MOTIVATION With complex traits and diseases having potential genetic contributions of thousands of genetic factors, and with current genotyping arrays consisting of millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), powerful high-dimensional statistical techniques are needed to comprehensively model the genetic variance. Machine learning techniques have many advantages including lack of parame...

Long-term fisheries independent gill net surveys conducted in Texas estuaries from 1975 to 2006 were used to develop spatially explicit estuarine habitat use models for 3 coastal shark species: bull shark Carcharhinus leucas, blacktip shark C. limbatus, and bonnethead shark Sphyrna tiburo. Relationships between environmental predictors and shark distribution were investigated using boosted regr...

This study aimed to model the habitat suitability for an invasive clam Corbicula fluminea in a coastal shallow lagoon in the southern Neotropical region (-30.22, -50.55). The lagoon (19km2, maximum deep 2.5m) was sampled with an Ekman dredge in an orthogonal matrix comprising 84 points. At each sampling point, were obtained environmental descriptors as depth, organic matter content (OMC), avera...

Additive tree methods are widely used in ecology. To date most ecologists have boosted regression (BRT) methods. However, Bayesian additive (BART) models may offer advantages to previously unexamined. Here we test whether BART has some benefits over the BRT method. do this use two grassland data and 13 hydroclimatic land predictor variables. The dataset contained from a period of drought as wel...

Bus rapid transit (BRT) system is a sustainable mode choice alternative and traffic management method for congestion problems in urban areas. As an extent of total demand management, BRT has broadly been implemented many countries. proven to be progressive alleviating the difficulty finding parking spaces city centers. Currently, people driving their automobiles work cause along Karachi’s main ...

本稿では、都市郊外部における地下鉄延伸計画のバス高速輸送システム（BRT）での代替可能性について、京都市営地下鉄東西線洛西方面延伸計画におけるBRT代替事業の事業性調査を通じて検証した。本調査では、BRT代替事業の事業性について、費用分析における年度間費用分析および需要予測の結果より導出する年度間収支分析より検証した。その結果、年度間収支分析の結果が黒字であることから、本調査で検討した京都市営地下鉄東西線洛西方面延伸計画をBRTで代替する事業は、事業性がある可能性が高いことが明らかになった。本研究の調査内容から、都市郊外部における地下鉄延伸計画のバス高速輸送システムでの代替可能性は、「小型自動車利用からBRT利用へ転換する人数の割合」により影響されることを示唆するものであったと考察する。