Forestry, Vol. 83, No. 3, 2010. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpq009 For Permissions, please email: [email protected] Advance Access publication date 7 April 2010 Since the 1930s, the individual, regional Forest Inventory and Analysis Units concentrated on increasing their efficiency of operation, often by improving the efficiency of the sample design for the specific forest condit...

In percentile method, percentiles of the diameter distribution are predicted with a system of models. The continuous empirical diameter distribution function is then obtained by interpolating between the predicted values of percentiles. In Finland, the distribution is typically modelled as a basal-area weighted distribution, which is transformed to a traditional density function for application...

In uncertain graphs, the existence of some edges is not predetermined. The diameter of an uncertain graph is essentially an uncertain variable, which indicates the suitability for investigation of its distribution function. The main focus of this paper is to propose an algorithm to determine the distribution function of the diameter of an uncertain graph. We first discuss the characteristics of...

PURPOSE To determine the normal distribution of corneal diameter in a 40- to 64-year-old population and its association with other biometric components. METHODS In a cross-sectional population-based study, subjects were selected through multistage cluster sampling from the 40- to 64-year-old citizens of Shahroud in northern Iran. After obtaining informed consents, optometry tests including re...

The dispersibility and bundle defoliation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) of small diameter (<1 nm) have been evaluated on CoMoCAT samples with narrow distribution of diameters. As previously observed by photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy, the CoMoCAT sample exhibits a uniquely narrow distribution of (n,m) structures that remains unchanged after different dispersion conditions. ...

Let (Y, d) be a Gromov-Hausdorff limit of closed shrinking Ricci solitons with uniformly upper bounded diameter and lower bounded volume. We prove that off a closed subset of codimension at least 2, Y is a smooth manifold satisfying a shrinking Ricci soliton equation.

PURPOSE: This work proposes an original method to recover axon diameter distributions (ADD) of white matter (WM) using nuclear magnetic resonance. The technique might be interpreted as an interesting simplification of the AxCaliber framework [1], which leads to a simpler model and an extremely faster acquisition protocol. To test and validate our method, we use the open-source toolkit CAMINO [2...

The asymptotic distribution of the diameter of the digraph of a uniformly distributed random mapping of an n-element set to itself is represented as the distribution of a functional of a re ecting Brownian bridge. This yields a formula for the Mellin transform of the asymptotic distribution, generalizing the evaluation of its mean by Flajolet and Odlyzko (1990). Titre: La loi limite du diam etr...

Celiac disease (CD) is currently considerably underdiagnosed, setting the need for developing tools to select patients with probability of CD, who warrant further testing. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has been shown in previous studies to be a sensitive predictor for CD, but it lacks specificity. Splenic hypotrophy is also noted frequently in celiac patients. Our aim was to evaluate ...