A fractal signal x(t) in biomedical engineering may be characterized by 1/f noise, that is, the power spectrum density (PSD) divergences at f = 0. According the Taqqu's law, 1/f noise has the properties of long-range dependence and heavy-tailed probability density function (PDF). The contribution of this paper is to exhibit that the prediction error of a biomedical signal of 1/f noise type is l...

Pfu DNA Polymerase(a)-generated blunt-end PCR fragments can be ligated into the pGEM®-T and pGEM®-T Easy Vectors(b,c) if the fragments are first A-tailed using Taq DNA Polymerase(a). We describe a method for A-tailing these PCR fragments and demonstrate its utility by cloning two different Pfu DNA Polymerase-generated fragments into the pGEM®-T Easy Vector, using the new 2X Rapid Ligation Buffe...

In this paper we consider a stylized multidimensional rare-event simulation problem for a heavy-tailed process. More precisely, the problem of e¢ cient estimation via simulation of …rst passage time probabilities for a multidimensional random walk with t distributed increments. This problem is a natural generalization of ruin probabilities in insurance, in which the focus is a one dimensional r...

Two new species of the feather mite genus Trouessartia (Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae) are described from passerine birds in Primorsky Krai (Russian Far East): calliope sp. n. Siberian Rubythroat Calliope (Linnaeus) and T. larvivorae Rufous-tailed Robin Larvivora sibilans (Swinhoe) (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae: Saxicolinae). Both close to swidwiensis Jablonska, 1968 associated with nightingales L...

The meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) was found in 22 (7%) of 300 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) (257 adults, 43 fawns) examined from Nebraska (USA) during November 1996. None of 53 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) (47 adults and 6 fawns) examined were infected. Twenty-two white-tailed deer from 18 counties in eastern Nebraska were infected with Parelaphostrongylus tenuis. ...

Bat wings are important for thermoregulation, but their role in heat balance during flight is largely unknown. More than 80% of the energy consumed during flight generates heat as a by-product, and thus it is expected that bat wings should dissipate large amounts of heat to prevent hyperthermia. We measured rectal (T(r)) and surface (T(s)) temperatures of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida br...

Metacestodes (cysticerci) of Taenia omissa Lühe, 1910, and Taenia hydatigena Pallas, 1776, were found in 9 and 1 of 124 white-tailed deer, respectively, in southern Florida in 1984-1986. Intensities of T. omissa varied from 1 to 15 (mean = 4.6); only 1 cysticercus of T. hydatigena was collected. No significant difference in the prevalences of T. omissa according to sex, age, or locality was obs...

Penelitian mengandung tujuan [Ma1] [WM2] yakni mengetahui pengaruh penggunaan media poster terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa pada pembelajaran IPS kelas VII di MTs Al-Khoirot dan untuk keefektifan penerapan Al-Khoirot. Menggunakan metode kuantitatif jenis Quasi Eksperimen. Angket digunakan sebagai instrumen penelitian yang telah dilakukan uji kevalidan serta kereliabilitasannya pengumpul...