The Diffusion Entropy algorithm is a method that allows the study of correlated non-stationary time series and allows the discrimination between signal and uncorrelated noise. DE provides a quantitative measure of the complexity by means of a scaling index δ. The aim of this paper is to apply this method to study and statistically characterize Gamma-Ray Burst light curves and to introduce a met...

Cellulosic paper is thermolabile and its strength properties tend to decrease under high temperature conditions. In this work, the effects of aluminum trihydrate filler on the tensile and burst strength of paper prepared from bleached wood pulps were investigated. The use of aluminum trihydrate maintained the tensile and burst strength of paper sheet dried at 200 °C for 4 hours. Thermogravimetr...

Gamma-ray burst time histories often consist of many peaks. These peaks tend to be narrower at higher energy. If gamma-ray bursts are cos-mological, the energy dependence of gamma-ray burst time scales must be understood in order to correct the time scale dependence due to the expansion of the universe. By using the average autocorrelation function and the average pulse width, we show that the ...

Erythroid progenitors from 1 8 fetal livers (7-1 5-wk gestational period) and 1 3 normal adult marrows were grown in methylcellubose cultures containing erythropoietin (Ep) and burst-enhancing factor(s) (BEF). Additional experiments were carried out on 1 fetal, 1 5 neonatal. and 26 adult blood specimens. Three classes of progenitors (primitive or mature erythroid burst-forming unit(s). P-BFU-E....

We provided separate bivariate log-normal distribution fits to the BATSE short and long burst samples using the durations and fluences. We show that these fits present an evidence for a power-law dependence between the fluence and the duration, with a statistically significant different index for the long and short groups. We argue that the effect is probably real, and the two subgroups are dif...

We tested the hypothesis that differences in sympathetic reflex responses to head-up tilt (HUT) between males (n = 9) and females (n = 8) were associated with decrements in postural vasomotor responses in women. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA; microneurography), heart rate, stroke volume (SV; Doppler), and blood pressure (Finapres) were measured during a progressive HUT protocol (5 min...

BACKGROUND Sevoflurane-induced respiratory depression has been reported to be due to the action on medullary respiratory and phrenic motor neurons. These results were obtained from extracellular recordings of the neurons. Here, the authors made intracellular recordings of respiratory neurons and analyzed their membrane properties during sevoflurane application. Furthermore, they clarified the r...

We present a statistical analysis of the X-ray bursts observed from the 2002 June 18 outburst of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP) 1E 2259+586, observed with the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. We show that the properties of these bursts are similar to those of Soft Gamma-Repeaters (SGRs). The similarities we find are the burst durations follow a log-norm...