The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 205 No. 1 113–126 www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201312072 JCB 113 Correspondence to Gerald R.V. Hammond: [email protected] Abbreviations used in this paper: ANOVA, analysis of variance; FKBP, FK506 binding protein; FRB, FKBP12-rapamycin binding; iRFP, infra-RFP; nMDP, normalized mean deviation product; OSBP, oxysterol binding pro...

We present experimental results on statistics of polymer orientation angles relative to the shear plane and tumbling times in shear flow with thermal noise. The strong deviation of the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the orientation angles from Gaussian PDFs was observed in good accord with theory. A universal exponential PDF tail for the tumbling times and its predicted scaling wi...

Recurrent spiking neural networks can provide biologically inspired model of robot controller. We study here the dynamics of large size randomly connected networks thanks to ”mean field theory”. Mean field theory allows to compute their dynamics under the assumption that the dynamics of individual neuronsare stochastically independent. We restrict ourselves to the simple case of homogeneous cen...

The electric cone penetration test (CPT) has been in use for over 40 years and is growing in popularity in North America. This paper provides some recent updates on the interpretation of some key geotechnical parameters in an effort to develop a more unified approach. Extensive use is made of the normalized soil behaviour type (SBTn) chart based on normalized cone resistance (Qt) and normalized...

Given the increasing emphasis on performance of resistance exercise as an essential component of health, we evaluated, using a prospective longitudinal design, the potential for resistance training to affect arterial endothelial function. Twenty-eight men (23 +/- 3.9 yr old; mean +/- SE) engaged in 12 wk of whole body resistance training five times per week using a repeating split-body 3-day cy...

nowadays, because of the growing numbers of vehicles on streets and roads, the use of intelligent controlsystems to improve driving safety and health has become a necessity. to design and implement suchcontrol systems, having information about traffic light colors is essential. there are the wide variety oftraffic lights in terms of light intensity and color. therefore it seems that design and ...

The scalp potentials originate in neuronal activity in the brain cortex, and neuronal abnormality causes scalp potential abnormality. As a measure of scalp potential abnormality, the normalized power variance, NPV, of EEG signals is introduced, where its mean m and standard deviation are defined for each of 21 EEG channel over a group of normal controls. When an NPV value of a subject to be tes...

This paper proposes that speech analysis be used to quantify prosodic variables in presentation speech, and reports the results of a perception test of speaker liveliness. The test material was taken from a corpus of oral presentations made by 18 Swedish native students of Technical English. Liveliness ratings from a panel of eight judges correlated strongly with normalized standard deviation o...

A chart was developed which gives the volume-normalized extinction coefficient for log-normally modelled, multimodal particle volume distributions. The real part of the particle refractive index ranges from 1.30 to 1.70. Two adjustment charts modify the main chart for an imaginary part of the refractive index different from 0.02, and for a geometric standard deviation of the modal volume distri...

Let X1, X2, . . . be independent random variables with zero means and finite variances, and let Sn = ∑n i=1Xi and V 2 n = ∑n i=1X 2 i . A Cramér type moderate deviation for the maximum of the self-normalized sums max1≤k≤n Sk/Vn is obtained. In particular, for identically distributed X1, X2, · · · , it is proved that P(max1≤k≤n Sk ≥ xVn)/(1 − Φ(x)) → 2 uniformly for 0 < x ≤ o(n1/6) under the opt...