M. dilatata, M. flabellata, and M. patula and 80 other scleractinian corals were petitioned to be listed under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA), which would have major conservation implications. One of the difficulties with this evaluation is that reproductive boundaries between morphologically defined coral species are often permeable, and morphology can be wildly variable. We examined gene...

We consider the problem of estimating a function f0 in logistic regression model. We propose to estimate this function f0 by a sparse approximation build as a linear combination of elements of a given dictionary of p functions. This sparse approximation is selected by the Lasso or Group Lasso procedure. In this context, we state non asymptotic oracle inequalities for Lasso and Group Lasso under...

We would like to wholeheartedly congratulate Professors Städler, Bühlmann and van de Geer for an interesting and important paper on developing the L1 regularization theory and methodology in finite mixture regression (FMR) models. An innovated reparametrization scheme is introduced to ensure equivariance under affine transformations and enhance the performance. Some nonasymptotic oracle inequal...

Ancient historical references consistently describe an intoxicating gas, produced by a cavern in the ground, as the source of the power at the oracle of Delphi. These ancient writings are supported by a series of associated geological findings. Chemical analysis of the spring waters and travertine deposits at the site show these gases to be the light hydrocarbon gases methane, ethane, and ethyl...

Background Plants are able to incite a type of broad spectrum resistance against pathogens upon pre-treatment with biological or chemical inducers. Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR) and Induced Systemic Resistance (ISR) are two types of induced resistance which lead to the accumulation of specific pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins. Non-pathogenic rhizobacteria are inducing agents for ISR and ...

Tagetes patula L. (marigold) is a valuable source of biologically active compounds, including flavonoids. A quantitative determination method for total flavonoids in T. flowers using differential spectrophotometry at analytical wavelength 428 nm and reference standard patulitrin (3,5,7,3?,4?-pentahydroxy-6-methoxyflavone 7-O-?-D-glucopyranoside) was developed during the present work. The error ...