Effects of age, plant spacing, and other variables on growth, yield, and fiber quality of kenaf, Hibiscus cannabinus L.

Bibliography: p. 19.

Field-degradation effects on cotton fiber and yarn quality

Bibliography: p. 17-18.

Multiple lint-cotton cleaning : its effect on bale value, fiber quality, and waste composition /

Additional references: p. 34-35.

Fiber production in the western hemisphere /

"For Spanish edition of this material see: ... [his] Fibras vegetales y su producción en América. Translated by María A. Ruisánchez Masters. Unión panamericana, Officina de cooperación agrícola Pub. agric. nos. 137-140"--Foot-notes, p. 1.

Effect of spacing on some agronomic and fiber characteristics of irrigated cotton /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62).

Equilibrium moisture contents of fiber flax /

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Uber die entwicklung des zahnsystmes von castor fiber l.

Thesis (doctoral)--

Effect on ginning and spinning efficiency and cotton quality of fiber moisture, seed-cotton cleaning, lint cleaning /

Mode of access: Internet.

Summary of Fiber and Spinning Test Results for Some Varieties of Cotton Grown by Selected Cotton Improvement Groups

Continued by U.S. Agricultural Marketing Service. Agricultural Information Bulletin After 1953

Creation of maximally entangled photon-number states using optical fiber multiports

We theoretically demonstrate a method for producing the maximally path-entangled state (1/root2)(\N,0>+exp[iNphi]\0,N>) using intensity-symmetric multiport beam splitters, single photon inputs, and either photon-counting postselection or conditional measurement. The use of postselection enables successful implementation with non-unit efficiency detectors. We also demonstrate how to make the same state more conveniently by replacing one of the single photon inputs by a coherent state.

An Electromechanical Coupled Model of the Probe of a Scanning Fiber Imaging System

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Muscle fiber conduction velocity of the upper trapezius muscle during dynamic contraction of the upper limb in patients with chronic neck pain

The purpose of this study was to compare average muscle fiber conduction velocity (CV) and its changes over time in the upper trapezius muscle during a repetitive upper limb task in people with chronic neck pain and in healthy controls. Surface EMG signals were detected bilaterally from the upper trapezius muscle of 19 patients and nine healthy controls using linear adhesive arrays of four electrodes. Subjects were asked to tap their hands in a cyclic manner between targets positioned mid-thigh and 120 degrees of shoulder flexion, to the beat of a metronome set at 88 beats/min for up to 5 min. Muscle fiber CV and instantaneous mean power spectral frequency were estimated for each cycle at the time instant corresponding to 90 degrees of shoulder flexion. Average muscle fiber CV of the upper trapezius muscle was higher in people with chronic neck pain (mean +/- SE, 4.8 +/- 0.1 m/s) than in control subjects (4.4 +/- 0.1 m/s; P

Muscle fiber and motor unit behavior in the longest human skeletal muscle

The sartorius muscle is the longest muscle in the human body. It is strap-like, up to 600 mm in length, and contains five to seven neurovascular compartments, each with a neuromuscular endplate zone. Some of its fibers terminate intrafascicularly, whereas others may run the full length of the muscle. To assess the location and timing of activation within motor units of this long muscle, we recorded electromyographic potentials from multiple intramuscular electrodes along sartorius muscle during steady voluntary contraction and analyzed their activity with spike-triggered averaging from a needle electrode inserted near the proximal end of the muscle. Approximately 30% of sartorius motor units included muscle fibers that ran the full length of the muscle, conducting action potentials at 3.9 +/- 0.1 m/s. Most motor units were innervated within a single muscle endplate zone that was not necessarily near the midpoint of the fiber. As a consequence, action potentials reached the distal end of a unit as late as 100 ms after initiation at an endplate zone. Thus, contractile activity is not synchronized along the length of single sartorius fibers. We postulate that lateral transmission of force from fiber to endomysium and a wide distribution of motor unit endplates along the muscle are critical for the efficient transmission of force from sarcomere to tendon and for the prevention of muscle injury caused by overextension of inactive regions of muscle fibers.

Comment on "Microstructured polymer fiber laser"

We comment on the recent Letter by Argyros et al. [Opt. Lett. 29, 1882 (2004)] in which a microstructured polymer fiber doped with the dye Rhodamine 6G was discussed as a possible fiber laser source. We suggest that the lasing action at 632 nm was due to stimulated Raman scattering in the poly(methyl methacrylate) host material. (c) 2005 Optical Society of America.