Medical ultrasound echo signals provide the basic information for obtaining the ultrasonic image in medical ultrasound technology. The statistics of the ultrasound echo signals reveals the systematic structure of the medical ultrasonic image via analyzing the corresponding statistical distributions. A novel statistical distribution, the ascending order K distribution, was proposed here to model...

AgeFactDB (http://agefactdb.jenage.de) is a database aimed at the collection and integration of ageing phenotype data including lifespan information. Ageing factors are considered to be genes, chemical compounds or other factors such as dietary restriction, whose action results in a changed lifespan or another ageing phenotype. Any information related to the effects of ageing factors is called ...

We estimate the statistical distribution of relative orientations between contacting residues from a database of protein structures and evaluate the potential of mean force for relative orientations between contacting residues. Polar angles and Euler angles are used to specify two degrees of directional freedom and three degrees of rotational freedom for the orientation of one residue relative ...

The aim of nuclear power plant ageing management is to maintain an adequate safety level throughout the lifetime of the plant. In ageing studies, the reliability of components, systems and structures is evaluated taking into account the possible time-dependent degradation. The phases of ageing analyses are generally the identification of critical components, identification and evaluation of age...

to study the effects of different levels of seed ageing and bacteria inoculation on yield of common bean at field conditions, an experiment was carried out as factorial arranged in rcbd design with three replications at research farm of university of tehran (karaj-iran) in 2012. treatments consisted of four levels of seed ageing (0 (control), 3, 6 and 9 days at 41°c and 90-100% relative humidit...

objective: ageing of the stored seed is a natural phenomenon and the seeds tend to lose viability even under ideal storage conditions. accelerated ageing has been recognized as a good predictor of the storability of seed lots. aged seeds show decreased vigor and produce weak seedlings that are unable to survive once reintroduced into a habitat. the characteristics of the chemical composition of...

Insight into risks of nanotechnology and the use of nanoparticles is an essential condition for the social acceptance and safe use of nanotechnology. One of the problems with which the risk assessment of nanoparticles is faced is the lack of data, resulting in uncertainty in the risk assessment. We attempt to quantify some of this uncertainty by expanding a previous deterministic study on nanos...

We used a countermanding paradigm to investigate the relationship between conflicting cues for controlling human saccades. Subjects made a saccade to a target appearing suddenly in the periphery; but on some trials, after a delay, a stop-signal was presented that instructed subjects to inhibit the saccade. As we increased this delay, subjects increasingly failed to inhibit the movement. From me...

During the second year of life, the rate at which most children learn words accelerates dramatically, the so–called “vocabulary explosion”. Most accounts posit changes in the child or specialized learning mechanisms to account for this sudden change. However, recently McMurray (2007) demonstrated that acceleration is a mathematical consequence of parallel learning and the statistical distributi...