This paper analyzes the performances of the Spearman’s rho (SR) and Kendall’s tau (KT) with respect to samples drawn from bivariate normal and contaminated normal populations. The exact analytical formulae of the variance of SR and covariance between SR and KT are obtained based on the Childs’s reduction formula for the quadrivariate normal positive orthant probabilities. Asymptotic closed-form...

Central core disease (CCD) is a human congenital myopathy characterized by fetal hypotonia and proximal muscle weakness that is linked to mutations in the gene encoding the type-1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1). CCD is thought to arise from Ca(2+)-induced damage stemming from mutant RyR1 proteins forming "leaky" sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) release channels. A novel mutation in the C-terminal ...

The impact of regular exercise in protecting cardiac deteriorating results of female sex hormone deprivation was evaluated by measuring changes in intracellular Ca2+ removal activity of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in ovariectomized rats following 9-wk treadmill running exercise at moderate intensity. Despite induction of cardiac hypertrophy in exercised groups of both sham-operated and ovariect...

The purpose of the meta-analysis of randomized trials was to analyze the significance of ethnicity on the effect of sodium reduction (SR) on blood pressure (BP) by estimating the effect of SR on BP in Asians, Blacks and Whites under conditions, which were adjusted with respect to baseline BP, baseline sodium intake and quantity of SR. Relevant studies were retrieved from a pool of 167 RCTs publ...

This paper analyzes the performances of the Spearman’s rho (SR) and Kendall’s tau (KT) with respect to samples drawn from bivariate normal and bivariate contaminated normal populations. The exact analytical formulae of the variance of SR and the covariance between SR and KT are obtained based on the Childs’s reduction formula for the quadrivariate normal positive orthant probabilities. Close fo...

It remains hotly debated whether latitudinal diversity gradients are common across taxonomic groups and whether a single mechanism can explain such gradients. Investigating species richness (SR) patterns of European land plants, we determine whether SR increases with decreasing latitude, as predicted by theory, and whether the assembly mechanisms differ among taxonomic groups. SR increases towa...

Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) are used in many traditional expert systems and modern artificial intelligence tasks such as automatic speech recognition, image recognition retrieval, pattern speaker verification, financial forecasting applications others, simple statistical representations of underlying data. Those typically require high-dimensional GMM components that consume large computing r...

12 Benthic nitrogen (N2) fixation and sulfate reduction (SR) were investigated in the Peruvian 13 oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Sediment samples, were retrieved by a multiple corer at six 14 stations (70 1025 m water depth) along a depth transect at 12°S, covering anoxic and 15 hypoxic bottom water conditions. Benthic N2 fixation was detected at all sites using the 16 acetylene reduction assay, wi...