This article develops a method to estimate the impact of change in a particular social setting, the residential neighborhood, that is designed to address nonrandom selection into a neighborhood and nonrandom selection out of a neighborhood. Utilizing matching to confront selection into neighborhood environments and instrumental variables to confront selection out of changing neighborhoods, the ...

Due to high prevalence rates and deleterious effects on individuals, families, and communities, intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health problem. Because IPV occurs in the context of communities and neighborhoods, research must examine the broader environment in addition to individual-level factors to successfully facilitate behavior change. Drawing from the Social Determi...

Distillers grains (DG) are an excellent ruminant feedstuff. They are an excellent source both of energy and protein. In the production of alcohol, the starch, which is about two-thirds the composition of corn grain, is fermented to alcohol and CO2. The remaining nutrients are then concentrated by a factor of three. Corn protein of 10% is concentrated to 30% and fat (oil) from 4 to 12%. Fiber is...

In previous studies we first concentrated on utilizing crisp simulationto produce discrete event fuzzy systems simulations. Then we extendedthis research to the simulation of continuous fuzzy systems models. In this paperwe continue our study of continuous fuzzy systems using crisp continuoussimulation. Consider a crisp continuous system whose evolution depends ondifferential equations. Such a ...

Underdetermined blind source separation is a signal processing technique that more suitable for practical applications and aims to separate the signals from mixed signals. The mixing matrix estimation major step in underdetermined separation. Since current methods estimating have disadvantages of insufficient accuracy or weak noise immunity, two-stage single-source point screening combines cosi...

In the direct current (DC) exploration method, topographic relief distorts apparent resistivity curve. To eliminate effects of terrain fluctuations, two undulating terrains comprising valleys and ridges were investigated in present study. An unstructured triangular mesh method which wave number k its coefficient g obtained using integral point line source surveys conducted comsol multiphysics. ...

Point-spread function (PSF) estimation in spatially undersampled images is challenging because large pixels average fine-scale spatial information. This problematic when fine-resolution details are necessary, as optimal photometry where knowledge of the illumination pattern beyond native resolution image may be required. Here, we introduce a method PSF reconstruction point sources artificially ...