Reporting effect sizes in scientific articles is increasingly widespread and encouraged by journals; however, choosing an effect size for analyses such as mixed-effects regression modeling and hierarchical linear modeling can be difficult. One relatively uncommon, but very informative, standardized measure of effect size is Cohen's f(2), which allows an evaluation of local effect size, i.e., on...

This paper describes a similarity retrieval technique for 3D models with solid textures. Three dimensionally extended fractal based descriptors have been extracted from each 3D model in a database. Various sizes of fractal filters were used for extracting descriptors of the 3D models, and the descriptors were compared as indices of the 3D models. Since the filter size used in the system affects...

We develop an efficient, Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification framework using a novel treed Gaussian process model. The tree is adaptively constructed using information conveyed by the observed data about the length scales of the underlying process. On each leaf of the tree, we utilize Bayesian Experimental Design techniques in order to learn a multi-output Gaussian process. The constructed surr...

One of the reasons for the lack of rigor in software engineering compared to physical and behavioral sciences is that the theories that underpin our work, both as software engineers and as software engineering researchers, have not been given enough attention. To provide a step forward towards greater rigor, a framework has been created with which to explore theories of software engineering and...

In this chapter we present a version of the Trading System case study modeled according to the KobrA approach. KobrA is a UML-based method for describing components and component-based systems developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering at the beginning of the decade. The acronym stands for the term “Komponenten basierte Anwendungsentwicklung” – German for “Compo...

Estimation of growth curves of poultry species is of particular importance in animal science. This study aims at fitting hierarchical Gompertz growth curve to Japanese quails body weight data obtained from hatching to 56 days of age weekly. The model involved a random animal effect as well as sex and line effects in asymptotic weight parameters. Model parameters were estimated via Bayesian meth...

today hydrogels are considered as the materials that are able to play important role in drug delivery systems. to design an effective hydrogel applicable network, mathematical modeling has a critical role. a successful drug delivery device relies not only on intelligent network design but also on accurate prior mathematical modeling of drug release profiles. in this study, the modeling of the i...