MS Research Roundup: July 11, 2014

4NP July Aug 11

"Normally, when you eat a high-fat meal, you end up with high levels of triglycerides, a type of fat, in your blood," said Sheila West, associate professor of biobehavioral health, Penn State, who led the study. "If this happens too frequently, or if triglyceride levels are raised too much, your risk of heart disease is increased. We found that adding spices to a high-fat meal reduced triglycer...

Abstracts from Rambam Research Day, December 11, 2014

14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT’14), July 8-11, 2014, Athens, Greece

The CS OER Portal was created with the goal of improving the findability and increasing the use of open educational resources in Computer Science. In this paper we describe the portal’s design principles which exploit the domain specificity of the hosted content and are focused on enhancing the search and navigation in the portal. Distinctive retrieval features are the proposed topical recommen...

Package ‘ label . switching ’ July 2 , 2014

July 2, 2014 Type Package Title Relabelling MCMC outputs of mixture models Version 1.2 Date 2013-12-04 Author Panagiotis Papastamoulis Maintainer Panagiotis Papastamoulis Description The Bayesian estimation of mixture models (and more general hidden Markov models) suffers from the label switching phenomenon, making the MCMC output non-identifiable. This package can be used i...

SPLASH! milk science update: July 2014 Issue

Among many mammals, lactating females may have extended periods of time in between nursing bouts. This is often the case for females who “cache” or “park” their young in nests, dens, or burrows while they depart to forage more efficiently unencumbered by the presence of the young (parents, you know what I am talking about). The egg-laying echidna is an excellent, if totally weird, example. Afte...