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RTaxometrics : An R Package for Taxometric Analysis

This article presents and illustrates the RTaxometrics package for taxometric analysis, a family of data-analytic procedures that can be used to differentiate categorical and dimensional data. The primary output of taxometric analysis is graphical, and the interpretation of curve shapes can be rather subjective. To reduce this subjectivity, one can perform parallel analyses of categorical and dimensional comparison data, calculate the Comparison Curve Fit Index (CCFI), and examine the consistency of results across multiple taxometric procedures. Investigators have been performing taxometric analysis in these ways using Ruscio’s (2016) R code, and the RTaxometrics package replaces this with more modular, efficient, well-documented functions grounded in the implementation options that are used frequently and empirically supported by simulation research. The package provides more user-friendly output and incorporates a recent development known as a CCFI profile that can rigorously test the structure of the data and, if it appears to be categorical, provide an estimate of the taxon base rate. This paper reviews the functions available in the RTaxomerics package and demonstrates their use.
Strategic Interactions on Networks: An Experimental Approach

network influence the equilibrium selection and behavior in a network public goods game. Bramoulle et al (2014) shows that the equilibrium of the public good game can be characterized according to the simple characteristics of the underlying network. Precisely, guided by the theoretical predictions from Bramoulle et al(2014), I explore whether underlying networks can predict equilibrium selection and subjectsi¯ behavior in the controlled laboratory. The data implies that 1) there is some aspect in which agentsi¯ actions are consistent with the claims of Bramoulle et al(2014), but 2) local, rather than global, characteristics of the network are more fundamental in influencing behavior and equilibrium selection. Specifically, I show that asymmetry inside of network is a major factor in explaining the actions of individual economic agents.
Improving Multimodal Generative Models with Disentangled Latent Partitions

Multimodal generative models learn a joint distribution of data from different modalities—a task which arguably benefits from the disentanglement of modalityspecific and modality-invariant information. We propose a factorized latent variable model that learns named disentanglement on multimodal data without additional supervision. We demonstrate the disentanglement capabilities on simulated data, and show that disentangled representations can improve the conditional generation of missing modalities without sacrificing unconditional generation.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR FUNCTIONS OF THE SUCCESS PARAMETER OF A NEGATIVE BINOMIAL RANDOM VARIABLE A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Master of Science in Mathematics by

We use a graphical approach to exploring short exact confidence procedures for the success parameter and functions of the success parameter of the negative binomial distribution. We use the Inability to be Shortened Property as our criterion for length minimization. We find many parallels to previously studied confidence procedures for the binomial and Poisson parameters. We also find several anomalies in the negative binomial case that are not present in exact interval estimation for those situations. Confidence procedures based on methods proposed by Casella and McCulloch, Sterne, Reiczigel, Crow and Gardner, Kabaila and Byrne, and Schilling and Doi are examined and we provide new gapless confidence procedures for the negative binomial mean. We compare average and expected interval lengths for some of these confidence procedures and find some unexpected results.
As the Bee Flies: Predicting Native Bee Diversity in Brentwood, CA Using Landcover and Bee Life History

In the face of honeybee decline and rising colony costs, attention has turned to native bee health and their role as pollinators in the agricultural industry. I compiled information on landcover suitability and bee life history for use in the InVEST Crop Pollination Model. I used the model to predict bee abundance in Brentwood, California and validated the prediction using field-collected abundance data. I then conducted a sensitivity analysis to evaluate the impact of uncertainty on the model. The model predicted bee abundance with high significance, and the sensitivity analysis highlighted two landcover types that were highly sensitive to changes in model parameters: grassland/herbaceous and cultivated crops. These are the two most dominant land classes in the landscape, and contain important resources for native bee health.
The Adoption of Environmental Management Systems Based on ISO 14001, EMAS, and Alternative Models for SMEs: A Qualitative Empirical Study

The adoption of environmental management systems (EMSs) based on standards such as ISO 14001 and EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) has become very popular and the academic literature has studied the adoption of these standards extensively. However, the variety of ways in which EMSs are adopted and internalized has not been fully analyzed and the few studies that have analyzed this issue have focused on the analysis of the outcomes of just one of the main reference standards for EMSs, namely, ISO 14001. Considering this shortcoming in the literature, this work contributes to the empirical literature on the analysis of the adoption of standards for EMS by analyzing the case of the three main reference models used by organizations: ISO 14001, EMAS, and the alternative models for EMSs. The present work summarizes conclusions of interest for the different stakeholders involved in the adoption of EMSs. Implications for scholars and other stakeholders are discussed. It is recommended that further studies should focus on the analysis of the real effects of the adoption of the main standards for EMSs.
Dualité homologique et théorie des représentations des algèbres

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Dualité homologique et théorie des représentations des algèbres Patrick Le Meur
Quantifying changes in groundwater storage using water table fluctuation and GRACE Satellite data, Mali, Africa

Water level data in three different regions of southern Mali in two major aquifer systems spanning various time periods throughout the 1980s and 1990s were analyzed along with climate data to establish the relationship between groundwater storage and precipitation input. The West African Monsoon influencing southern Mali cycled on decadal timescales in the latter part of the twentieth century, and the country experienced a long period of relative drought over the groundwater monitoring records. Mean annual hydrographs indicate that the magnitudes of annual water table fluctuations are similar (3m) between all three regions. The fractured crystalline basement rock aquifer responds more quickly to recharge in comparison to the sedimentary rocks of the Continental Terminal formations. Annual timing of estimated groundwater storage fluctuations in the three regions correlate strongly to GRACE satellite total water storage variability spatially averaged over a larger area; however, the magnitude of groundwater storage flux using a specific yield characteristic of weathered crystalline formations in Uganda (0.23) was too high. Based on these analyses, a specific yield of 0.075 is more representative for the regional aquifers. RÉSUMÉ Des données de niveau des eaux souterraines dans trois régions différentes du Mali méridional dans deux systèmes principaux d’aquifère pour diverses périodes de temps durant les années 80 et les années 90 ont été analysées avec des données de climat pour établir le rapport entre le stockage d'eaux souterraines et l'entrée des précipitations. La mousson africaine occidentale influençant le Mali méridional a fait un cycle d’une décennie dans la dernière partie du vingtième siècle, et le pays a connu une longue période de relative sécheresse qui s’est manifestée au niveau des historiques de surveillance des eaux souterraines. Les hydrographes annuels moyens indiquent que les fluctuations annuelles de la nappe sont semblables (3 m) entre chacune des trois régions. L’aquifère roc fracturé cristallin répond plus rapidement à la recharge par rapport aux roches sédimentaires des formations continentales terminales. La synchronisation annuelle des fluctuations estimées du stockage des eaux souterraines dans les trois régions se corrèle fortement à la variabilité totale des stockages d’eau moyennée sur une surface plus grande observée par le satellite GRACE. Cependant, l'importance du flux de stockage d'eaux souterraines en utilisant une porosité efficace caractéristique des formations cristallines érodées en Ouganda (0.23) était trop forte. Basé sur ces analyses, une porosité efficace de 0.075 est plus représentative pour les aquifères régionaux.
How Can We Feel Happy? The Examination of Relationships Among Happiness, Mindfulness and Forgiveness

The goal of the present research was to investigate predictive relationships of forgiveness and mindfulness with happiness. The sample was composed of 246 university students studying at a state university in Turkey. The data was collected by using personal information form, Oxford Happiness Scale-Short Form, Heartland Forgiveness Scale, and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale. Before the analysis, data was analyzed for normal distribution. Then, correlation analysis was carried out to determine the relationships among happiness, forgiveness and mindfulness. Hierarchical regression analysis was carried out to specify predictive relationships of forgiveness, and mindfulness with happiness. The results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship among happiness, mindfulness and forgiveness subscales. Moreover, hierarchical regression analysis showed that forgiveness of situations and mindfulness predicted happiness. The results were discussed in light of the literature.
Polyphyly, paraphyly, provinciality, and the promise of intercontinental correlation: Charles Repenning’s contributions to the study of arvicoline rodent evolution and biochronology

We review the history of Charles A. Repenning’s contributions to the study of arvicoline rodents, with emphasis on his philosophical approach to the study of fossils, their taxonomic affinities, biostratigraphic distribution, and biochronologic significance. Rep viewed these issues in an explicitly evolutionary context under which gradational and anagenetic change was accepted as the dominant mode of evolution. He recognized a polyphyletic origin of five independent arvicoline lineages, and viewed paraphyletic higher taxa within those lineages as some of the best evidence of evolution. That perspective, combined with his view that the rock record preserved an adequate material history of population-level evolution in arvicolines, led him to adopt taxonomic practices that can be confusing and cumbersome to non-specialists. He used fossils of arvicolines as tools to develop an intercontinental correlation scheme extending across North America, northern Asia, and Europe. A core component of his correlation scheme was the hypothesis of a bi-directionally balanced history of dispersal events across the Arctic Ocean borderland that introduced comparable arvicoline taxa into Europe and North America from source areas in Asia. Within North America, his biochronology was structured around a concept of immigrant taxa, although definitive establishment of immigrant status often was an elusive goal. He worked diligently to accommodate new data into his biochronologic framework, and was actively engaged with major conceptual issues at the time of his murder. Rep sought to integrate diverse data sets and to explain evolutionary events in the context of fine-scale geologic and climatic history. Those efforts led to his exploration and eventual adoption of independent biochronologies for different faunal regions. The establishment of diachronous boundaries of land mammal ages within North America remains one of his most controversial and thought-provoking proposals. PE Article Number: 14.3. 18A Copyright: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology November 2011 Submission: 15 June 2007. Acceptance: 5 October 2011 Bell, Christopher J., and Jass, Christopher N. 2011. Polyphyly, paraphyly, provinciality, and the promise of intercontinental correlation: Charles Repenning’s contributions to the study of arvicoline rodent evolution and biochronology. Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 14,
Improved Attentive Neural Processes

Attentive Neural Processes (ANPs) mitigate traditional Neural Processes’(NP) under-fitting of context data by incorporating multiple attention modules into training, creating a query-specific context representation for each input query instead of the mean aggregated context vector created in NPs. Thus, ANPs boast better prediction accuracy, lower training time, and better flexibility in terms of modeling a wider range of functions. In this work, we further the ability of ANPs to learn local latent structure in the data by (1) adding local latents for each context point and generating query-specific local latent representation via attention and (2) implementing self-attention in the decoder. We demonstrate the performance of these improvements in specifically constructed synthetic 1-D regression tasks and a few-shot regression MNIST image completion task.
Evolution of orogenic wedges and continental plateaus: Insights from thermal-mechanical models with subduction basal boundary conditions

The links between an early phase of orogenesis, when orogens are commonly wedge shaped, and a later phase, with a plateau geometry, are investigated using coupled thermal-mechanical models with uniform velocity subduction basal boundary conditions, and simple frictional-plastic and viscous rheologies. Models in which rheological properties do not change with depth or temperature are characterised by growth of back-to-back wedges above the subduction zone. Wedge taper is inversely dependent on Rm (gravity stress/basal traction); increasing convergence velocity or crustal strength produces narrower and thicker wedges. Models that are characterised by a decrease in crustal viscosity from ηc to ηb with depth or temperature, leading to partial or full basal decoupling of the crust from the mantle, display more complex behaviour. For models with moderate viscosity ratio, ηb/ηc~ 10, the crustal wedges have dual tapers with a lower taper in the central region and a higher taper at the edges of the deformed crust. A reduction in the viscosity ratio ( ηb/ηc ~ 10) is sufficient to cause a transition of the central wedge region to a plateau. This transition depends on the basal traction, therefore, the thickness of the weak basal layer also affects the transition. Further reduction of the viscosity ratio ( ηb/ηc ~ 10) leads to full basal decoupling and the development of plateaus in all cases considered. In most models, the plateaus grow laterally at constant thickness between characteristic edge peaks associated with the transitions from coupled to decoupled lower crust. Where the crust is fully decoupled, large-scale model geometries for both depthand temperature-dependent rheologies are similar with gravity-driven flow concentrated in the low-viscosity region. However, strong lateral temperature gradients within these models, controlled by the interaction of horizontal and vertical thermal advection, diffusion, and heterogeneous thickening of the radioactive crustal layer, lead to differences in the velocity and deformation fields between the two cases, particularly at the plateau margins. The results suggest that simple depth-dependent viscosity models may be reasonable approximations for describing the large-scale geometry of fully developed plateaus, but that they are not appropriate for describing the internal features of large orogenic systems or the transition from wedge to plateau geometry.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCE

1Green Technology, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Myllytie 1, FI-31600 Jokioinen, Finland 2Department of Biology, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistonranta 1 E, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland 3Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Gerda Ulls Väg 26, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden 4CAS Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beichen West Road No. 1–5, Chaoyang District, 100101 Beijing, China email: menghua.li@ioz.ac. cn
Pre‐apprenticeship training for young people: Estimating the marginal and average treatment effects

This paper evaluates traineeships, a voluntary programme of work placement and preparation that aims to help young unemployed people in England compete for jobs and apprenticeships. Applying the method of local instrumental variables to administrative data, we estimate the marginal treatment effects on apprenticeship take‐up and employment. The heterogeneous impacts are then aggregated to form an estimate of the average impact of treatment for all participants. The results suggest that, among younger trainees, participation increases the probability of becoming an apprentice and that this holds across the distribution of unobserved heterogeneity. For older trainees, we find no significant effect on the probability of becoming an apprenticeship on average but some evidence of a negative effect among those more resistant to participating. We find no effects on employment for either age group.
Temporal Development of Sediment-wave Magnitudes

A power-law expression can be used to describe the growth of bed forms (ripples or dunes) from flat-bed conditions to equilibrium magnitudes (lengths or heights) for a flow, where equilibrium magnitudes for the flow can be determined using established expressions from literature. In order to use this relation for prediction purposes, expressions are presented herein for the times required for ripples and dunes to achieve equilibrium magnitudes, and the respective growth exponents for the development of sand-wave heights and lengths. The proposed expressions are developed using the authors’ experiments and published data, with the resulting description of sand-wave development provided by this approach found to be valid for ranges of flows and sediments. available in published literature (e.g. Raudkivi, 1997; Yalin, 1992; van Rijn, 1984; and Julien & Klaassen, 1995). Raudkivi (1997) suggests that time to equilibrium for ripple development from a flat bed may be estimated by an equation of the form ( / ) b e c t a θ θ − = (3) where a and b are coefficients that require correlation from empirical data still to be obtained, θ is dimensionless shear stress, and θc is critical dimensionless shear stress for sediment entrainment. Raudkivi (1998) further notes that no systematic studies of the development time of dunes are known. The present work is aimed at providing additional data and expressions for α and te to enable (2) to be used for the prediction of bed-form-magnitude growth with time from plane-bed conditions. 2 EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMME
Fault Detection and Optimization in Seismic Dataset using Multiscale Fusion of a Geometric Attribute

In this paper, we propose a fault detection method using a multiscale fusion of dip attribute in seismic dataset with the help of Hough transform and unconstrained optimization. Dip is the geometric attribute which corresponds to the dip of the seismic events. First, the dip is estimated by complex trace analysis and then it is multiscale analyzed using Gaussian or Laplacian pyramid to enhance the geometric dip and reduce noise. Dip attribute is calculated at each level of the pyramid and is fused using statistical properties such as mean, median and weighted mean. Followed by dip estimation, semblance attribute is calculated to accentuate likely fault points which involves local multiscale fused dip information. Discontinuity map is calculated from the semblance attribute and Hough transform is applied after thresholding the discontinuity map to extract faults. Finally with the information of local maximum in the discontinuity map and initial detected fault lines, an optimized version of fault is calculated using unconstrained optimization with brute force algorithm. Illustration of experimental results validates the robustness of the proposed algorithm on various seismic sections.
Enhanced Interferometer DOA Estimator for Signal with Known Waveform

It is well-known that the Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimator for signal with known waveform could achieves better performance. However, the maximum likelihood (ML) DOA estimator with known waveform is computationally burdensome. In practice, interferometer is the most commonly used method for DOA estimation as it possesses many advantages, such as high efficiency, high flexibility and easy realization. In this paper, we proposed a novel enhanced interferometer DOA estimator for signal with known waveform and unknown amplitude which reduces computational complexity without loss of too much performance. The simulation results show that the performance of the proposed method achieves Cramér-Rao Bound as well as the exact ML method under most circumstances but enjoys the benefit of a much simpler computational demand.
Enabling cost-aware and adaptive elasticity of multi-tier cloud applications

Dynamic Prioritized Load Balanced Round Robin framework is explained to solve the optimization in different elasticity cloud applications. It generally directed on allocating the load to the CPU planning at balancing CPU load rate. Elasticity of the application is most important process in cloud mobile services for successful mapping on the cloud zone. Elasticity in cloud computing is the capability for the mobile services to change its cost conditions in terms of requirements in relation to operational conditions. Flexibility and cost factor plays the significant task to ability planning in cloud computing. Hence Dual-Cost Responsive on Cloud Mobile Services (DRCMS) is introduced. The elastic application is not efficient on the clear use of cloud mobile resources. Providing cost reduce factor on different cloud mobile devices. DRCMS method is implemented for increasing the cloud elasticity applications.