Nested clade phylogeographical analysis (NCPA) and approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) have been used to test phylogeographical hypotheses. Multilocus NCPA tests null hypotheses, whereas ABC discriminates among a finite set of alternatives. The interpretive criteria of NCPA are explicit and allow complex models to be built from simple components. The interpretive criteria of ABC are ad hoc a...

Nested clade phylogeographical analysis (NCPA) has become a common tool in intraspecific phylogeography. To evaluate the validity of its inferences, NCPA was applied to actual data sets with 150 strong a priori expectations, the majority of which had not been analysed previously by NCPA. NCPA did well overall, but it sometimes failed to detect an expected event and less commonly resulted in a f...

Nested clade phylogeographic analysis (NCPA) is a popular method for reconstructing the demographic history of spatially distributed populations from genetic data. Although some parts of the analysis are automated, there is no unique and widely followed algorithm for doing this in its entirety, beginning with the data, and ending with the inferences drawn from the data. This article describes a...

Nested clade phylogeographic analysis (NCPA) is a widely used method that aims to identify past demographic events that have shaped the history of a population. In an earlier study, NCPA has been fully automated, allowing it to be tested with simulated data sets generated under a null model in which samples simulated from a panmictic population are geographically distributed. It was noted that ...

Non-common path aberrations (NCPA) in an adaptive optics system are static aberrations that appear due to the difference in optical path between light arriving at the wavefront sensor (WFS) and at the science detector. If the adaptive optics are calibrated to output an unaberrated wavefront, then any optics outside the path of the light arriving at the WFS inherently introduce aberrations to th...

Nested clade phylogeographic analysis (NCPA) has become a popular method for reconstructing the history of populations across species ranges. Ever since its invention in 1995, criticisms have been formulated, but the method, which has been regularly updated, continues to attract investigators. Molecular Ecology has published a large fraction of the literature on the topic--both pro and con. A r...

The National Community Pharmacists Association (“NCPA”) welcomes and appreciates this opportunity to provide input and suggestions regarding the impact that consolidation within the health care industry is having on the cost of private health insurance, Medicare spending and beneficiary costs. NCPA represents the pharmacist owners, managers and employees of more than 23,000 independent communit...

The correction of non-common path aberrations (NCPAs) between the imaging and wavefront sensing channel in a confocal scanning adaptive optics ophthalmoscope is demonstrated. NCPA correction is achieved by maximizing an image sharpness metric while the confocal detection aperture is temporarily removed, effectively minimizing the monochromatic aberrations in the illumination path of the imaging...

ABSTRACT We investigate the focal plane wavefront sensing technique, known as Phase Diversity, at scientific of a segmented mirror telescope with an adaptive optics (AO) system. specifically consider optical system imaging point source in context (i) artificial within structure and (ii) from AO-corrected images bright star. From our simulations, we reliably disentangle phasing errors non-common...

Avian reproductive system is regulated by the integrated system, the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. The HPG axis involves two major neuroendocrine systems controlling avian reproduction. These neuroendocrine systems include the chicken gonadotropin releasing hormone/follicle stimulating hormone-luteinizing hormone (GnRH/FSH-LH), and vasoactive intestinal peptide/prolactin (VIP/PRL) n...