We administer the Allais paradox questions to both a representative sample of the Dutch population and to student subjects. Three treatments are implemented: one with the original high hypothetical payoffs, one with low hypothetical payoffs and a third with low real payoffs. Our key findings are: (i) violations in the non-lab sample are systematic and a large bulk of violations is likely to ste...

The linearity of dose–mortality responses was accepted (Chi square analysis P > 0.05) for S-Lab and Jendouba population (slope regression is 3.42 for S-Lab with Heterogeneity factor equal to 1 and 2.15 for Jendouba population with Heterogeneity factor equal to 5.01). RR at LC50 (RR50) showed that the sample was resistant to chlorpyrifos. The RR50 reached very high level with chlorpyrifos (RR50 ...

Faecal samples of 2 pigs, kept on a constant diet, were analysed for Lactobacillus acidophilus and other lactic acid bacteria at 1 week intervals over a period of 3 months. Enumeration of L. acidophilus by selective methods was verified by phenotypic identification of representative isolates. The total lactic acid bacteria (LAB) population ranged between 10(8) and 10(10) colony-forming units pe...

BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious, common, and underdiagnosed disorder that challenges health care resources. While polysomnography (PSG) represents the standard diagnostic test for OSA, portable devices provide an alternative diagnostic tool when issues of cost, time, geographic availability, or other constraints pose impediments to in-lab testing. This study compares the N...

Winter wheat is a suitable crop to be ensiled for animal feed and China has the largest planting area of this crop in the world. During the ensiling process, lactic acid bacteria (LAB) play the most important role in the fermentation. We investigated the natural population of LAB in whole-crop wheat (WCW) and examined the quality of whole-crop wheat silage (WCWS) with and without LAB inoculants...

Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious, common, and underdiagnosed disorder that challenges health care resources. While polysomnography (PSG) represents the standard diagnostic test for OSA, portable devices provide an alternative diagnostic tool when issues of cost, time, geographic availability, or other constraints pose impediments to in-lab testing. This study compares the ...

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire undergraduate university student population, representative sample of the US and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about external validity experiments with participants. Behavior in population offers bounds on other populations, correlations between are similar across samples. Furthermore,...

The paper summarizes the participation of the 6 FabSpaces to the population estimation (remote) pilot task at ImageCLEF 2017 Lab. FabSpace 2.0 is an open-innovation network for geodata-driven innovation that aims at improving universities contribution to the socioeconomic and environmental performance of societies. In the framework of the ImageCLEF Lab, the 6 FabSpaces participated although onl...