For randomized block designs, nonparametric treatment comparisons are usually made using the Friedman test for complete designs, and the Durbin test for incomplete designs; see, for example, Conover (1998). This permits assessment of only the mean rankings. Such comparisons are here extended to permit assessments of bivariate effects such as the linear by linear effect and the quadratic by line...

ZiYuan3-02 (ZY3-02) is the first remote sensing satellite for the development of China’s civil space infrastructure (CCSI) and the second satellite in the ZiYuan3 series; it was launched successfully on 30 May 2016, aboard the CZ-4B rocket at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) in China. Core payloads of ZY3-02 include a triple linear array camera (TLC) and a multi-spectral camera, and t...

Reduced alertness and high levels of cognitive fatigue due to sleep loss bring forth substantial risks in today’s 24/7 society. Biomathematical models can be used to help mitigate such risks by predicting quantitative levels of fatigue under sleep loss. These models help manage risk by providing information on the timing at which high levels of fatigue will occur; countermeasures can then be ta...

a a a Introduction Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has emerged during the last decade as the main non-invasive technique for the investigation of human brain function. More recently some studies have been conducted also to reveal the activation in the human spinal cord [1-2], albeit the characteristics of functional contrast are still debated [3] (even its BOLD origin has been chal...

The purpose of this manuscript is to describe a theoretical paradigm from which to more accurately assess linear sprinting performance. More importantly, the model describes how to interpret test results in order to pinpoint weaknesses in linear sprinting performance and design subsequent training programs. A retrospective, quasi-experimental cross sectional analysis was performed using 86 Divi...

INTRODUCTION Sugar and sorbite are well known to be convenient and suitable materials for chemiluminescence(CL) as well as electron spin resonance(ESR) dosimetry, in particular for retrospective dose assessment in an emergency and/or accident situation, mainly because of their close tissue-equivalence. In practice, however, the dose-CL response of those materials are not always shown to be sati...

Background: Novel models for the assessment of non-linear data are being developed for the benefit of making better predictions from the data. Objective: To review traditional and modern models. Results, and Conclusions: 1) Logit and probit transformations are often successfully used to mimic a linear model. Logistic regression, Cox regression, Poisson regression, and Markow modeling are exampl...