This paper proposes a bayesian methodology to treat the who’s who problem arising in individual level data sets such as patent data. We assess the usefullness of this methodology on the set of all French inventors appearing on EPO applications from 1978 to 2003.

Habitat fragmentation, degradation, and loss have taxed early-successional species including the Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) and numerous grassland obligate birds. Translocation is often applied to counteract the consequences of habitat fragmentation through the creation, reestablishment, or augmentation of wild populations for the purposes of conservation, biodiversity maintenance....

The authors respond to the article by H. F. Coelho, P. H. Canter, and E. Ernst (2007), which reviewed the current status of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). First, they clarify the randomization procedures in the 2 main MBCT trials. Second, they report posttreatment and follow-up data to show that trial participants allocated to "treatment as usual" did not become worse. Third, they ...

5 Between groups design In a between groups design, the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable is based upon the examination of group differences. In a true experimental design, one group receives a treatment or intervention (known as the treatment group), and the comparison group typically experiences no treatment (the control group). 6 Between groups design However, s...

I present a formalism that combines two methodologies: objective Bayesianism and Bayesian nets. According to objective Bayesianism, an agent’s degrees of belief (i) ought to satisfy the axioms of probability, (ii) ought to satisfy constraints imposed by background knowledge, and (iii) should otherwise be as non-committal as possible (i.e. have maximum entropy). Bayesian nets offer an efficient ...

the goal of this research is preparation, optimization and in-vitro evaluation of rifampin-loaded silica nanaoparticles in order to use in pulmonary drug delivery. nanoparticles are exhaled because of thier small size, preparation of nanoaggregates in micron-sized scale and re-disrpersion of them after the deposition in the lung is one approach in order to overcome this problem, which we used i...

ch4, c2h6 and c2h4 are the most important outlet gaseous of oxidative couple methane (ocm) reaction and this process is a new technology for conversion of natural gas to ethane and ethylene products. in this study, adsorption of ocm outlet hydrocarbons over 10x zeolite has been examined at equilibrium conditions. temperature and pressure are the most effective operational parameters in the batc...

A strategy has been developed for the assessment of both thermal decomposition hazards and thermal runaway potential in intended exothermic reactions. The strategy is based on the application of simple, cost-effective experimental techniques. The results from these techniques have been compared with those from commercially available instruments, and indicate a similar level of sensitivity. Resu...

A Latin square is an arrangement of v copies of v symbols into a v× v square so that (i) each symbol occurs once in each row, and (ii) each symbol occurs once in each column. Three distinct Latin squares of order v = 4 are shown in Example 1. Other than for small v, the number of distinct (non-identical as matrices) Latin squares is not generally known, though it is known that it grows rapidly ...