Statistical characteristics of quasi-elastically scattered light in analysis of size of aggregated biological particles

The spectra of the intensity fluctuations of light scattered by large (erythrocytes of whole blood) and small (vesicles of surgical bile) particles in natural conditions were studied. It is shown that photon correlation spectroscopy can be used in analysis of variations in the size of biological particles in normal and pathological conditions and as an express method of noninvasive diagnostics of diseases.     

Characteristics of thermoradiative destruction of BaS2O6·2H2O

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 613–618, October, 1991.     

The large-particle method in arbitrary nets and its application to the solution of problems in the aeroelasticity of a parachute

Modifications are introduced into the large-particle method to make it possible to use the method in arbitrary nonrectangular computing nets in the study of the flow of an ideal compressible gas over mobile thin permeable membranes. A problem in the aeroelasticity of a parachute is stated. An example is given of the solution of a problem in the stationary formulation for an axially symmetric parachute in the wake of a cylindrical leading body for supersonic flow.Translated fromDinamicheskie Sistemy, No. 6, 1987, pp. 16–22     

High-frequency asymptotics of acoustic pressure for bounded wave beam scattering by an elastic sphere

Asymptotic high-freqeuncy estimates are obtained for the amplitudes of specular and non-specular reflections with extraction of the contribution of sound reradiation into the surrounding medium by Rayleigh type surface elastic waves. The conditions are found that govern the magnification of scattering in the opposite direction. The theoretical explanation of the book reflection effect /1/ for bounded sound beam incidence on the plane interface of a fluid-elastic solid is given by many authors in different situations (/12/, say). As for non-specular reflection of a plane sound wave by bounded elastic bodies (plates, cylinders, rods, and shells enclosed in a screen), studied most thoroughly in /3–9/, this effect is a consequence of satisfying the space-time resonance conditions between the incident acoustic wave and the normal surface waves excited in an elastic solid under total internal reflection.     

New hearing threshold measurements for pure tones under free-field listening conditions.

Hearing thresholds for pure tones were measured under free-field listening conditions in the frequency range of 40 Hz-15 kHz. Results are consistent with the standard threshold specified in ISO 226 for frequencies up to 250 Hz, but a few dB below the ISO curve at higher frequencies. Thresholds are distributed normally on a logarithmic level scale with a standard deviation of approximately 5 dB. No significant differences between thresholds of male and female subjects were observed.