The paper deals with the results of the studies aimed to validate the criterion of prediction of human tolerance to longitudinal tailward accelerations on the basis of structural changes in cardiac rhythm recorded directly during exposure. The experiments have been done on centrifuge with recording the sequences of cardiac intervals at rest and each stage of exposure with successively increasin...

In the image, we address a complex image registration issue arising when the dependencies between intensities of images to be registered are not spatially homogeneous. Such a situation is frequently encountered in medical imaging when a pathology present in one of the images modifies locally intensity dependencies observed on normal tissues. Usual image registration models, which are based on a...

The objectives of this study were 1) to examine the genetic relationship between growth and carcass traits and carcass price (CaP) and profitability in Japanese Brown cattle, 2) to estimate economic values of carcass and growth traits as regression coefficients of price and profit traits on growth and carcass traits using a multiple regression model, and 3) to compare direct and indirect predic...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to establish activity intensity cut-points for the GENEA accelerometer via calibration with oxygen consumption (V˙⁡O(2)). DESIGN The study was a lab-based validation and calibration study. METHODS Forty-four children, aged 8-14 years, completed eight activities (ranging from lying supine to a medium paced run) whilst wearing GENEA accelerometers at th...

High-utility itemset mining is the task of finding the sets of items that yield a high utility (e.g. profit) in quantitative transaction databases. An important limitation of previous work on high-utility itemset mining is that utility is generally used as the sole criterion for assessing the interestingness of patterns. This leads to finding many itemsets that have a high profit but contain it...

Performance-based regulation (PBR) is influenced by the Bayesian and non-Bayesian incentive mechanisms. While Bayesian incentives are impractical, the insights from their properties can be combined with practical non-Bayesian mechanisms for application to transmission pricing. This combination suggests an approach based on the distinction between ultra-short, short and long periods. Ultra-short...

This paper examines risk-averse and risk-seeking investor preferences for oil spot and futures prices by using the mean-variance (MV) criterion and stochastic dominance (SD) approach. The MV findings cannot distinguish between the preferences of spot and futures markets. However, the SD tests show that spot dominates futures in the downside risk, while futures dominate spot in the upside profit...