MS Research Roundup: July 9, 2014

International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, CITS 2014, Jeju, South Korea, July 7-9, 2014

Clinical Inquiries Regarding Ebola Virus Disease Received by CDC — United States, July 9–November 15, 2014

Since early 2014, there have been more than 6,000 reported deaths from Ebola virus disease (Ebola), mostly in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. On July 9, 2014, CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center for the Ebola outbreak response and formalized the consultation service it had been providing to assist state and local public health officials and health care providers evaluate persons in...

Package ‘ label . switching ’ July 2 , 2014

July 2, 2014 Type Package Title Relabelling MCMC outputs of mixture models Version 1.2 Date 2013-12-04 Author Panagiotis Papastamoulis Maintainer Panagiotis Papastamoulis Description The Bayesian estimation of mixture models (and more general hidden Markov models) suffers from the label switching phenomenon, making the MCMC output non-identifiable. This package can be used i...

SPLASH! milk science update: July 2014 Issue

Among many mammals, lactating females may have extended periods of time in between nursing bouts. This is often the case for females who “cache” or “park” their young in nests, dens, or burrows while they depart to forage more efficiently unencumbered by the presence of the young (parents, you know what I am talking about). The egg-laying echidna is an excellent, if totally weird, example. Afte...

The Wheels of Justice 02 July 2014

On the face of it, the 5 June ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, affirming the earlier dismissal of the youths’ case, is a setback. However, the Court’s ruling positions the case to proceed to the Supreme Court on the question of whether the federal government has a public trust obligation to its citizens. The Court of Appeals focused on a recent U.S. Supr...