Load theory of attention proposes that distractor processing is reduced in tasks with high perceptual load that exhaust attentional capacity within task-relevant processing. In contrast, tasks of low perceptual load leave spare capacity that spills over, resulting in the perception of task-irrelevant, potentially distracting stimuli. Tsal and Benoni (2010) find that distractor response competit...

Modern chemical legislation requires measuring the bioconcentration factor (BCF) of large numbers of chemicals in fish. The BCF must be corrected for growth dilution, because fish growth rates vary between laboratories. Two hypotheses were tested: (1) that BCFs of multiple chemicals can be measured simultaneously in one experiment, and (2) that internal benchmarking using a conservative test su...

There is now general agreement that dilution of the internal potassium solution with a non-electrolyte shifts the threshold and the inactivation curve in the direction of a more positive internal potential (1-5). At first it was not clear whether the shift was due to dilution of potassium or to a change of ionic strength. Baker et al. (3) considered that the second alternative was more likely, ...

We review the current state on the thermodynamic behavior and structural phases of selfand mutually-attractive dilute semiflexible polymers that undergo temperature-driven transitions. In extreme dilution, polymers may be considered isolated, and this single polymer undergoes a collapse or folding transition depending on the internal structure. This may go as far as to stable knot phases. Addin...

Analysis of dissolved metals in acid rock drainage (ARD) with an Agilent 4100 MP AES instrument that combines a nitrogen micro plasma with atomic emission detection (MP AES) was compared with an ICP-MS. Sample preparation consisted only of filtration, acidification (HNO3 1%) and addition of internal standard elements after appropriate dilution. In these complex matrices the systems gave identic...

Higher pressure, up to several hundred pascal relative to ambient, is generated by hygrometric pressurization within the central hollow space of the stem in Spartina alterniflora. Dilution of oxygen and nitrogen by water vapor within the plant's internal gas space results in an influx of nitrogen and oxygen from the air and a net increase in the internal gas pressure at steady state. The nature...

We have developed a quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method, using both internal and external standardisation, to quantitate fg amounts of pre-pro-thyrotropin releasing hormone (pre-pro-TRH) mRNA in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of individual laboratory rats. A constant amount of internal standard is coamplified with both the cDNA of each unknown specime...

When asked to combine two pieces of evidence, one diagnostic and one non-diagnostic, people show a dilution effect: the addition of non-diagnostic evidence dilutes the overall strength of the evidence. This non-normative effect has been found in a variety of tasks and has been taken as evidence that people inappropriately combine information. We investigated the dilution effect using simple per...