There are many kinds of networks, each with many types of variables and monitoring goals. Our paper addressed only one of the countless possible combinations of network and monitoring goals. We are grateful to the discussants for expanding our paper by providing insights into other network monitoring problems that present different challenges to statisticians. Denby, Landwehr and Meloche (DLM) ...

Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits are multistage loops critical to motor behavior, but the contributions of individual components to overall circuit function remain unclear. We addressed these issues in a songbird basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit (the anterior forebrain pathway, AFP) specialized for singing and critical for vocal plasticity. The major known afferent to the AFP is the ...

Many current local search algorithms for SAT fall into one of two classes. Random walk algorithms such as Walksat/SKC, Novelty+ and HWSAT are very successful but can be trapped for long periods in deep local minima. Clause weighting algorithms such as DLM, GLS, ESG and SAPS are good at escaping local minima but require expensive smoothing phases in which all weights are updated. We show that Wa...

The ultimate goals of conducting disaster research are to obtain information to: (1) decrease risks that a hazard will produce a disaster; (2) decrease the mortality associated with disasters; (3) decrease the morbidity associated with disasters; and (4) enhance recovery of the affected community. And decrease the risks that a hazard will produce a disaster. Two principal, but inter-related, br...