The Diminishing Returns of Mechanical Loading and Potential Mechanisms that Desensitize Osteocytes
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DOI: 10.1007/s11914-021-00693-9
Abstract: Adaptation to mechanical loading is critical to maintaining bone mass and offers therapeutic potential to preventing age-related bone loss and osteoporosis. However, increasing the duration of loading is met with “diminishing returns” as the anabolic… read more here.
Keywords: mechanisms desensitize; response; mechanical loading; potential mechanisms ... See more keywords
Does the law of diminishing returns in leaf scaling apply to vines? – Evidence from 12 species of climbing plants
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00830
Abstract: Abstract Shapes, sizes and biomass investment per unit area (LMA) of vine leaves are characterized by high diversity that results in variation in leaf arrangement, light harvesting efficiency and photosynthetic activity. There exists a scaling… read more here.
Keywords: dry mass; law diminishing; surface area; area ... See more keywords
Maximum likelihood estimation of difference scaling functions for suprathreshold judgments
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DOI: 10.1167/jov.22.10.9
Abstract: Abstract Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) has been used to produce perceptual scales from binary judgments of triads and quadruples. This method relies on Thurstone's theory of a stochastic perceptual process where the perceived difference of… read more here.
Keywords: thurstone theory; diminishing returns; likelihood estimation; maximum likelihood ... See more keywords