Shrimp is an Indonesian fishery commodity with a high selling value in domestic and international markets. Frozen shrimp, as type of shrimp exported from products, has enormous potential to be developed one the mainstay commodities fisheries sector. However, Indonesia's frozen exports last five years have fluctuated are still unable compete competing countries exporting main destination countri...

The Modified Bark Spectral Distortion (MBSD), used for an objective speech quality measure, was presented previously [1][2]. The MBSD measure estimates speech distortion in the loudness domain taking into account the noise masking threshold in order to include only audible distortions in the calculation of the distortion measure. Preliminary simulation results have shown improvement of the MBSD...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between several physiological variables that can be easily obtained during cycle ergometer gradual testing (for example, peak power output (W(peak)), Vo(2max), or ventilatory threshold (VT)) and actual (>50 km) time trials (TT) time performance during the Tour de France. METHODS We collected data in professional cyclists from the first TT of the 1998 ...

In this Letter, we show that the explosive percolation is a novel continuous phase transition. The order-parameter-distribution histogram at the percolation threshold is studied in Erd˝ os-Rényi networks, scale-free networks, and square lattice. In finite system, two well-defined Gaussian-like peaks coexist, and the valley between the two peaks is suppressed with the system size increasing. Thi...

In social movements, the decision of individuals to participate depends both on their own preferences as well as the behavior of others. Three examples of this type of interaction are the Arab Spring protests, Kickstarter campaigns, and internet memes. One way of modeling this is Granovetter’s threshold model of collective action, in which each agent needs to see a “threshold” level of particip...

Taste thresholds for sucrose, NaCl, QHCl and citric acid were examined over the lifetime of seven rats. Significant yet subtle decreases in taste sensitivity were observed in the oldest subjects only.