Theoretical analysis of own and literature investigations of sexual motivation with the use of the partition test [Kudryavtseva, 1987, 1994] in male mice was carried out. It has been shown that appearance of a receptive female in the neighboring compartment of common cage separated by perforated transparent partition produces the enhancement of testosterone level in blood and stimulates the beh...

Distributed catchment models are widely used tools for predicting hydrologic behavior. While distributed models require many parameters to describe a system, they are expected to simulate behavior that is more consistent with observed processes. However, obtaining a single set of acceptable parameters can be problematic, as parameter equifinality often results in several “behavioral” sets that ...

We consider leptogenesis induced by soft supersymmetry breaking terms (“soft leptogenesis”), in the context of the inverse seesaw mechanism. In this model there are lepton number (L) conserving and L-violating soft supersymmetry-breaking B-terms involving the singlet sneutrinos which, together with the – generically small– L-violating parameter responsible of the neutrino mass, give a small mas...

Population ageing is a major issue for society in the next years, especially because of theincrease of dependent people. The limits in specialized institutes capacity and the wish of theelderly to stay at home as long as possible explain a growing need for new specific at home services.Technologies can help securing the person at home by detecting falls. They can also help in th...

Hybrid energyYeconomy models combine the advantages of a technologically explicit bottomYup model with the behavioral realism sought after by topYdown models in order to help policymakers assess the likely technology-specific response and economy-wide impact of policies to induce technological change. We use a discrete choice survey to estimate key technology choice parameters for a hybrid mode...

Correlations between environmental parameters (thermal range and noxious gas levels) and the status (productivity, physiological, and behavioral) of growing pigs were examined for the benefit of pig welfare and precision farming. The livestock experiment was conducted at a Seoul National University station in South Korea. Many variations were applied and the physiological and behavioral respons...

Despite wide use of cumulative-dosing procedures to evaluate dose-response relations, limited attention has been paid to investigating drug concentration-effect relations. We first characterized the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters for i.v. (2 mg/kg) and oral cocaine (20 and 40 mg/kg) in rats. Cocaine's concentration-time profile for the escalating cumulative-dose regimen was simulated from PK p...

New chemical analogs as well as 2 main components, PA and PB, of the sex pheromone of Periplaneta americana L. have been studied by our original behavioral technique and electroantennogram recording. Behavioral assays included measurements of dose–response relationship and testing the effect of the analogs on peri-planones perception. Among 9 analogs, 7 elicited typical sex behavior of males. A...

Using the behavioral model of a circuit to perform Behavioral Monte Carlo Simulation (BMCS) is a fast approach to estimate performance shift under process variation with detailed circuit responses. However, accurate Monte Carlo analysis results are difficult to obtain if the behavioral model is not accurate enough. Therefore, this paper proposes to use an efficient bottom-up approach to generat...