“Chick Noir”: Shopaholic Meets Double Indemnity

Animal disease incidence and indemnity eradication programs

There are many options for controlling the spread of animal diseases. Some diseases have been treated as public sector problems and many nations have tried to control disease spread by purchasing sick animals from farmers. Government agencies have purchased breeding stock that might transmit diseases. Government agencies have purchased animals that might otherwise have gone to the slaughterhous...

Partial respecification of nasotemporal polarity in double-temporal chick and chimeric chick–quail eyes

In chick embryos, naso-temporal polarity of the retina becomes established before Hamburger-Hamilton stage 10. To examine the plasticity of the early eye anlage, double-temporal eyes were made using stage 10-11 (E1.5) chick embryos and stage 8-9 quail embryos. In vivo and in vitro experiments revealed that these double-temporal compound eyes were not completely temporal but nasal in a large per...

Double-robust estimators: slightly more Bayesian than meets the eye?

Consider the simple setting of point exposure, outcome and confounding variables, all of which are discrete. As is well known, parametric modeling of outcome given exposure and confounders and also exposure given confounders can yield a double-robust estimator. This has the property of being consistent as long as at least one of the two specified models is correct. Such an estimator can also be...

Recherche Optimale de Trou Noir avec Cailloux

Un trou noir est un nœud d’un réseau qui détruit tout agent (ou robot) y entrant sans laisser de trace détectable. L’emplacement du trou noir doit être déterminé par une une équipe d’agents mobiles identiques déployée à partir d’un emplacement sain. Pratiquement tous les résultats existants pour des agents asynchrones supposent la présence à chaque nœud d’une mémoire partagée (tableau blanc), d...

Withering on the vine: the decline of indemnity health insurance.