The penalized log-likelihood defines a trade-off between the goodness of fit to the data and the uniformity of each function, namely, the facets of the piecewise linear function being as flat as possible.
To ensure uniformity of renal function and minimal variation in scan conditions in our cohort, subjects underwent biochemical screening of blood and urine and physical assessment to confirm normal kidney function prior to imaging.
We found that our measure reaches a global maximum when the data is divided into 35 groups (Additional file 2), indicating that this number is the optimal balance between group size and uniformity of biological function.
However, the marked similarity of the two behaviors across phylogeny speaks to the uniformity of their function which, according to the BHT, is to allow the organism to rapidly optimize its readiness to cope with any new stimulus situation and, at the same time, minimize wastage of body energy.
Relationship between free-chlorine-dosing uniformity and chlorination stations number, clarified by Fig. 8, permitted to underline that the use of two chlorination stations generates the great reduction of the uniformity objective function "E(N c, T)" (86.0%) when compared to the conventional chlorination.
At the start of detector operation, a fast intercalibration method, based on phi symmetry in minimum bias events, will be used, exploiting the uniformity of energy deposition as a function of φ at a given η.
Uniformity of the diagnostic procedure.
Collectively, these findings likely represent regional myocardial disarray and replacement fibrosis, characteristic of HCM that lead to non-uniformity of morphology, contractile function and altered intramural deformational mechanics.
The maximum angle difference between normal and blockage conditions at one sensor to those at the other sensors is set to be the objective function and the uniformity of flow distribution in microreactors under normal condition is also required.
In fact, this objective function seeks the uniformity of machine workload in different cells.
