Determining relative strengths of trophic links is critical for ranking predators for conservation biological control. Molecular gut-content analysis enables ranking by incidence of prey remains in the gut, but differential digestive rates bias such rankings toward predators with slower rates. This bias can be reduced by indexing each predator’s half-life to that of the middle-most half-life in...

This note is concerned with the stabilization of control systems using an estimated state feedback. The global stabilization problem for a relatively broad class of nonlinear plants is discussed. Moreover, using the “input to state stability” property introduced by Sontag [l-4] and detectability condition, we show that the system citn be globally asymptotically stable using a state detection. @...

A new method is proposed to check the detectability for a class of rectangular linear time invariant descriptor systems. The method is based on the properties of restricted system equivalent, derived here from a given descriptor system by means of simple matrix theory. Equivalence between the detectability of a given descriptor system and that of a normal system is established. The proposed res...

The relative detectability of three potentially optimal visual signals derived on the basis of statistical decision theory was measured and compared with that of a one-dimensional analog of the most detectable signal found by Watson et al. [Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Suppl. 20, 178 (1981)]. The latter signal was marginally easier to detect than the other three, but the small differences in d...

This study is part of a project to develop image discrimination models that can predict the detectability of target signals in color images. Image discrimination models take as input two images and predict the number of just-noticeable differences (JNDs) between the images. If one image is a background image and the other image has the identical background plus a target image, the model predict...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the lesion detectability of a gamma camera based coincidence detector system (c-PET system) in comparison to the dedicated PET system (d-PET system), and thereby clarify the feasibility of the clinical application of this system and also describe any factors influencing the lesion detectability of the c-PET system. METHODS We examined 74 pati...

Advances in sensor and communication technologies have made it possible to manufacture small sensors with sensing, processing, and wireless communication capabilities in a costeffective fashion. A sensor network can be formed by deploying specialized sensors in the region of interest to perform certain sensing and networking tasks. Application scenarios of wireless sensor networks include battl...

It is expected that both noise and activity distribution can have impact on the detectability of a myocardial defect in a cardiac PET study. In this work, we performed phantom studies to investigate the detectability of a defect in the myocardium for different noise levels and activity distributions. We evaluated the performance of three reconstruction schemes: Filtered Back-Projection (FBP), O...

In many bird monitoring surveys, no attempt is made to estimate bird densities or abundance. Instead, counts of one form or another are made, and these are assumed to correlate with bird density. Unless complete counts on sample plots are feasible, this approach can easily lead to false conclusions, because detectability of birds varies by species, habitat, observer and many other factors. Tren...