Auditory brainstem response (ABR) threshold determination requires clinicians to identify the transition between waveforms with and without a detectable response across stimulus intensities. Automation remains challenging because responses near the t...
Dynamic task allocation is a necessity in a group of robots. Each member should decide its own task such that it is most commensurate with its current state in the overall system. In this work, the response threshold model is applied to a dynamic for...
In swarm-robotics foraging, the purpose of task allocation is to adjust the number of active foraging robots dynamically based on the task demands and changing environment. It is a difficult challenge to generate self-organized foraging behavior in w...
Thresholds can be an effective tool in conservation planning, as they can form a defensible target for habitat conservation or restoration. Generalized thresholds must be used with caution, however, as threshold responses may vary with species and sp...
24 May 2019
Groundwater depth is an important environmental factor affecting vegetation growth and landscape dynamics in arid environments. This study applied a science mapping approach to visualize the development of groundwater-vegetation-related research, syn...
The increased availability and high adoption rate of glyphosate-tolerant crops have selected for several glyphosate-resistant weed species. The response of representative weed species to glyphosate was assessed to provide insights and tools for optim...
The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a scalp recording of potentials produced by sound stimulation, and is commonly used as an indicator of auditory function. However, the ABR threshold, which is the lowest audible sound pressure, cannot be objec...
In recent years, the relationship between the executive characteristics and corporate environmental responsibility has attracted much attention from academia, especially the relationship between executive compensation and corporate environmental resp...
9 March 2023
Carrying out environmental protection and governance in the process of using foreign capital to develop the economy is a realistic problem that China needs to solve urgently. In order to reduce environmental pollution, all enterprises are called upon...
The balance between photosynthetic carbon accumulation and respiratory loss in plants varies depending on temperature. This leads to a situation where the increased need for carbon is not met when a certain temperature threshold is reached. Over the...
Studying the impact of extreme climate events on vegetation dynamics is crucial for maintaining ecosystem stability. Based on ERA5-Land temperature and precipitation data, as well as MOD13C2 data, this study employs Pearson correlation analysis, wave...
Rapid guessing is an aberrant response behavior that commonly occurs in low-stakes assessments with little to no formal consequences for students. Recently, the availability of response time (RT) information in computer-based assessments has motivate...
The surface quality of aluminum ingot is crucial for subsequent products, so it is necessary to adaptively detect different types of defects in milled aluminum ingots surfaces. In order to quickly apply the calculations to a real production line, a n...
Imaging with cosmic-ray muon-induced secondary radiation complements muon transmission radiography and muon scattering tomography by exploiting the electrons and bremsstrahlung photons created along the muon track inside the target. Because these sec...
Biodiversity response-based diagnostic tools are nonlinear approaches that simultaneously consider complex environmental stressors. Such approaches have been used to quantify biological responses to environmental changes. This study identified the ma...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping digital marketing by expanding opportunities for personalization, content generation, automation, and consumer interaction, while simultaneously raising concerns about intrusion, manipulation, a...
Image thresholding is one of the fastest and most effective methods of detecting objects in infrared images. This paper proposes an infrared image thresholding method based on the functional approximation of the histogram. The one-dimensional histogr...
Messenger RNA (mRNA) entered clinical medicine through vaccines, where the innate immune reactivity that complicates protein therapeutics acts as a built-in adjuvant. The success of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA vaccines inspired an ex...
A historical assessment of the origin of the dose–response in modern toxicology and its integration as a central concept in biology and medicine is presented. This article provides an overview of how the threshold, linear and biphasic (i.e., hormetic...
Mitochondria–nucleus communication during stress dictates cellular fate with consequences on the etiopathology of multiple age-related diseases. Impaired mitochondrial quality control through loss of function of the mitochondrial protease HtrA2...
Pharmacodynamic models of botulinum toxin type A map a mean concentration onto a smooth dose–response curve, yet the outcome is binary and arises from a finite population of near-threshold motor units. We analyse a discrete model in which N uni...
High-intensity physical exercise can induce temporary renal hemodynamic strain and subclinical tubular injury, yet the exact dose–response relationship remains poorly defined. This study investigated the relationship between exercise intensity...
The productivity and pressure response of the tight sand gas wells are influenced by multiple flow mechanisms, such as threshold pressure gradient, phase-change phenomena, and stress sensitivity. Understanding the sensitivity of these factors is cruc...
A series of new infrared nonlinear optical (IR NLO) materials, LiRe3MS7 (Re = Sm, Gd; M = Si, Ge), have been successfully synthesized in vacuum-sealed silica tubes via a high-temperature solid-state method. All of them crystallize in the non-centrosy...
Calcium signaling is crucial for many physiological processes and can mobilize intracellular calcium stores in response to environmental sensory stimuli. The endolysosomal two-pore channel (TPC), regulated by the second messenger nicotinic acid adeni...
Assessment is one benchmark in measuring students’ abilities. However, assessment results cannot necessarily be trusted, because students sometimes cheat or even guess in answering the questions. Therefore, to obtain valid results, it is necess...
Climate change is intensifying drought stress in temperate forests, yet the mechanisms governing gradual versus threshold responses remain unclear, limiting adaptive management. This study tested whether tree morphological traits can help detect thes...
In order to deeply understand the effect mechanism of rapid drought stress on the physiological and biochemical properties of crop leaves and determine drought thresholds, the potted spring wheat under two water treatments, adequate water supply and...
Background: Magnesium (Mg) is an essential element and participates in many metabolic pathways. Many studies have found a certain negative correlation between magnesium and blood glucose parameters, but the dose–response relationship between th...
Phytoplankton serves as the primary producer in estuarine ecosystems, with its community structure and dynamics being directly influenced by the concentration and ratio of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) nutrients. This study utilized raw water from...
The insulin signaling pathway has been hypothesized to play a key role in regulation of worker social insect behavior. We tested whether insulin treatment has direct effects on worker honeybee behavior in two contexts, sucrose response thresholds in...
In order to study the dynamic response characteristics of a pile-soil foundation when an adjacent tunnel exists, both model tests and numerical simulations were performed in this study. Taking the peak vibration acceleration, peak vibration velocity,...
The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score grades dysfunction in six components in people, using thresholds fixed against human reference ranges and a human case mix. Whether those numbers transfer to cats has not been examined. Of 52 cats...
Measles is a highly contagious, but vaccine-preventable disease caused by the measles virus (MeV). Although the administration of two doses of measles vaccines is the most effective strategy to prevent and eliminate measles, MeV continues to spread w...
This paper uses a panel threshold model to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR, hereafter) and enterprises’ economic influence on regional gross domestic product (GDP, hereafter) and employment. We find that th...
Monitoring the vibration response of Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavement under dynamic vehicle loading is critical for road maintenance and traffic analysis. This study embedded micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometer sensors in PCC...
A new three-axis inertial switch is proposed. The triangle-structured movable electrode is designed to improve the inertial switch’s dynamic response performance, especially the movable electrode’s dynamic stability performance. The stati...
This study evaluates the dynamics of the human pupillary reflex in response to a stepped blue light stimulus (465 nm) in young adults residing at high altitude (3400 m above sea level). High-resolution video sequences of three participants were analy...
Large-scale fishing bans are increasingly implemented to restore aquatic ecosystems, yet their effects on lower trophic levels remain poorly understood. As one of the world’s largest estuarine systems, the Yangtze River Estuary has been subject...
The purpose of this study was to verify the physiological responses and biomechanical parameters measured during 30 min of continuous swimming (T30) at intensity corresponding to lactate threshold previously calculated by an intermittent progressivel...
Ionizing radiation has been an important tool in medical diagnosis and treatment. While the use of radiation for diagnostic purposes has been successful, clinicians are wary of the possible negative effects radiation may have on the patient. Accordin...
Determining thresholds from auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) in clinical practice requires manual interpretation, particularly the assessment of wave V presence across successive stimulus intensity levels. This work presents a comprehensive compar...
Image sticking in thin film transistor-liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD) is related to the dielectric property of liquid crystal (LC) material. Low threshold value TFT LC materials have a weak stability and the free ions in them will be increased bec...
In this paper, we present a mathematical analysis of within-host CHIKV dynamics by developing and studying a novel delay differential equation model that incorporates persistent infected monocytes, discrete time delays, and an antibody-mediated humor...
Squeeze-film damping and acceleration load are two major issues in the design of inertial micro-switches. In order to deeply and systematically study these two issues, this paper proposes a typical vertically-driven inertial micro-switch, wherein the...
Background: Cotton straw returning (CSR) is widely implemented in Xinjiang to achieve in situ residue utilization and ameliorate saline–alkali soils. However, its long-term efficacy in improving soil fertility without inducing secondary saliniz...
Climate change has significantly affected marine fisheries. In recent years, marine heatwaves (MHWs) have intensified concurrently with increasing sea surface temperature (SST), particularly along the coast of Japan in the Northwest Pacific. Although...
The Loess Plateau has experienced persistent vegetation greening over the past two decades, yet this recovery has occurred under a concurrent intensification of atmospheric evaporative demand and drying. This raises a key land–atmosphere questi...
People with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are a heterogeneous group. While many succeed in the treatment of their OSA, many others struggle with therapy. Herein, we discuss how anatomical and physiological factors that cause sleep apnea (OSA traits)...
Background/Objectives: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains the most effective biological treatment for treatment-resistant depression. Although its efficacy has been consistently demonstrated, the influence of seizure characteristics and treatmen...
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