Ž . A regionalised autoregressive exogenous variable RARX model is presented for the relationship between precipitation surplus and water table depth. The parameters of the RARX model are ‘guessed’ at unvisited locations using auxiliary information such as soil profile descriptions, Ž . topographic maps and digital elevation models DEM . In the direct method, the guessed parameters are used to ...

Indoor radon concentrations were measured in dwellings of the Puglia region in Southern Italy using LR-115 passive detectors. The results show that the radon concentrations varied from 15 ± 2 to 2166 ± 133 Bq/m³ with a geometric mean of 114 Bq/m³ and a geometric standard deviation of 2.3. An analysis on the factors affecting radon concentration such as age of the dwellings, floors, and stories,...

For a large class of distributions and large samples, it is shown that estimates of the variance σ2 and of the standard deviation σ are more often Pitman closer to their target than the corresponding shrinkage estimates which improve the mean squared error. Our results indicate that Pitman closeness criterion, despite its controversial nature, should be regarded as a useful and complementary to...

Cirrhotic nodules were assumed to be a mixture of ellipsoids of different sizes and eccentricities, and mathematical derivations were discussed to estimate the distribution, the mean and the standard deviation of their sizes with only a small number of random histological sections. Logarithms of the largest axes of nodules approximately formed a normal distribution. With intermediate results, t...

Eleven distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), processed from yellow corn, were collected from different ethanol processing plants in the US Midwest area. Particle size distribution (PSD) by mass of each sample was determined using a series of six selected US standard sieves: Nos. 8, 12, 18, 35, 60, and 100, and a pan. The original sample and sieve sized fractions were measured for surfac...

[1] Total freeboard (snow and ice) of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover is derived using Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data from two 35-day periods: one during the fall (October November) of 2005 and the other during the winter (February March) of 2006. Three approaches are used to identify near-sea-surface tiepoints. Thin ice or open water samples in new openings, typically wi...

This Letter presents a novel, computationally efficient interpolation method that has been optimised for use in electrocardiogram baseline drift removal. In the authors' previous Letter three isoelectric baseline points per heartbeat are detected, and here utilised as interpolation points. As an extension from linear interpolation, their algorithm segments the interpolation interval and utilise...

BACKGROUND The aim was to assess the agreement in the measurement of ocular aberrations between a new Adaptive Optics Vision Analyzer (AOVA, Voptica, Murcia, Spain) and a commercial aberrometer (KR-1 W, Topcon, Tokyo, Japan), both based on the Hartmann-Shack technique. METHODS One experienced examiner measured 29 healthy right eyes nine consecutive times with the two instruments. The individu...