The prior distribution is a key ingredient in Bayesian inference. Prior information on regression coefficients may come from different sources and may or may not be in conflict with the observed data. Various methods have been proposed to quantify a potential prior-data conflict, such as Box's p-value. However, there are no clear recommendations how to react to possible prior-data conflict in g...

In a letter to the editor, Sundby (2015) expresses concerns about our study of changing spawning locations of the Northeast Arctic (NEA) stock of Atlantic cod over the period 1866–1969, where we identified statistically significant effects of the stock’s demography whereas various climate indices all fell below statistical significance. Our conclusion on the role ascribed to climate disagrees w...

Expression levels of mRNAs are among other factors regulated by microRNAs. A particular microRNA can bind specifically to several target mRNAs and lead to their degradation. Expression levels of both, mRNAs and microRNAs, can be obtained by microarray experiments. In order to increase the power of detecting microRNAs that are differentially expressed between two different groups of samples, we ...

The observation of a narrow structure near the J/ψ φ threshold in exclusive B → J/ψ φK decays produced in pp̄ collisions at √ s = 1.96TeV is reported. A signal of 19 ± 6(stat) ± 3(syst) events, with statistical significance of 5.0 standard deviations, is seen in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.0 fb, collected by the CDF II detector. The mass and natural width of the ...

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of tow duration on catch per unit of swept area (CPUE), trawl catch performance, and the proportion of the species caught in a trawl survey. Longer tows are expected to have a greater probability of catching species. An average of 26 species were caught in the first 30 minutes, whereas only about one additional species was caught in the next 30 min...

Masahito Hayashi ∗ EARTO-SORST Quantum Computation and Information Project, JST 5-28-3, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan Superrobust Computation Project, Information Science and Technology Strategic Core (21st Century COE by MEXT) Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan Abstract Many papers proved the...

The connectivity of the hydrophobic medium in the nonionic binary system C12EO6/H2O is studied by monitoring the diffusion constants of tracer molecules at the transition between the hexagonal mesophase and the fluid isotropic phase. The increase in the transverse diffusion coefficient on approaching the isotropic phase reveals the proliferation of bridge-like defects connecting the surfactant ...

A general formula for the correlation function in redshift space is derived in linear theory. The formula simultaneously includes wide-angle effects and cosmological distortions and thus is applicable to any pair with arbitrary angle θ between lines of sight, and arbitrary redshifts, z1, z2, which are not necessarily small. The effects of the spatial curvature both on geometry and on fluctuatio...

Anupam Mazumdar, Ken’ichi Saikawa, Masahide Yamaguchi, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama Consortium for Fundamental Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, United Kingdom IPPP, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1Ookayama,Meguro-ku,Tokyo152-8551, Japan Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, G...

— Influence of Circuits’ Order — Jun Hasegawa Fumitaka Yura Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. ERATO Quantum Computation and Information Project, JST. Hongo White Building, 5-28-3 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. Abstract. Quantum counting algorithm can estimate the nu...