We studied the ranging behavior of translocated and non-translocated groups of Alouatta pigra in Belize, Central America from March 1994 to May 1995. Home range size, day-range length and monthly range size were determined for all groups. In high density populations, home range size and day-range length increased with group size. Home range size increased with translocation to a low density pop...

Participants in an eye-movement experiment performed a modified version of the Landolt-C paradigm (Williams & Pollatsek, 2007) in which they searched for target squares embedded in linear arrays of spatially contiguous “words” (i.e., short sequences of squares having missing segments of variable size and orientation). Although the distributions of singleand first-of-multiple fixation locations ...

Background Various sizes of implants need to be available during surgery. The purpose of this paper is to compare body height and shoe size with implant sizes in patients who underwent total knee replacement surgery to see which biomarker is a better predictor for preoperative planning to determine implant size. Methods A total of 100 knees, belonging to 50 females and 50 males, were observed...

This study proposes feature selection techniques to obtain a set of significant foot anthropometric measurements that can assist custumers in the choice of footwear size and width. The results given by a number of methods are averaged to provide a reliable set of features. Several machine learning methods are used to evaluate the classification (for the width) and regression (for the size) accu...

Observers indicated whether two vertically presented bars were aligned one above the other (same trials) or were offset by an amount equal to the width of the bars on that trial (different trials). Retinal size was varied by using bars of three different widths (wide, medium, narrow). On different trials, reaction time to make correct responses was longer for narrow stimuli than for the other t...

In this paper we study how to design a scheduling strategy aimed at minimizing the average holding cost for flows with general size distribution when the feasible transmission rate of each user varies randomly over time. We employ a Whittle-index-based approach in order to achieve an opportunistic and nonanticipating size-aware scheduling index rule proposal. When the flow size distribution bel...

The idea that language is a homogeneous code is a massive simplification. In actual fact, we constantly use a wide array of codes, be they other languages, dialects, registers, or special purpose codes (for bank account numbers, book numbers, shoe sizes, and so on). In this paper we provide a formal analysis of code switching.

This paper presents recent observations obtained on the study of electron cloud induced instabilities and emittance growth on positron beams at the Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring Test Acceleartor (CesrTA), and the simulation of these phenomena under similar beam conditions using the program CMAD. Results show that the transition to large bunch oscillations ocurrs at similar electron clo...

Ultrafine vehicular particle (<100 nm) number size distributions presented in the literature are mostly averages of long scan-time (∼30 s or more) spectra mainly due to the non-availability of commercial instruments that can measure particle distributions in the <10 nm to 100 nm range faster than 30 s even though individual researchers have built faster (1–2.5 s) scanning instruments. With the ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether maternal prepregnancy shoe size can be used to reliably predict infant birth weight. METHOD This is a cross-sectional study of 111 consecutive patients admitted to the maternity care unit of a small community hospital. Data collected included prepregnancy height, maternal weight, maternal shoe size, maternal age, gravidity, parity, ethnicity, and method of deliv...