• Bone mineral density (BMD) is used as an indicator of osteoporosis. BMD is measured and quantified by T-score, whose units are standard deviations relative to that of young, healthy adults (Young Adult Mean [YAM]). The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) defines osteoporosis as a T-score of -2.5 or lower, i.e., worse. Severe osteoporosis is defined as a T-score of -2.5 or lower, and p...

Running title: Feature-based attention and pupil size 8 Corresponding Author: 9 Paola Binda, PhD 10 Universita’ di Pisa, Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in 11 Medicine and Surgery 12 via San Zeno 31, 56126 Pisa (Italy) 13 Office: +39-050-3153185 14 [email protected] 15 16 17 The authors declare no competing financial interests 18 19 Acknowledgments 20 This research was...

This paper develops a game-theoretic model of heterogeneous consumers to analyze the effect of cooperative involvement on quality-enhancing product innovation activity, the pricing of food products, and the welfare of the groups involved in the context of a mixed duopoly where an openmembership consumer co-op competes with an IOF. Analytical results show that the involvement of the member welfa...

Regressor selection can be viewed as the rst step in the system identi cation process. The bene ts of nding good regressors before estimating complex models are especially clear for nonlinear systems, where the class of possible models is huge. In this article, a structured way of using the tool Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is presented and used for NARX model (nonlinear autoregressive model wi...

Abstract: In order that the nth-order Generalized Frequency Response Function (GFRF) for nonlinear systems described by a NARX model can be directly written into a more straightforward and meaningful form in terms of the first order GFRF and model parameters, the nth-order GFRF is now determined by a new mapping function based on a parametric characteristic. This can explicitly unveil the linea...

In practice, it is usually difficult to obtain the physical model of nonlinear, rotor-bearing systems due to uncertain nonlinearities. In order to solve this issue to conduct the analysis and design of nonlinear, rotor-bearing systems, in this study, a data driven NARX (Nonlinear Auto-Regressive with exogenous inputs) model is identified. Due to the lack of the random input signal which is requ...

a 2 × 3 factorial experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of enzyme endofeed w (eew) at 0 and 0.05%, thyme essential oil (teo), probiotic primalac® (pp) and non-feed additive, on intestinal histomorphology of broilers fed wheat-based diet. each of the 6 dietary treatments was replicated 4 times with 12 chicks each from 0 to 42 days of age. there was no interaction between enzyme and ...

this article is an attempt to survey the contraction and cancellation of the reuter’s agreement as a one-sided approach and from special perspective, by using minimalistic ideology and with emphasis on multi-sided and various reasons and factors effective in the process of this contract.  on the basis of this research, in this contraction, different factors came together and augmented one anoth...