We present results of an extensive investigation of the physical changes taking place in the emission regions of the LMXB X 1624-490 during strong flaring in observations made using RXTE in 1997 and 1999. Based on the detailed light curve, we propose that the flaring consists of a superposition of X-ray bursts. It is shown that major changes take place in the blackbody emission component, the t...

W hen designing resistance-training programs, the strength coach has to consider a number of variables that can be manipulated to make programs different. These include choosing (a) the exercise, (b) the repetitions, (c) the sets, (d) the resistance, (e) the speed of performing the exercise, (f ) the order of exercises, and (g) the rest periods between sets and exercises (6). The Australian Str...

We present a two dimensional map of the gas temperature distribution in the Centaurus cluster, based on ASCA observations derived using a novel approach to account for the energy dependent point spread function. Along with a cool region, centered on NGC4696, asymmetric temperature variations of moderate amplitude are detected. The hottest region roughly coincides with the position of the second...

We present a detailed and homogeneous analysis of the ROSAT PSPC surface brightness profiles of 36 clusters of galaxies with high X-ray luminosity (LX >∼ 10 45 erg s) and redshifts between 0.05 and 0.44. Using recent ASCA estimates of the temperature of the gas for most of the clusters in the sample, we apply both the deprojection technique and model fitting to the surface brightness profiles t...

The nearby galaxy M33 hosts the most luminous steady X-ray source in the Local Group. The high spatial resolution of Chandra allows us to confirm that this ultra-luminous X-ray source is within the nucleus and rule out at the 4.6σ level a previously proposed possible counterpart located 1 away. The X-ray spectrum is well fitted by a disc blackbody with kTin=1.18±0.02 keV and Rin(cos θ)=57±3 km,...

RXTE observations of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0146.9+6121 in July 1997 revealed the begin of a new Xray outburst, the second observed after its discovery in August 1984 by EXOSAT. The flux increased by nearly a factor of five within one week reaching 3.2 10−10 erg cm−2 s−1. The corresponding X-ray luminosity for a distance of 2.5 kpc is an order of magnitude brighter than the level observ...

In biomedical research, researchers frequently use statistical procedures such as the t-test, standard analysis of variance (ANOVA), or the repeated measures ANOVA to compare means between the groups of interest. There are frequently some misuses in applying these procedures since the conditions of the experiments or statistical assumptions necessary to apply these procedures are not fully take...

Monoterpene patterns of different larch species (Larix deci-dua, Larix kaempferi, Larix sibirica, Larix gmelinii). In: Results and future trends in larch breeding on the basis of provenance research. Abstract Procedures to analyze half-diallel mating designs using the SAS statistical package are presented. The procedure requires two runs of PROC VARCOMP and results in estimates of additive and ...

Forty-one samples of skim milk powder (SMP) and nonfat dry milk (NFDM) from 8 suppliers, 13 production sites, and 3 processing temperatures were analyzed by NIR diffuse reflectance spectrometry over a period of 3 days. NIR reflectance spectra (1700-2500 nm) were converted to pseudoabsorbance and examined using (a) analysis of variance-principal component analysis (ANOVA-PCA), (b) pooled-ANOVA b...