko, Monika E. Szelag

“…This pathway is not constrained to the polar vortex. Rather, a subtropical route initiated by a changing wind shear plays a key role. …”
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High-order optical Hall effect at the tight focus of laser radiation by V.V. Kotlyar, S.S. Stafeev, E.S. Kozlova

“…It is shown that when focusing a linearly polarized optical vortex with unit topological charge, four local subwavelength regions are formed in the focal plane, in which directions of the longitudinal projection of the spin angular momentum are opposite in the neighboring regions. …”
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Vortices in dipolar Bose–Einstein condensates by Bland, Thomas, Lamporesi, Giacomo, Mark, Manfred J., Ferlaino, Francesca

“…Phys. 18, 1453-1458 (2022)], we thoroughly investigate vortex properties in the three-dimensional dominantly dipolar regime, where beyond-mean-field effects are crucial for stability, and investigate the interplay between trap geometry and magnetic field tilt angle.…”
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Design and Prototyping of a Dust Extraction System with a Suppression Mechanism: A Case Study of Limestone Dust on Small Scale Mines by Kambasu Bowen

“…The designed dust collection system comprises of the hood for capturing the dust from a point source, a cyclone for separating dust using centrifugal force, a hopper for breaking the vortex and an airtight container for collecting the dust. …”
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Morphometric Changes in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease who Died Related to Diabetes Mellitus, Arterial Hypertension and Obesity by Ivette Gómez Fernández, Adys Castro Barberena, Greta Margarita Arrechea García, Georgina Jiménez Estrada, Javier Martínez Navarro, Domingo Fuentes Febles

“…There was a decrease in all morphometric variables in both kidneys, highlighting the thickness of the renal cortex.<br /> <strong>Conclusions:</strong> there was a relationship between hypertension, diabetes mellitus and obesity with renal morphometric variables.…”
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Cholinergic Potentiation of Restoration of Visual Function after Optic Nerve Damage in Rats by Mira Chamoun, Elena G. Sergeeva, Petra Henrich-Noack, Shaobo Jia, Lisa Grigartzik, Jing Ma, Qing You, Frédéric Huppé-Gourgues, Bernhard A. Sabel, Elvire Vaucher

“…To this end, we evaluated for 4 weeks the effect of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor donepezil on brightness discrimination, visually evoked potentials, and visual cortex reactivity after a bilateral and partial optic nerve crush in adult rats. …”
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Translaminar synchronous neuronal activity is required for columnar synaptic strengthening in the mouse neocortex by John Vargas-Ortiz, Lin Lin, Vena K. Martinez, Rong-jian Liu, Rachel Babij, Zhe Ran S. Duan, Sam Wacks, Liyuan Sun, Amanda Wang, Sajida Khan, John Lee Soto-Vargas, Natalia V. De Marco García, Alicia Che

“…Abstract Synchronous neuronal activity is a hallmark of the developing mouse primary somatosensory cortex. While the patterns of synchronous neuronal activity in cortical layer 2/3 have been well described, the source of the robust layer 2/3 activity is still unknown. …”
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Anodal tDCS and virtual reality gait rehabilitation in individuals with chronic stroke: a case series report by Aracely Marks, Shelley Oliveira Barbosa, Daniella Napoli, Susan E. D'Andrea

“…The anodal stimulation was targeted at the ipsilesional motor cortex, specifically over the primary motor cortex (M1) area corresponding to the C3/C4 locations in the 10–20 EEG system. …”
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A Novel Rat Infant Model of Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Reveals New Insight into the Molecular Biology and Epileptogenesis in the Developing Brain by Carola Wormuth, Anna Papazoglou, Christina Henseler, Dan Ehninger, Karl Broich, Britta Haenisch, Jürgen Hescheler, Rüdiger Köhling, Marco Weiergräber

“…The model had a survival rate of >80% and exhibited characteristic spontaneous recurrent electrographic seizures (SRES) in both the hippocampus and cortex that persisted into adulthood. Using implantable video-EEG radiotelemetry, we quantified a complex set of seizure parameters that demonstrated the induction of chronic electroencephalographic seizure activity in our InfRPil-mTLE model, which predominated during the dark cycle. …”
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Neurogenesis and Microglia Activation in the Mouse Brain by Anton Pikhovych, Nina Paloma Stolberg, Lea Jessica Flitsch, Helene Luise Walter, Rudolf Graf, Gereon Rudolf Fink, Michael Schroeter, Maria Adele Rueger

“…Activated microglia in the cerebral cortex and neuroblasts generated in the subventricular zone as the major neural stem cell niche were assessed immunohistochemically. …”
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Capacity Enhancement in 60 GHz Based D2D Networks by Relay Selection and Scheduling by Waheed ur Rehman, Tabinda Salam, Jin Xu, Xiaofeng Tao

“…Using vertex multicoloring, we allow transmitter-receiver (Tx-Rx) communication pairs to span over more colors, enabling better time slot utilization. …”
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Brain-Specific SNAP-25 Deletion Leads to Elevated Extracellular Glutamate Level and Schizophrenia-Like Behavior in Mice by Hua Yang, Mengjie Zhang, Jiahao Shi, Yunhe Zhou, Zhipeng Wan, Yicheng Wang, Yinghan Wan, Jun Li, Zhugang Wang, Jian Fei

“…A significantly elevated extracellular glutamate level was detected in the cerebral cortex of the mouse model. Compared with Ctrls, SNAP-25 was dramatically reduced by about 60% both in cytoplasm and in membrane fractions of cerebral cortex of cKOs, while the other two core members of SNARE complex: Syntaxin-1 (increased ~80%) and Vamp2 (increased ~96%) were significantly increased in cell membrane part. …”
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Cortical areas associated to higher cognition drove primate brain evolution by Marina Melchionna, Silvia Castiglione, Giorgia Girardi, Antonio Profico, Alessandro Mondanaro, Gabriele Sansalone, Narimane Chatar, Alejandro Pérez Ramos, Marcos Fernández-Monescillo, Carmela Serio, Luca Pandolfi, Jacob Dembitzer, Mirko Di Febbraro, Marta Michelle Caliendo, Alessia Di Costanzo, Linda Morvillo, Antonella Esposito, Pasquale Raia

“…By developing statistical tools to study the evolution of the brain cortex at the fine scale, we found that rapid cortical expansion in the prefrontal region took place early on during the evolution of primates. …”
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