[1] We analyze the early aftershock activity of the 2004 mid-Niigata earthquake, using both earthquake catalog data and continuous waveform recordings. The frequencymagnitude distribution analysis of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) catalog shows that the magnitude of completeness of the aftershocks changes from values around 5.0, immediately after the main shock, to about 1.8, 12 hours la...

China’s rural industrialization, which flourished in the 1980s, has suddenly declined since mid-1990s. Based on perspective of institutional change collective construction land, this paper discusses reasons behind rise and fall industrialization. Using empirical tests provincial panel data from 1987 to 1997, it is found that 1980s mid-1990s, government relaxed regulation land allowed its transf...

BACKGROUND In plantar pressure studies on the diabetic foot, pressure-time integral data is often analyzed and reported next to peak pressure data, mostly because of its assumed additional value. The aim was to assess this additional value by systematically reviewing the relevant literature. METHODS The MEDLINE database was searched for original articles that report both pressure-time integra...

The contingency table arises in nearly every application of statistics. However, even the basic problem of testing independence is not totally resolved. More than thirty–five years ago, Lancaster (1961) proposed using the mid p–value for testing independence in a contingency table. The mid p–value is defined as half the conditional probability of the observed statistic plus the conditional prob...

In this paper we will show that contouring performance can be viewed as a regulation problem in a curvilinear task coordinate frame that is attached to the desired contour. By transforming the machine tool feed drive dynamics to this task coordinate frame, an adaptive robust control (ARC) law is derived to improve the contouring performance under system parameter variation and bounded disturban...