The main goal of disease mapping is to estimate disease risk and identify high-risk areas. Such analyses are hampered by the limited geographical resolution of the available data. Typically the available data are counts per spatial unit and the commo...
Jun 12, 2025 · Whether lactated Ringer’s solution is clinically superior to normal saline for routine intravenous administration of fluids is uncertain. In an open-label, two-period, two-sequence, cross ...
A comparison of the distances to the Huanan Seafood Market of early Covid cases with known links to the market versus cases without known links shows results apparently incompatible with a location model lacking proximity ascertainment bias. The sign...
Using Brownian dynamics computer simulations we show that binary mixtures of colloids driven in opposite directions by an oscillating external field exhibit axial segregation in sheets perpendicular to the drive direction. The segregation effect is...
This article contributes to a global history of relativity, by exploring how Einstein's theory was appropriated in Belgium. This may sound as a contradiction in terms, yet the early-twentieth-century Belgian context, because of its cultural diversity...
Oct 26, 2022 · By the late 17th century, early forms of political parties began to crystallize, notably the Whigs and Tories, which laid the groundwork for the development of the party system in England.
Dec 27, 2012 · Did Microsoft license this component from a vendor, then get greedy and decide to cut the vendor out of its percentage in the next release? Did Microsoft hope to accelerate user adoption …
In the paper we investigate the joint spectra of Banach space representations of the quantum q-plane called Banach q-modules. Based on the transversality relation from the topological homology of the trivial modules versus given a left Banach q-modul...
Recently Dzhafarov and Kon published the paper advertising the possibility to use the coupling technique of classical probability theory to model incompatible observables in quantum physics and quantum-like models of psychology. Here I present commen...
In this paper, we study the problem of secure and private distributed matrix multiplication. Specifically, we focus on a scenario where a user wants to compute the product of a confidential matrix $A$, with a matrix $B_θ$, where $θ\in\{1,\dots,M\}$...
Decision taking is discussed in the context of the role it may play for various types of agents, and it is contrasted with action determination. Some remarks are made about the role of decision taking and action determination in the ongoing debate co...
An alignment is developed between the terminology of outcome oriented decision taking and a terminology for promise issuing. Differences and correspondences are investigated between the concepts of decision and promise. For decision taking, two for...
Recently, Ferrer i Cancho and Moscoso del Prado Martin [arXiv:1209.1751] argued that an observed linear relationship between word length and average surprisal (Piantadosi, Tily, & Gibson, 2011) is not evidence for communicative efficiency in human la...
From all the negative feedback regarding Maia/Define here versus all of the love for Sasha/Align (she does seem super qualified and amazing!), I’m surprised to see the stark contrast in workout comp...
Are large biological extinctions such as the Cretaceous/Tertiary KT boundary due to a meteorite, extreme volcanic activity or self-organized critical extinction cascades? Are commercial successes due to a progressive reputation cascade or the resul...
We present an extensive study of the foreshock and aftershock signatures accompanying peaks of book sales. The time series of book sales are derived from the ranking system of Amazon.com. We present two independent ways of classifying peaks, one ba...
>January 17: * Pwersahan umanong kinaladkad nina Rhian Ramos at dalawang bodyguard ang Driver na si alyas “Totoy” sa condo ni Rhian upang bugbugin dahil sa umano’y hinihinalang siya ang nagn...
As my agency scales, I'm finding my old generic contracts aren't cutting it anymore. I'm looking at using LegalZoom versus hiring a dedicated local attorney to draft a custom Master Services …