abstract   background: the survival curves generally have been used for analysis of cell survival under stress conditions. they depict the relationship between the fraction of cells retaining their reproductive integrity and the absorbed dose. the median lethal dose, lethal concentration, 50% (lc 50 ) of a  toxin ,  radiation , or  pathogen  is the  dose required to kill half the members of a t...

this work presents a numerical analysis of entropy generation in γ-shaped enclosure that was submitted to the natural convection process using a simple thermal lattice boltzmann method (tlbm) with the boussinesq approximation.  a 2d thermal lattice boltzmann method with 9 velocities, d2q9, is used to solve the thermal flow problem. the simulations are performed at a constant prandtl number (pr ...

conclusions the loss of hrc at the onset of admission may predict mortality in patients with blunt trauma. lower entropy, in recently admitted patients with intra-abdominal bleeding, may indicate laparotomy when the vital signs are stable. background nonlinear analysis of heart rate variability (hrv) has been recently used as a predictor of prognosis in trauma patients. objectives we applied no...

business cost is acknowledged as one of the priorities in smes research. in thisstudy, the business cost of smes in shanghai was primarily measured using factor-entropy analysis method. the purpose of this study is to effectively resolve the issueof simplification and assignment evaluation index system on business costs of smesin shanghai. however, this study uses factor analysis to interpret t...

Shannon entropy of a probability measure P , defined as − ∫ X dP dμ ln dP dμ dμ on a measure space (X,M, μ), is not a natural extension from the discrete case. However, maximum entropy (ME) prescriptions of Shannon entropy functional in the measure-theoretic case are consistent with those for the discrete case. Also it is well known that Kullback-Leibler relative entropy can be extended natural...

In this paper, we show that in order to obtain the Tsallis entropy rate for stochastic processes, we can use the limit of conditional entropy, as it was done for the case of Shannon and Renyi entropy rates. Using that we can obtain Tsallis entropy rate for stationary Gaussian processes. Finally, we derive the relation between Renyi, Shannon and Tsallis entropy rates for stationary Gaussian proc...

This review provides a summary of methods originated in (non-equilibrium) statistical mechanics and information theory, which have recently found successful applications to quantitatively studying complexity in various components of the complex Entropy 2013, 15 4845 system Earth. Specifically, we discuss two classes of methods: (i) entropies of different kinds (e.g., on the one hand classical S...

This paper denes and investigates the ergodic proper-ties of the entropy of a countable partition of a fuzzy dynamical sys-tem at different points of the state space. It ultimately introducesthe local fuzzy entropy of a fuzzy dynamical system and proves itto be an isomorphism invariant.

The time evaluation of quantum entropy in a four-level double- type atomic system is theoretically investigated. Quantum entanglement of the atom and its spontaneous emission fields is then discussed via quantum entropy. It is found that the degree of entanglement can be increased by the quantum interference induced by spontaneous emission. The phase dependence of the atom-field entanglement is...