The effect of flash luminance on the relationship of oscillatory potential (OP) amplitude, as a measurement of inner retinal function, to a-wave slope, as a measurement of photoreceptor function, was evaluated in full-field electroretinograms recorded from normal subjects. The ratio of OP amplitude to a-wave slope was found to be independent of flash luminance over a 3000-fold luminance range. ...

The effect of small-amplitude noise on excitable systems with large time-scale separation is analyzed. It is found that small random perturbations of the fast excitatory variable result in the onset of a quasi-deterministic limit cycle behavior, absent without noise. The limit cycle is established at a critical value of the amplitude of the noise, and its period is nontrivially determined by th...

The effect of amiloride on glycinergic transmission in mechanically dissociated rat spinal dorsal horn neurons was examined with the use of whole-cell patch-clamp recording. Amiloride reversibly reduced both the frequency and amplitude of spontaneous glycinergic miniature IPSCs (mIPSCs) and its inhibitory effect on glycinergic mIPSCs persisted in either Ca2+-free or Na+-free external solutions ...

Forward-backward charge asymmetry in rare dilepton B-decays is formulated with the assumption of an on-shell b-quark. We find the asymmetry is expressed in terms of two spatially transverse helicity amplitudes, which are determined by combining the data of D → K(892) l+ν with heavy flavour symmetry. We estimate the charge asymmetry of B → K(892) l+l− for large energy leptons against various top...

Prediction interval is awidely used tool in industrial applications to predict the distribution of future observations. The exact minimum coverage probability and the average coverage probability of the conventional prediction interval for a discrete random variable have not been accurately derived in the literature. In this paper, procedures to compute the exact minimumconfidence levels and th...

Abstract. A lower bound on the misclassification probability for a finite number of classes is obtained in terms of the total variation norms of the differences between the sub-distributions over the classes. This bound, which is shown to be exact in a certain rather strong sense, is based on an exact upper bound on the difference between the maximum and the mean of a finite set of real numbers...

5 To be submitted to Paleoceanography. The accuracy of geologic chronologies can, in principle, be improved through 6 orbital tuning, the systematic adjustment of a chronology to bring the as-7 sociated record into greater alignment with an orbitally derived signal. It would 8 be useful to have a general test for the success of orbital tuning, and one pro-9 posal has been that eccentricity ough...

Traveling waves in one-dimensional nonlinear periodic structures are investigated for low-amplitude oscillations using perturbation analysis. We use second-order multiple scales analysis to capture the effect of quadratic nonlinearity. Comparisons with the linear and cubical nonlinear cases are presented in the dispersion relationship, group velocity and phase velocity and their dependence on w...

Amplitude representations of a binary phase-field-crystal model are developed for a two-dimensional triangular lattice and three-dimensional bcc and fcc crystal structures. The relationship between these amplitude equations and the standard phase-field models for binary-alloy solidification with elasticity are derived, providing an explicit connection between phase-field-crystal and phase-field...

A short, and definitely not a complete representation of η production processes on hadrons is given. First of all, the different ways of obtaining the πN → ηN and πN → ηN amplitudes are presented. After that, an overview of results obtained using these amplitudes as input for calculating processes like: N N → ηN N , pd → η 3 He, πd → ηN N and ηd, η 3 He and η 4 He as well as η-light nuclei bond...