Immigration is commonly considered to be selective of more able individuals. Studies comparing the educational attainment of Mexican immigrants in the United States to that of the Mexican resident population support this characterization. Upward educational-attainment biases in both coverage and measurement, however, may be substantial in U.S. DATA SOURCES Moreover, differences in educationa...

Development of effective quantitative indicators and methodologies to assess the outcomes of cross-disciplinary collaborative initiatives has the potential to improve scientific program management and scientific output. This article highlights an example of a prospective evaluation that has been developed to monitor and improve progress of the National Cancer Institute Physical Sciences-Oncolog...

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INTRODUCTION High quality research regarding treatment effectiveness, quality, and value is critical for improving the U.S. health care system. Recognition of this has led federal and state officials to better leverage existing data sources such as medical claims and survey data, but access must be balanced with privacy concerns. METHODS We reviewed and catalogued data access policies for a s...

Efforts to test and improve terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs) using a variety of data sources have become increasingly common. Yet, geographically extensive forest inventories have been under-exploited in previous model-data fusion efforts. Inventory observations of forest growth, mortality, and biomass integrate processes across a range of timescales, including slow timescale processes such ...

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Learning large network (with hundreds of variables) is gaining interest of many researchers with the emergence of high-throughput biological data sources such as micro-array data. In this paper, we investigated the two popular large scale network structure learning algorithms, sparse candidate hill climbing (SCHC) and Grow-Shrinkage(GS) algorithm. The experiments show that in fact both of them ...

According to current accounts, the perceived location of a target flash presented in the dark around the time of a saccade comes largely from an extraretinal signal that begins to change before, and continues to change during and following the saccade. Opposed to this view, this study offers a model suggesting that the perception of a single flash or two successive flashes in association with a...