In Memory of Hugh Boyd

Hugh Boyd ( editor ) Population modelling and management of Snow Geese Occasional

Pop u la tions of Lesser Snow Geese Anser caerulescens caerulescens in the mid-continent of North America have increased to the point where they are causing serious damage to some Arctic coastal eco sys tems. A recent modelling exercise by R.F. Rockwell and col leagues (referred to as the Original Model) suggested that increas ing harvest rates of adults to approx i mately twice the average lev...

Jesse Boyd Abstract MS

Elizabeth Boyd

Memphis , TN IN HUGH

In the present study, we further examined (see Kamhi & Catts, 1986) the phonological processing abilities of language-impaired (LI) and reading-impaired (RI) children. We also evaluated these children's ability to process spatial information. Subjects were 10 LI, 10 RI, and 10 normal children between the ages of 6:8 and 8:10 years. Each subject was administered eight tasks: four word repetition...

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Bayesian methods provide an eeective tool for shrinkage in wavelet models. An important issue in any Bayesian analysis is the elicita-tion of a prior distribution. Elicitation in the wavelet domain is considered by rst describing the structure of a wavelet model, and examining several prior distributions that are used in a variety of recent articles. Although elicitation has not been directly c...