Dynamic Energy Budget theory meets individual-based modelling: a generic and accessible implementation Benjamin T. Martin*, Elke I. Zimmer, Volker Grimm and Tjalling Jager Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; and FALW ⁄Department of Theoretical Biology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam...

The sodium-activated potassium channels Slick (Slo2.1, KCNT2) and Slack (Slo2.2, KCNT1) are high-conductance potassium channels of the Slo family. In neurons, Slick and Slack channels are involved in the generation of slow afterhyperpolarization, in the regulation of firing patterns, and in setting and stabilizing the resting membrane potential. The distribution and subcellular localization of ...

We examine the relation between firms’ real earnings management decisions and the slack in their net worth debt covenant. Using private debt covenant data, we find that the overall level of real earnings management is higher when net worth covenant slack is tighter. Moreover, we find that this effect is more pronounced for loan-years with the tightest slack, which is a setting where benefits of...

Real-time applications are ubiquitous in generalpurpose computing environments, while the real-time systems are growing in complexity. Thus in these hybrid real-time systems, schedulers must guarantee that all hard real-time jobs be completed before their deadlines and improve QoS of soft real-time tasks as much as possible. Towards this goal we have proposed a new slack reclaiming algorithm fo...

Slack and margin rescaling are variants of the structured output SVM. They define convex surrogates to task specific loss functions, which, when specialized to nonadditive loss functions for multi-label problems, yield extensions to increasing set functions. We demonstrate in this paper that we may use these concepts to define polynomial time convex extensions of arbitrary supermodular function...

Inflammatory mediators through the activation of the protein kinase A (PKA) pathway sensitize primary afferent nociceptors to mechanical, thermal, and osmotic stimuli. However, it is unclear which ion conductances are responsible for PKA-induced nociceptor hyperexcitability. We have previously shown the abundant expression of Slack sodium-activated potassium (K(Na)) channels in nociceptive dors...

The Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) has been introduced to address the problem of anomaly (or outlier) detection. It essentially fits the smallest possible sphere around the given data points, allowing some points to be excluded as outliers. Whether or not a point is excluded, is governed by a slack variable. Mathematically, the values for the slack variables are obtained by minimizing a...

Abstract Do different loan application formats affect consumer requests? Six studies show that when consumers are asked to provide a preferred monthly payment (vs. amount), they request principal amounts. This is because these differ in the scale-compatible information bring consumers’ mind. When amounts elicited, think of and cost expenditure seek finance. payments however, their budget slack ...

This paper introduces a new methodology ensuring units invariant slack selection in radial DEA models and incorporating the slacks into an overall efficiency score. The CCR and BCC models are units invariant in their radial component, but not in their slack component, thus changing the units of measurement of one or more variables can change the models’ solution. The proposed Full Proportional ...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the influence of muscle-tendon complex stretch on electromechanical delay (EMD) in terms of the extent of tendon slack in the human medial gastrocnemius (MG). EMD and MG tendon length were measured at each of five ankle joint angles (-30, -20, -10, 0, and 5 degrees : positive values for dorsiflexion) using percutaneous electrical stimulation and ultrason...