Spectral Procedure for Steady-state Simulation Analysis” Emily K. Lada Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709-4006, USA, [email protected] James R. Wilson Department of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7906, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7906, USA, [email protected] Natalie M. Steiger Maine Busin...

Catalina Segura,* Peter Caldwell, Ge Sun, Steve McNulty and Yang Zhang 1 Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences Department, North Carolina State University, 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, USA 2 Forestry Engineering, Resources, and Management Department, Oregon State University, 280 Peavy Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA 3 Center for Forest Watershed Science, USDA Forest Service, Co...

Abstract Aim Ecological theory and empirical evidence indicate that greater structural complexity diversity in plant communities increases arthropod abundance diversity. Nonnative plants are typically associated with low due to lack of evolutionary history. However, nonnative increase the forests, as is common urban forests. Therefore, forests ideal ecosystems determine whether will arthropods,...

In histological studies, microwave processing of tissue considerably shortens the time required to prepare samples for observation under light and electron microscopy. However, plant tissues from different species and different regions of the plant respond differently to microwave processing, making it impossible to use a single protocol for all plant tissue. The crown of winter cereals such as...

Irreversible glycation of the hemoglobin A0 (HbA0) beta chain leads to the production of HbA1C, which can be used to monitor long-term blood glucose control in patients with diabetes mellitus. HbA1C is less positively charged than nonglycated HbA0, and this decrease in charge is the basis of ion-exchange and electrophoretic methods that measure HbA1C. We recently identified a sample that appear...

BACKGROUND National Strategic Plans (NSPs) for HIV have become foundational documents that frame responses to HIV. Both Global Fund and PEPFAR require coordination with NSPs as a component of their operations. Despite the role of NSPs in country planning, no rigorous assessment of NSP targets and performance outcomes exists. We performed a quantitative analysis of the quality of NSP indicators ...

Generalized estimating equation solvers in R only allow for a few pre-determined options for the link and variance functions. We provide a package, geeM, which is implemented entirely in R and allows for user specified link and variance functions. The sparse matrix representations provided in the Matrix package enable a fast implementation. To gain speed, we make use of analytic inverses of the...

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to relax the commitment to numeric degrees of belief while retaining the desirable features of the Bayesian approach for representing and changing states of belief. We first present an abstract representation of states of belief and an associated notion of conditionalization that subsume their Bayesian counterparts. Next, we provide some symbolic and ...