Long-term whole-body monitoring of radionuclides in residents of the Urals Region has been performed at the Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine (URCRM, Chelyabinsk). Quantification of 40K was achieved by measuring the 40K photopeak with four phoswich detectors in whole body counter SICH-9.1M. The current study presents the results of 40K measurements in 3,651 women and 1,961 t-test; U-...

When asked to maintain their gaze steady on a given location, humans continually perform microscopic eye movements, including fast gaze shifts known as microsaccades. It has long been speculated that these movements may contribute to the maintenance of fixation, but evidence has remained contradictory. We used a miniaturized version of saccadic adaptation, an experimental procedure by which mot...

Speed and traffic volume data are collected on different sections of four lane and six lane roads in three metropolitan cities in India. Speed data are analyzed to fit the statistical distribution to individual vehicle speed data and all vehicles speed data. It is noted that speed data of individual vehicle generally follows a normal distribution but speed data of all vehicle combined at a sect...

The nonhyperbolic structure of synchronization dynamics is investigated in this work. We argue analytically and confirm numerically that the chaotic dynamics on the synchronization manifold exhibits an unstable dimension variability, which is an extreme form of nonhyperbolicity. We analyze the dynamics in the synchronization manifold and in its transversal direction, where a tonguelike structur...

A Best-Matching Protocol can give a company an upper hand in the supplier selection process by determining which one best satisfies the pre-defined quality and cost requirements. The Best-Matching Protocol developed enables better matches for geometrical specifications (e.g., physical components) as compared to random matches based on the evaluation of a new performance measure, Best-Fit Index ...

In 1906 the great San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed much of the city. As we approach the 100-year anniversary of that event, a critical concern is the hazard posed by another such earthquake. In this article, we examine the assumptions presently used to compute the probability of occurrence of these earthquakes. We also present the results of a numerical simulation of interacting faul...

This paper focuses on how the system behavior of highly reliable telecommunications systems can be characterized with respect to the distribution of outage durations and the escalating recovery mechanisms implemented in the system. We develop models that can be used to predict the outage distributions and identify measures that are required for a stable system.

in 2004, rodr'{i}guez-lallena and '{u}beda-flores have introduced a class of bivariate copulas which generalizes some known families such as the farlie-gumbel-morgenstern distributions. in 2006, dolati and '{u}beda-flores presented multivariate generalizations of this class. then in 2011, kim et al. generalized rodr'{i}guez-lallena and '{u}beda-flores' study to any...

Acyclic phase-type distributions form a versatile model, serving as approximations to many probability distributions in various circumstances. They exhibit special properties and characteristics that usually make their applications attractive. Compared to acyclic continuous phase-type (ACPH) distributions, acyclic discrete phase-type (ADPH) distributions and their subclasses (ADPH family) have ...