Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) is a powerful Bayesian method. However, the performance of GPR can be significantly degraded when the training data are contaminated by outliers, including target outliers and input outliers. Although there are some variants of GPR (e.g., GPR with Student-t likelihood (GPRT)) aiming to handle outliers, most of the variants focus on handling the target outliers ...

Based on the survey data of 364 peasant households in Yibin, Sichuan, this paper analyzes the farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage loans. The result indicates a high willingness up to 74.2%, i.e. the farmers are willing to invest forest tenure mortgage loans into forestry and agricultural production. The influential factors on farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage...

We read the publication by Liu (2016) on authorship misconduct with a great interest. In fact, the authorship misconduct is no uncommon and has to be managed. Liu (2016) noted that “Proper authorship embodies honesty, integrity, fairness and transparency, which surely are the very essence of any scientific pursuit.” Due to the present requirement on academic publication to support academic rank...

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by Mike Flskarski It wis like target practice. But this time, tome of the shott went in. With an incredible 77 ihoti at goal, the Albany varsity soccer team wiped out a gritty Potsdam squad by a score of 7-1 at the Albany soccer field Saturday, thus breaking their scoring famine. And for coach William Schieffelin, it was the first victory of the season. "We started being aggressive today. I hop...

research in public policy centre for market and public organisation Student achievement and teacher turnover what is the link?