This paper re-examines the calculation of the relative standard deviation (RSD) measure of competitive balance in leagues in which draws are possible outcomes. Some key conclusions emerging from the exchange between Cain and Haddock (2006) and Fort (2007) are reversed. There is no difference, for any given points assignment scheme, between the RSD for absolute points compared to percentages of ...

In social choice settings with linear preferences, random dictatorship is known to be the only social decision scheme satisfying strategyproofness and ex post efficiency. When also allowing indifferences, random serial dictatorship (RSD) is a well-known generalization of random dictatorship that retains both properties. RSD has been particularly successful in the special domain of random assign...

Most studies of input data used in hydrological models have focused on flow; however, point discharge data negligibly reflect deviations in spatial input data. To study the effects of different input data sources on hydrological processes at the catchment scale, eight MIKE SHE models driven by station-based data (SBD) and remote sensing data (RSD) were implemented. The significant influences of...

Method validation was performed by QuEChERS method to determine the plant growth regulators abscisic acid, giberallic acid and paclobutrazole residues using LC-MS/MS. The validated according limit of detection (LOD), limits quantification (LOQ), linearity, accuracy recovery. Calibration with matrix used elimination effect. linearity three PGR were determined range 10-200 μg mL-1. All correlatio...

The extinct giant moa Dinornis is one of the most remarkable known examples of reversed sexual size dimorphism (RSD), with males weighing 34-85 kg, but females weighing up to 240 kg. However, there has been little consideration of the evolutionary mechanism that produced this level of dimorphism, and most living palaeognaths also exhibit varying levels of RSD. Using male and female body mass da...

A method was validated for the determination of the 2 main components of bee venom, phospholipase A2 and melittin, by capillary electrophesis (CE). Optimum resolution and selectivity were attained with a running electrolyte of 150 mM phosphoric acid, pH 1.8. The repeatability and day-to-day reproducibility of the migration times were better than 0.36 and 2.8%, respectively. The repeatability an...

Radar rainrate estimates are prone to a high degree of uncertainty due to several error sources, among which the space-time variability of the raindrop size distribution (RSD). Polarimetric radar measurements enable the use of combined algorithms which reduce the sensitivity to the variability of the RSD. The aim of this work is to develop a new procedure to retrieve the RSD parameters which ca...

BACKGROUND Recently, catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation (RSD) has been verified to be safely used to substantially reduce the levels of blood pressure, left ventricular hypertrophy, sleep apnea severity and norepinephrine spillover, and improve glucose tolerance. All these pathological changes are recognized as independent risk factors for the development and recurrence of atrial fibr...

A new generation algorithm for the base-K logarithm is presented. Intermediate results for computation of the logarithm are presented in the redundant signed digit (RSD) representation, and additions and subtractions were performed without carry propagation. Based on the properties of RSD arithmetic, higher performance is obtained as compared with the conventional logarithm in the classical bin...

We define and compare a selection of congruence properties of quasivarieties, including the relative congruence meet semi-distributivity, RSD(∧), and the weak extension property, WEP. We prove that if K ⊆ L ⊆ L′ are quasivarieties of finite signature, and L′ is finitely generated while K |= WEP, then K is finitely axiomatizable relative to L. We prove for any quasivariety K that K |= RSD(∧) iff...