Beam-foil spectroscopy techniques have been used to study intercombination transitions in Be-like Fe22+ and B-like Fe21+. The method of time delayed spectroscopy was used to identify the Be-like 2s2 1S0-2s2p 3P1 and B-like 2s22p 2P3/2-2s2p2 4P5/2 transitions. Intensity decay curves for these transitions were recorded and level lifetimes were obtained. The latter were found to be 17.5 ± 1.5 ns for the Be-like 2s2p 3P1 level and 14.8 ± 1.0 ns for the B-like 2s2p2 4P5/2 level.
Energy levels of the 1s22l3l' and 1s22l4l' configurations for the ions with Z = 11-16 were calculated by using two calculation methods: many configuration Dirac-Fock (MCDF) and theory of perturbations by 1/Z. Contributions of correlation, relativistic and radiation effects and Z-dependence of these effects are discussed. The comparative analysis of calculated results and comparison of the results with available experimental data were carried out.
The relations between motor unit global firing rates and established quantitative measures for processing the surface electromyogram (EMG) signals were explored using a simulation approach. Surface EMG signals were simulated using the reported properties of the first dorsal interosseous muscle in man, and the models were varied systematically, using several hypothetical relations between motor unit electrical and force output, and also using different motor unit firing rate strategies. The utility of using different EMG processing parameters to help estimate global motor unit firing rate was evaluated based on their relations to the number of motor unit action potentials (MUAPs) in the simulated surface EMG signals. Our results indicate that the relation between motor unit electrical and mechanical properties, and the motor unit firing rate scheme are all important factors determining the form of the relation between surface EMG amplitude and motor unit global firing rate. Conversely, these factors have less impact on the relations between turn or zero-crossing point counts and the number of MUAPs in surface EMG. We observed that the number of turn or zero-crossing points tends to saturate with the increase in the MUAP number in surface EMG, limiting the utility of these measures as estimates of MUAP number. The simulation results also indicate that the mean or median frequency of the surface EMG power spectrum is a poor indicator of the global motor unit firing rate.
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