A 10- to 21-d chick bioassay was conducted to determine the absolute retention value (ARV) for 2 different defluorinated phosphates (DF-1 and DF-2) and a reagent grade dicalcium phosphate (DCP). The total and test P in excreta regressed on feed P levels were subjected to general straight-line (linear), 1-slope broken-line, 2-slope broken-line, and polynomial regression methods to find the best ...

Visual search is easier after looking at some distractors in advance because previewed distractors are excluded from the search (preview benefit). A dominant explanation for preview benefit is that it occurs because of the inhibition of old objects (visual marking). However, another view claims that preview benefit simply reflects automatic attentional orienting to new objects (onset capture). ...

The results of experimental investigation of longitudinal hysteresis of epitaxial garnet films with "easy axis in plane" anisotropy using magnetooptical method are presented. The orientational phase transition isolines corresponding to change in magnetic reversal mechanisms at room (T=293 K) and near liquid nitrogen (T=90 K) temperatures are obtained by visual observation along easy axis of mag...

We use numerical simulations to examine the mass-velocity and intensity-velocity relations in the CO J=2-1 and H2 S(1)1-0 lines for jet-driven molecular outflows. Contrary to previous expectations, we find that the mass-velocity relation for the swept-up gas is a single power-law, with a shallow slope ≃ −1.5 and no break to a steeper slope at high velocities. An analytic bowshock model with no ...

Any suggestion of altering the genetic makeup of human beings through gene therapy is quite likely to provoke a response involving some reference to a 'slippery slope'. In this article the author examines the topography of two different types of slippery slope argument, the logical slippery slope and the rhetorical slippery slope argument. The logical form of the argument suggests that if we pe...

Measurement professionals cannot come to an agreement on the definition of the term „item fairness‟. In this paper a continuous measure of item unfairness is proposed. The more the unfairness measure deviates from zero, the less fair the item is. If the measure exceeds the cutoff value, the item is identified as definitely unfair. The new approach can identify unfair items that would not be ide...

The problem associated with use of statistical methods for determining a best linear relationship of the form Y = AX +B have been examined for a condition quite prevalent with experimental research, i.e., when the values of both variables are subject to essentially unknown errors. Under this condition standard least-squares regression analysis underestimates the value of the slope A. A very sim...

The prediction of the rating that a user is likely to give to an item, can be derived from the ratings of other items given by other users, through collaborative filtering (CF). However, CF raises concerns about the privacy of the individual user’s rating data. To deal with this, several privacy-preserving CF schemes have been proposed. However, they are all limited either in terms of efficienc...

Seven experiments examined the role of spatial attention in apprehending spatial relations above, below, left, and right. In Experiment 1, visual search was difficult when targets differed from distractors only in the spatial relation between their elements. Reaction time increased linearly with display size with a slope greater than 60 ms/item. In Experiment 2, search was easy (the slope was f...