Threshold influence on vibrotactile magnitude production scaling

The dependence of vibrotactile threshold and magnitude functions on stimulation frequency and signal level. A perceptual and neural comparison.

Effect of individual finger skin temperature on vibrotactile perception threshold.

OBJECTIVES In healthy people, the vibrotactile perception threshold (VPT) at fingertips depends on a given measurement method and on individual characteristics such as age, gender and finger skin temperature. The aim of the study was to compare the VPT values in 2 groups of healthy subjects with different finger skin temperature. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study group comprised 56 males and 76...

Magnitude Scaling of Induced Earthquakes

Presented are the results of an earthquake magnitude homogenization exercise for several datasets of induced earthquakes. The result of this exercise is to show that homogeneous computation of earthquake momentand local-magnitude is useful in hazard assessment of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGSs). Data include records from EGSs in Basel (Switzerland), Soultz (France) and Cooper Basin (Australi...

Scaling threshold characters.

A simple method of scaling ordered categorical responses having a joint distribution with an underlying normal variable is presented. Scores are developed that maximize heritability of the observed variate and that in the class of scores based on polychotomies: (1) maximize the correlation between score and the underlying genetic value to be predicted, and (2) minimize mean-square prediction er...

Threshold Perspectives on Meson Production

Studies of meson production in nucleon–nucleon collisions at threshold are characterised by few degrees of freedom in a configuration of well defined initial and final states with a transition governed by short range dynamics. Effects from low–energy scattering in the exit channel are inherent to the data and probe the interaction in baryon–meson and meson–meson systems otherwise difficult to a...