A recently released National Research Council (NRC) report, Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools, evaluated and recommended changes in the Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and other advanced secondary school science programs. As part of this study, discipline-specific panels were formed to evaluate advance...

1 Milan Unit, Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy. 2 Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano (Mi) – Italy. 3 Department of Pediatrics Cancer Biology; 4 Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305. 5 Computational Research Unit, Center for Genomics Science@SEMM, Istituto I...

we will consider the case, with respect to the measure μ and the value of q, where un converges to a function u that does not satisfy (1.1). Dipartimento di Costruzioni e Metodi Matematici in Architettura, Università di Napoli, via Monteoliveto 3, 80134 Napoli, Italia, and Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone” Sezione di Napoli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Pietro C...

We describe the systems entered by the National Research Council in the 2016 shared task on discriminating similar languages. Like previous years, we relied on character ngram features, and a combination of discriminative and generative statistical classifiers. We mostly investigated the influence of the amount of data on the performance, in the open task, and compared the twostage approach (pr...

EARLINET Single Calculus Chain – technical – Part 1: Pre-processing of raw lidar data G. D’Amico, A. Amodeo, I. Mattis, V. Freudenthaler, and G. Pappalardo Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), Tito Scalo, Potenza, Italy Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Meteorologisches Instit...

Certain criteria are demonstrated for a spatial derivation of a von Neumann algebra to generate a one-parameter semigroup of endomorphisms of that algebra. These are then used to establish a converse to recent results of Borchers and of Wiesbrock on certain one-parameter semigroups of endomorphisms of von Neumann algebras (specifically, Type III1 factors) that appear as lightlike translations i...

Simone Pigolotti, Massimo Cencini, Daniel Molina, Miguel A. Muñoz 1 Biological Complexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495. 2 Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Rome, Italy. 3 BCAM Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Alameda de Mazarredo 14, E-48009 Bilbao, Basque Count...

In 2009, the National Research Council (NRC) released the latest in a series of advisory reports on human health risk assessment, titled Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment. This wide-ranging report made a number of recommendations related to risk assessment practice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that could both influence and be influenced by evolving toxicological pr...

BACKGROUND The National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) recommended that low-dose risks be estimated in some situations using human variability distributions (HVDs). HVD modeling estimates log-normal distributions from data on pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic variables that affect individual sensiti...