This interesting study is similar to the study by Bazant and Najjar (1973) [extensively reviewed in Section 5.5 of Bazant (1975)], which apparently escaped the attention of the authors. However, the conclusion in which the authors recommend the effective modulus method, is different. It appears unwarranted and conflicts with more extensive evidence. The authors dismiss the age-adjusted effectiv...

New challenges have arisen with the development of large marker panels for livestock species. Models easily become overparameterized when all available markers are included. Solutions have led to the development of shrinkage or regularization techniques. The objective of this study was the application and comparison of Bayesian LASSO (B-L), thick-tailed (Student-t), and semiparametric multiple ...

In this paper we propose a chi-square test for identification. Our proposed test statistic is based on the distance between two biascorrected shrinkage extremum estimators. The two estimators converge in probability to the same limit when identification is strong, and they converge weakly to different random variables when identification is weak. The proposed test is consistent not only for the...

a method based on machine vision system (mvs) is hereby employed to evaluate grape drying through an assessment of the fruit’s shrinkage and quality during the dehydration. experimental data as well as captured images are obtained at an air velocity of 1.4 m s-1 and different drying temperatures (50, 60, 70ºc). the results indicated the effect of temperature on the moisture content, shrinkage a...

We study the connections between discrete one-dimensional schemes for nonlinear diffusion and shift-invariant Haar wavelet shrinkage. We show that one step of (stabilised) explicit discretisation of nonlinear diffusion can be expressed in terms of wavelet shrinkage on a single spatial level. This equivalence allows a fruitful exchange of ideas between the two fields. In this paper we derive new...

wavelet shrinkage denoising approach is able to maintain local regularity of a signal while suppressing noise. However, the conventional wavelet shrinkage based methods are not timescale adaptive to track the local timescale variation. In this paper, a new type of Neural Shrinkage (NS) is presented with a new class of shrinkage architecture for speckle reduction in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between hygroscopic expansion and polymerization shrinkage for compensation of polymerization shrinkage stresses in a restored tooth. One resin-modified glass-ionomer (RMGI) (Ketac Nano, 3M ESPE), 2 compomers (Dyract, Dentsply; Compoglass, Ivoclar), and a universal resin-based composite (Esthet•X HD, Dentsply) were tested. Volumetric...

For a soil to be granulometrically stable, it must present low plasticity and granulometric composition that conforms with the limits regulated by standards. This article presents study of clay fraction activity three laterites from Triângulo Mineiro region, aiming use them in stabilized base. The experimental phase contained determination liquidity limit, plastic sand equivalent silica sesquio...