Article history: Received 20 February 2012 Revised 18 May 2012 Available online 30 May 2012

EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 18 February 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.632186

Norman Rockwell, North America’s most beloved and certainly best known illustrator, favored scenes of everyday life and reveled in his ability to tell stories. His Dickensian view of life drove him to paint the world as he would like it to be—no drunken fathers or self-centered mothers, only kindly doctors, duty-bound soldiers, and regular folks at their daily occupations. In his pictures, the ...

Governmental organizations when formally seeking information on available technologies typically issue documents entitled variously: Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Information (RFI), Request for Qualifications (RFQ), Request for Expression of Interest (RFEOI), and so forth. The RFP is intended to result in a contract. It may be preceded by one or more preliminary ‘Requests for Informat...

Shiraz (Iran): Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME) organized its EMMJ6 Medical Journals Conference here from February 18-20, 2015 which attracted distinguished medical editors from the region. It was organized in collaboration with Iranian Society of Medical Editors, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Islamic World Science Citation Center, WHO EMRO, Pakistan Associa...

In this tutorial we show the practical applicability of the algorithm described in the paper by Diaconis & Sturmfels (1998) who apply the algebraic theory of toric ideals to define a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for sampling from conditional distributions, through the notion of Markov basis. For some basic concepts from Computational Commutative Algebra, such as polynomial ideal, term-orderi...

Dr. Teruhisa Kazui passed away on 8 February 2015 in Sapporo, Japan, at the age of 73. He was born in mainland China on 18 May 1941. After World War II, he and his family moved to Sapporo, where he spent his school days until he graduated from the Sapporo Medical University (M.D.) in 1967. He passed the ECFMG exam while he was a medical student and spent a 1-year internship at the United States...

OPINION article Front. Psychol., 18 February 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.604803

The sites that arouse skepticism in the parsimony method are the ones with the greatest number of changes. Compatibility is a technique related to parsimony, and is well suited to trees for which parsimony would produce frequent changes between states. Unfortunately, however, compatibility also treats small noise artifacts as significant. Definition 18.1: A site is compatible with a tree if and...

50 9 PREDICTORS OF OBTAINING AN ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPH FOR PEDIATRIC CONSTIPATION. C MacGeorge, D Williams, N Vajta, K Morella, P Thacker, W Russell, W Basco and D Bundy, Charleston, SC. Medical University of South Carolina (APA) Abstract 51 10 EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT UTILIZATION TRENDS BY MEDICAID RECIPIENTS IN WEST ALABAMA. C Massouleh and K Burgess, Tuscaloosa, AL. University of Alabama, College ...