Five and a half decades ago, when Stith Thompson was the doyen of American folklore studies, he published his essay “The Challenge Folklore” in PMLA, leading journal Humanities (Thompson 1964) [...]

Iron bioavailabilities and antioxidant activities of 3 generic raisin types—Golden Thompson, Dipped Thompson, and Sun-dried Thompson—were quantified and compared. Iron bioavailability was assessed with an in vitro digestion/Caco-2 cell culture model using cell ferritin formation as an index of iron bioavailability. Antioxidant activity was determined using the total oxyradical-scavenging capaci...

Yawning is a scientific conundrum that has baffled scientists for decades. Whilst the origin and mechanism of yawning may be understood, its presence and frequency in a number of neurological disorders is not clearly understood. The Thompson Cortisol Hypothesis (2011) proposes a link between yawning and blood cortisol levels because of the known association between cortisol (and its elevation i...

inverse sampling design is generally considered to be appropriate technique when the population is divided into two subpopulations, one of which contains only few units. in this paper, we derive the horvitz-thompson estimator for the population mean under inverse sampling designs, where subpopulation sizes are known. we then introduce an alternative unbiased estimator, corresponding to post-str...

Overcompensated Cervical Syndrome (OCS) is a condition first described by J. Clay Thompson, developer of the Thompson Technique, a chiropractic system of adjusting that utilises drop-piece tables.1 Thompson noted that when AbstrAct: Introduction: This paper describes the identification and management of Overcompensated Cervical Syndrome (OCS) in 2 patients presenting to a chiropractic teaching ...

In this paper we apply active learning algorithms for dynamic pricing in a prominent e-commerce website. Dynamic pricing involves changing the price of items on a regular basis, and uses the feedback from the pricing decisions to update prices of the items. Most popular approaches to dynamic pricing use a passive learning approach, where the algorithm uses historical data to learn various param...

0.1. Results. We study the automorphisms of some generalizations of Thompson’s groups and their underlying structures. The automorphism groups of two of Thompson’s original groups were analyzed in [2] and were shown to be “small” and “unexotic.” Our results differ sharply from [2] in that we show that the automorphism groups of the generalizations are “large” and have “exotic” elements. The ter...

This document presents design unbiased direct estimators and simple indirect estimators of domain means Ȳd, d = 1, . . . , D. For a general random sampling without replacement within each domain Ud. We denote by πdj the inclusion probability of j-th unit from d-th domain in the corresponding domain sample sd and wdj = π −1 dj is the corresponding sampling weight. A designunbiased direct estimat...