We present the statistical analysis of the Lateral Distribution Fuction (LDF) of air showers created by cosmic rays, for the AERAlet array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. To model the LDF of the AERAlet array, we propose the use of a normalised NKG-function, which has previously been applied to both the Regular and the Infill arrays of the observatory. By linearizing this model and iterating a...

magyar.ldf, the Hungarian Babel module, was rewritten in the autumn of 2003 to obey most of the Hungarian typographical rules. This article describes some implementation issues, TEX macro programming hacks, and LATEX typesetting trickery used in magyar.ldf. All features of the new magyar.ldf are enumerated, but only those having an interesting implementation are presented in detail. Most of the...

A geometrically polar granular rod confined in 2D geometry, subjected to a sinusoidal vertical oscillation, undergoes noisy self-propulsion in a direction determined by its polarity. When surrounded by a medium of crystalline spherical beads, it displays substantial negative fluctuations in its velocity. We find that the large-deviation function (LDF) for the normalized velocity is strongly non...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Low-intensity laser therapy (LILT) is widely used for wound healing promotion and its mechanism of action may be due to an enhancement of blood supply. The aim of this study was to evaluate blood flow alterations in a wound healing model, using laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) associated with a normalized perfusion parameter. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS An injury...

In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling real-time traffic in wireless networks under a conflict-graph interference model and single-hop traffic. The objective is to guarantee that at least certain fraction packets each link are delivered within their deadlines, which referred as delivery ratio. This has been studied before restrictive frame-based models, or greedy maximal schemes l...

This is a statisticalmodel (the “multiple logistic model”) for pooling data from many variables into a single probability estimate that a person examined in a health screening system requires medical care. Because discrete variables are frequently studied in health screening programs, the required assumption of multivariate normality of the predictor variables related to many statistical techni...

Flemingia macrophylla (Leguminosae), a native plant of Taiwan, is used as folk medicine. An in vitro study showed that a 75% ethanolic extract of F. macrophylla (FME) inhibited osteoclast differentiation of cultured rat bone marrow cells, and the active component, lespedezaflavanone A (LDF-A), was isolated. It was found that oral administration of FME for 13 weeks suppressed bone loss in ovarie...

Using a spin density functional code AIMPRO we have examined the properties of interstitials and adatoms on graphite modelled as one two or three layers of a polyaromatic hydrocarbon C H and on a number of fullerenes We report the structure bonding and en ergetics of these defects and give an account of their mobilities Their formation energies are high and properties are spin dependent making ...

Conceptual representations in language processing employ both linguistic distributional and embodied information. Here, we aim to demonstrate the roles of these two components in metaphor processing. The linguistic component is captured by linguistic distributional frequency (LDF), that is, how often the constituent words appear together in context. The embodied component, on the other hand, re...

The distribution of the reflex effects of isometric exercise on cutaneous vasomotor and sudomotor function is not clear. We examined the effects of isometric exercise by different muscle masses on skin blood flow (SkBF) and sweat rate (SR) in nonglabrous skin and in glabrous skin. The latter contains arteriovenous anastomoses (AVAs), which cause large fluctuations in SkBF. SkBF was measured by ...