This paper presents a large-scale study of silent pause duration, based on the analysis of ca. 6000 pauses in 5 1⁄2 hours of read and spontaneous speech in five languages. The distribution of pauses appears as trimodal, suggesting a categorization in brief (< 200 ms), medium (200-1000 ms) and long (> 1000 ms) pauses, the latter occurring only in spontaneous speech. The study reveals possible me...

Among the early indications of the existence of supertasters, tasters and non-tasters was a trimodal distribution of sensitivities to the taste of low concentrations of caffeine in water. A similar three peaks of prevalence have now been seen in the concentration of caffeine in the individual’s usual coffee drink that is perceived as the most preferred, measured by normed multiple discriminatio...

The biotopical distribution, size and age structure of the population, nocturnal activity rhythm feeding mottled scorpion (Mesobuthus eupeus) were studied. research was conducted on left bank Pirsagat river (Shirvan plain, Istern Azerbaijan). All discovered individuals scorpions divided into 5 groups by length metasome. distribution had a pronounced aggregated character with formation local clu...

Airborne measurements of the concentration and size distribution submicron aerosols are made from 6 to 24 August 2002 over Arabian Sea during Monsoon Experiment (ARMEX). Results show that aerosol concentrations at 0.9 km altitude larger if mixing layer depth is more than this height. Further, values 5.1 – kms one three orders magnitude higher air mass being advected central or deserts in compar...

Epistatic interactions, manifested in the effects of mutations on the phenotypes caused by other mutations, may help uncover the functional organization of complex biological networks1–3. Here, we studied system-level epistatic interactions by computing growth phenotypes of all single and double knockouts of 890 metabolic genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, using the framework of flux balance an...

Temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry ~MDSC! measurements on SixSe12x glasses show glass transitions to be thermally reversing in character in the composition window 0.20,x,0.27. Raman scattering shows a trimodal distribution of vibrational modes, identified with corner-sharing ~CS!, edge-sharing ~ES!, and Se-chain modes ~CM!. In the floppy region, 0,x,0.19, these modes are sy...

To determine the effect of residual enzyme activity on carrot juice cloud, 0 to 1 U/g pectin methylesterase (PME) was added to pasteurized carrot juice. Cloud stability and particle diameters were measured to quantify juice cloud stability and clarification for 56 days of storage. All levels of PME addition resulted in clarification; higher amounts had a modest effect in causing more rapid clar...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the mean radiographic length of styloid process in a sample of Croatian population, and based on biological basis, to suggest a classification applicable in clinical practice. Two hundred and ninety six panoramic x-rays were examined, out of which 161 from males and 135 from females. The length of the styloid process was measured and age analysis was conduc...

The life history of Confuciusornis sanctus is controversial. Recently, the species' body size spectrum was claimed to contradict osteohistological evidence for a rapid, bird-like development. Moreover, sexual size dimorphism was rejected as an explanation for the observed bimodal size distribution since the presence of elongated rectrices, an assumed 'male' trait, was uncorrelated with size. Ho...

We investigate the critical properties of the d = 3 random-field Ising model with an equalweight trimodal distribution at zero temperature. By implementing suitable graph-theoretical algorithms, we compute large ensembles of ground states for several values of the disorder strength h and system sizes up toN = 128. Using a new approach based on the sample-to-sample fluctuations of the order para...