Very Large Telescope (VLT) je zcela výjimečným dalekohledem postaveným organizací ESO na jižní polokouli v Atacamské poušti v chilských Andách ve výšce 2635 metrů. Jde o čtyři dalekohledy o průměru 8,2 metru, které v kombinovaném režimu odpovídají jednomu přístroji o průměru zrcadla 16 metrů. Do budoucna se plánuje ještě interferometrické propojení (VLTI - Very Large Telescope Interferometer) se základnou 200 metrů. Naše expedice PARACHI 2003 měla možnost VLT navštívit a vidět na vlastní oči současný stav tohoto astronomicky mimořádně cenného přístroje. and Petr Kulhánek, Jakub Rozehnal.
To investigate the vestibular and somatosensory interaction in human postural control, a galvanic vestibular stimulation of cosine bell shape resulting in a small forward or backward body lean was paired with three vibrations of both soleus muscles. The induced body lean was registered by the position of the center of foot pressure (CoP). During a quiet stance with eyes closed the vibration of both soleus muscles with frequency (of) 40 Hz, 60 Hz and 80 Hz resulted in the body lean backward with velocities related to the vibration frequencies. The vestibular galvanic stimulation with the head turned to the right caused forward or backward modification of CoP backward response to the soleus muscles vibration and peaked at 1.5-2 s following the onset of the vibration. The effect of the paired stimulation was larger than the summation of the vestibular stimulation during the quiet stance and a leg muscle vibration alone. The enhancement of the galvanic stimulation was related to the velocity of body lean induced by the leg muscle vibration. The galvanic vestibular stimulation during a faster body movement had larger effects than during a slow body lean or the quiet stance. The results suggest that velocity of a body postural movement or incoming proprioceptive signal from postural muscles potentiate the effects of simultaneous vestibular stimulations on posture., O. Dzurková, F. Hlavačka., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy