by Steven B. Kim, Steven A. Fennimore, Dong Sub Kim
Soil disinfestation with steam was evaluated as an alternative to fumigation. Following soil disinfestation, plant health has traditionally been measured using plant size and yield. Plant health can be measured in a timely manner more efficiently, more easily and non-destructively using image analysis. We hypothesized that plant health could be quantified and treatments can be differentiated using an RGB (Red, Green, Blue) image analysis program... Читать дальше...
by Nicholas Graves, Yiying Cai, Brett Mitchell, Dale Fisher, Martin Kiernan
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by Almiqdad Elzein, Gianni A. Di Caro
The Orienteering Problem is a routing problem that commonly appears in mapping, transportation, distribution, and scheduling scenarios. The Orienteering Problem is a challenging NP-hard problem, such that obtaining optimal or near optimal solutions usually requires a significant amount of computation for large and even moderately large instances. As a result, existing algorithms cannot effectively be utilized for solving large Orienteering Problems in an online setting... Читать дальше...
by Jun Chen, Baolei Liu, Ming Zhong, Chuan Jing, Baoyou Guo
In nature, biomineralization is a common phenomenon, which can be further divided into authigenic and artificially induced mineralization. In recent years, artificially induced mineralization technology has been gradually extended to major engineering fields. Therefore, by elaborating the reaction mechanism and bacteria of mineralization process, and summarized various molecular dynamics equations involved in the mineralization process... Читать дальше...
by Malte T. Ahlers, Christoph T. Block, Michael Winklhofer, Martin Greschner
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by Lan Chen, Liyan Gu, Xianchen Li, Wenyao Chen, Lingjuan Zhang
BackgroundIn recent years, oral care for older people has received extensive attention in long-term care facilities. The Self-Efficacy for Providing Mouth Care (SE-PMC) and Attitudes for Providing Mouth Care (A-PMC) scale evaluated the self-efficacy and attitude of nursing staff while providing oral care. However, whether this scale is valid and reliable for Chinese nursing staff in China remains unverified. This study aims... Читать дальше...
by Hagere Yilma, Rajiv N. Rimal, Manoj Parida
Research testing the risk perception attitudes (RPA) framework has demonstrated that efficacy can moderate the effect of risk perceptions on behavior. This effect of efficacy has also been seen at the social-level through tests of the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB). We tested if efficacy could bridge normative factors at a social-level and risk perception at an individual-level. Data for this study come from the Reduction in Anemia... Читать дальше...
by Thendo Gertie Makhado, Rachel Tsakani Lebese, Maria Sonto Maputle, Lufuno Makhado
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by Kira Schmiedeknecht, Andreas Kaufmann, Stefan Bauer, Francisco Venegas Solis
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by Elizabeth Córdoba-Lanús, Omar García-Pérez, Francisco Rodríguez-Esparragón, Carlos J. Bethencourt-Estrella, Laura B. Torres-Mata, Angeles Blanco, Jesús Villar, Oscar Sanz, Juan J. Díaz, José L. Martín-Barrasa, Pedro Serrano-Aguilar, José-Enrique Piñero, Bernardino Clavo, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales
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by Melissa M. Karnaze, John Bellettiere, Cinnamon S. Bloss
This investigation examined how dispositional compassion and empathy were associated with prosocial behaviors and attitudes in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Every two weeks from March 22 to June 15, 2020, we fielded a survey to a new cohort of adults in the U.S. Compassion related to whether one stayed home to protect others, more hours spent staying home and distancing from others, and more frequent mask wearing in public, in the past two weeks. Читать дальше...
by David Barrera Ferro, Steffen Bayer, Laura Bocanegra, Sally Brailsford, Adriana Díaz, Elena Valentina Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Honora Smith
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by Mia Ray, John G. White, Michael A. Weston, Anthony R. Rendall, Simon D. Toop, Heath Dunstan, Jordan O. Hampton, Raylene Cooke
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by Hikari Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Nagumo, Yukiko Ishikawa, Yoko Irukayama-Tomobe, Yukiko Namekawa, Tsuyoshi Nemoto, Hiromu Tanaka, Genki Takahashi, Akihisa Tokuda, Tsuyoshi Saitoh, Hiroshi Nagase, Hiromasa Funato, Masashi Yanagisawa
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by Rea P. Anunciado-Koza, J. Patrizia Stohn, Arturo Hernandez, Robert A. Koza
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by Arthur Vengesai, Thajasvarie Naicker, Herald Midzi, Maritha Kasambala, Tariro L. Mduluza-Jokonya, Simbarashe Rusakaniko, Francisca Mutapi, Takafira Mduluza
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by Daisuke Waki, Hiroya Tamai, Ritsuko Yokochi, Toshiki Kido, Yuriko Yagyu, Ryo Yanai, Ken-Ei Sada
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by Caroline Fredrich Dourado Pinto, Bianca Brum de Oliveira, Marcelino Bortolo, Ryan Guldenpfennig, Fábio Ritter Marx, Luciano Trevizan
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by Rikuto Yoshimizu, Junsuke Nakase, Miho Okuda, Kazuki Asai, Mitsuhiro Kimura, Tomoyuki Kanayama, Yusuke Yanatori, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
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by Ayushman Gadnayak, Budheswar Dehury, Ananya Nayak, Sudipta Jena, Ambika Sahoo, Pratap Chandra Panda, Asit Ray, Sanghamitra Nayak
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by Andrea Cerasa
Benford’s Law defines a statistical distribution for the first and higher order digits in many datasets. Under very general condition, numbers are expected to naturally conform to the theorized digits pattern. On the other side, any deviation from the Benford distribution could identify an exogenous modification of the expected pattern, due to data manipulation or even fraud. Many statistical tests are available for assessing the Benford conformity of a sample. However, in some practical applications... Читать дальше...
by Fernanda Rebelo, Isabela Rodrigues Mansur, Teresa Cristina Miglioli, Maria Dalva Baker Meio, Saint Clair Gomes Junior
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by Hezhi Lu, Fengjing Cai, Yuan Li, Xionghui Ou
Interval estimation with accurate coverage for risk difference (RD) in a correlated 2 × 2 table with structural zero is a fundamental and important problem in biostatistics. The score test-based and Bayesian tail-based confidence intervals (CIs) have good coverage performance among the existing methods. However, as approximation approaches, they have coverage probabilities lower than the nominal confidence level for finite and moderate sample sizes. Читать дальше...
by Matthew P. Adams
Compositional data, which is data consisting of fractions or probabilities, is common in many fields including ecology, economics, physical science and political science. If these data would otherwise be normally distributed, their spread can be conveniently represented by a multivariate normal distribution truncated to the non-negative space under a unit simplex. Here this distribution is called the simplex-truncated multivariate normal distribution. For calculations on truncated distributions... Читать дальше...
by Blagica Penova-Veselinovic, Laura A. Wijs, John L. Yovich, Peter Burton, Roger J. Hart
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