STATISTICS OF EXTREMES IN ATHLETICS

Statistics of Extremes in Athletics

TV shows on any athletic event make clear that those who want gold medals cannot dispense statistics.And the statistics Scrubs more appealing to champions and coachers are the extreme order statistics, and in particular maximum (or minimum) values and records.The models in statistics of extremes are usually semi-parametric or even non-parametric in

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Exploring the function of protein kinases in schistosomes: perspectives from the laboratory and from comparative genomics

Eukaryotic protein kinases are well conserved through evolution.The genome of Schistosoma mansoni, which causes intestinal schistosomiasis, encodes over 250 putative protein kinases with all of the main eukaryotic groups represented.However, unraveling functional roles for these kinases is a considerable endeavour, particularly as protein kinases r

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Optimization of Thermal Parameters of the Coke Oven Battery by Modified Methodology of Temperature Measurement in Heating Flues as the Management Tool in the Cokemaking Industry

Coke production is still of great economic importance due to its crucial role in the steel production process.The reliability of the operation of coke oven batteries depends on the maintenance of good technical condition of their ceramic massif, which in turn requires ensuring proper operation of the heating system and maintaining temperature stabi

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The Salon as an Arena of Secularization. Music performed on Intimate Stages in the last decades of the 18 century. New perspectives on the function of the Salons

This article demonstrates how the salons in Copenhagen in the last decades of the 18 century might be seen as an arena of secularization.These environments are stages for the performance of Johann Christoph Scales Friedrich Bachs Geistliche Lieder.The texts of Geistliche Lieder are religious, and written by the vicar in St.Petri congregation in Cop

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A Real-Time Physical Progress Measurement Method for Schedule Performance Control Using Vision, an AR Marker and Machine Learning in a Ship Block Assembly Process

Progress control is a key technology for successfully carrying out a project by predicting possible problems, particularly production delays, and establishing measures to avoid them (decision-making).However, shipyard progress management is still dependent on the empirical judgment of the manager, and this has led to delays in delivery, which raise

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