The NESR ring of the FAIR project [1] will store highly charged radioactive and stable ion beams for internal experiments and decelerate ions and antiprotons for transfer to FLAIR. A powerful electron cooling system has been designed [2], covering the full energy range (740-4 MeV/u) for ions and allowing intermediate cooling in the range 800-30 MeV during the deceleration of antiprotons. It wil...

Heart rate variability (HRV) has been conventionally analysed with time- and frequency-domain methods, which measure the overall magnitude of RR interval fluctuations around its mean value or the magnitude of fluctuations in some predetermined frequencies. Analysis of heart rate dynamics by novel methods, such as heart rate turbulence after ventricular premature beats, deceleration capacity of ...

Drivers who rapidly change speed while driving may be more at risk for a crash. We sought to determine the relationship of demographic, vision, and cognitive variables with episodes of rapid decelerations during five days of normal driving in a cohort of older drivers. In the Salisbury Eye Evaluation Driving Study, 1425 older drivers aged 67-87 were recruited from the Maryland Motor Vehicle Adm...

We are aiming to detect local deceleration of Japanese spontaneous conversational speech. We have proposed the variable threshold (VT), which detects local speech rate deceleration from the sequence of time series of mora duration. In this paper, we add a constant term to the VT to detect local deceleration appropriately. The VT is applied to 167 samples of Japanese spontaneous speech taken fro...

Two maximization problems of Rényi entropy rate are investigated: the maximization over all stochastic processes whose marginals satisfy a linear constraint, and the Burg-like maximization over all stochastic processes whose autocovariance function begins with some given values. The solutions are related to the solutions to the analogous maximization problems of Shannon entropy rate.

Diet effects on age-dependent mortality patterns are well documented in a large number of animal species, but studies that look at the effects of nutrient availability on late-life mortality plateaus are lacking. Here, we focus on the effect of dietary protein content (low, intermediate, and high) on mortality trajectories in late life in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. According to the ...

OBJECTIVE Most neonatal encephalopathic disorders appear to be caused by perinatal events. Persistent myocardial ischemia leads to cellular necrosis and release of troponin from cardiac muscles. Fetal distress during labor may be detected by monitoring the fetal heart rate. However little is known about the relationship, if any, that exists between fetal heart rate abnormalities and the fetal c...

Several past studies developed acceleration/deceleration rate models as a function of single explanatory variable. Most them were spot speed with speeds measured at specific locations on curves (usually midpoint the curve) and tangents to determine acceleration deceleration rates. Fewer adopted an estimated value 0.85 m/s2 for both rates while approaching departing curves, respectively. In this...

OBJECTIVE To examine the difference between schizophrenia patients and normal controls on velocity and acceleration of saccade, by using the basic visually guided saccade (VGS) paradigm. METHODS Eighteen schizophrenia outpatients and fourteen normal controls participated in the VGS task. Multiple indicators, including amplitude, duration, velocity, latency, accuracy rate, acceleration, and de...

CMB observables have largely fixed the expansion history of the universe in the deceleration regime and provided two self-calibrated absolute standards for dark energy studies: the sound horizon at recombination as a standard ruler and the amplitude of initial density fluctuations. We review these inferences and expose the testable assumptions about recombination and reionization that underly t...