Population ageing is a major issue for society in the next years, especially because of theincrease of dependent people. The limits in specialized institutes capacity and the wish of theelderly to stay at home as long as possible explain a growing need for new specific at home services.Technologies can help securing the person at home by detecting falls. They can also help in th...

This paper presents exact joint confidence regions for the parameters of the Rayleigh distribution based on record data. By providing some appropriate pivotal quantities, we construct several joint confidence regions for the Rayleigh parameters. These joint confidence regions are useful for constructing confidence regions for functions of the unknown parameters. Applications of the joint confid...

The perceptual relevance of changes to glottal-pulse parameters is studied. First, it is demonstrated that a distance measure based on excitation patterns can predict audibility discrimination thresholds for small changes to the R parameters of the Liljencrants-Fant (LF) model. Next, by using this measure the perceptual relevance of the LF parameters is quantified. Results are presented for a n...

A family of threshold parameters which probe the stability of chiral predictions is considered. The relevant criteria for the choice of threshold parameters are discussed. Sum rules for these quantities are derived from dispersion relations and evaluated from effective range formulae. Good agreement with two-loop chiral estimates for many of these quantities is found and interesting discrepanci...

The high degree of parasitic variability in Heterodera glycines and its distribution in a wide range of soybean production systems present multiple challenges for management, which necessitate increased understanding of the biology of H. glycines. Soil amendments are being considered either as stand-alone and/or as part of integrated management approaches. A recycled municipal biosolid with nut...

Abundance calculations for the p-nuclei involve an extended network of about 20,000 nuclear reactions of almost 2,000 nuclei. These rates are calculated with the statistical Hauser Feshbach Model (HF-Model). Elastic scattering experimental data provides a test for the global parameterizations of optical potentials that are used in these statistical model calculations. Recent experiments suggest...

In this paper, non-standard tight closure is proposed as an alternative for classical tight closure on finitely generated algebras over C. It has the advantage that it admits a functional definition, similar to the characteristic p definition of tight closure, where instead of the characteristic p Frobenius, its ultraproduct, the non-standard Frobenius, is used. This new closure operation cl(·)...

This paper presents the results of a pitch accent categorisation simulation which attempts to classify L*H and H*L accents using a psychologically motivated exemplar-theoretic model of categorisation. Pitch accents are represented in terms of six linguistically meaningful parameters describing their shape. No additional information is employed in the categorisation process. The results indicate...

BWB investigate whether exchange rate unpredictability is due to instabilities of the relationship between exchange rates and its fundamentals. In their exercise, BWB calibrate on actual data a model where the parameters linking exchange rates and fundamentals are allowed to change over time. BWB find that the pattern of out-of-sample (un)predictability assessed on data generated from a fixed c...

1 Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68182-0681, [email protected]. Abstract  The purpose of this paper is to show the merits of using the order-of-magnitude analysis in engineering education to solve engineering and science problems, e.g., taken from the fields of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. By this approach, the engineering stude...