a study was conducted to determine suitable soil properties as soil quality indicators, using factor analysis in order to evaluate the effects of land use change on loessial hillslope soils of the shastkola district in golestan province, northern iran. to this end, forty surface soil (0-30 cm) samples were collected from four adjacent sites with the following land uses systems: (1) natural fore...

In Bayesian model selection or testing problems, Bayes factors under proper priors have been very successful. In practice, however, limited information and time constraints often require us to use noninformative priors which are typically improper and are deened only up to arbitrary constants. The resulting Bayes factors are then not well deened. A recently proposed model selection criterion, t...

In the parallel map theory, the hippocampus encodes space with 2 mapping systems. The bearing map is constructed primarily in the dentate gyrus from directional cues such as stimulus gradients. The sketch map is constructed within the hippocampus proper from positional cues. The integrated map emerges when data from the bearing and sketch maps are combined. Because the component maps work in pa...