A standard description of growth stages for crops/plants is necessary not only for determining and improving cultural practices, but also to facilitate enhanced communication among producers, researchers, and educators. It also could help in unifying experimental results. Many different descriptions of growth stages are currently available for many crops, but there are no codes for sesame (Sesa...

Animal studies have provided direct evidence for constant modification of cortical maps of an adult modulated by training [1, 2]. This representational remodeling was further studied by Wang et al. [3] showing that temporal coincident multiple digit stimuli resulted in integrated multiple receptive fields (fusion). Recent advances in human brain imaging techniques have made it possible to study...

A rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) technique was used to investigate the role of the nature of processing carried out on targets in the Lag-1 sparing phenomenon. Lag-1 sparing refers to a higher accuracy in the task associated with the 2nd target when the 2 targets are immediately successive in the RSVP stream relative to when there are 1 or 2 intervening items between the targets. In 5 ...

In humans, hand performance has evolved from a crude multidigit grasp to skilled individuated finger movements. However, control of the fingers is not completely independent. Although musculotendinous factors can limit independent movements, constraints in supraspinal control are more important. Most previous studies examined either flexion or extension of the digits. We studied differences in ...

Good outcomes have been reported after both open and percutaneous surgery to release trigger thumb. This study evaluated short-term and long-term outcomes after treatment of trigger thumb with open or percutaneous release. A total of 126 trigger thumbs in 107 patients were reviewed from 2009 to 2012. Short-term (3 months) and long-term results (2 years) and complications of open release (58 dig...

In this paper, the AMSGrad stochastic optimization method was tested using logistic function that describes doubling process and Fourier spectra of error function. The implementation gradient descent algorithm, AMSGrad, done for a multilayer neural network with hidden layers. program recognizing printed digits written Python software environment. array each digit consisted set "0" "1" size 4x7....

PURPOSE To evaluate a new nuclear cataract grading system which is intended as a surgical guidance system to predict lens hardness before cataract surgery. METHODS The new BCN 10 grading system consists of frontal and cross-sectional slit-lamp images of human eye lenses, ranging from a completely transparent lens nucleus to a totally black nuclear cataract. Validation was done with 9 observer...

Arabic digits are one of the most ubiquitous symbol sets in the world. While there have been many investigations into the neural processing of the semantic information digits represent (e.g. through numerical comparison tasks), little is known about the neural mechanisms which support the processing of digits as visual symbols. To characterise the component neurocognitive mechanisms which under...

The question of whether (and why) the digits of well-known constants of mathematics are statistically random in some sense has long fascinated mathematicians. Indeed, one prime motivation in computing and analyzing digits of π is to explore the age-old question of whether and why these digits appear “random.” The first computation on ENIAC in 1949 of π to 2037 decimal places was proposed by Joh...