A generalization of Sliced Inverse Regression to functional regressors was introduced by Ferré and Yao (2003). Here we first address the issue of the identifiability of the Effective Dimension Reduction (EDR) space. Next, we estimate the covariance operator of the conditional expectation by means of kernel estimates. Consistency is proved and this extends the results of Zhu and Fang (1996) in t...

CONTEXT A critical question in pandemic influenza planning is the role nonpharmaceutical interventions might play in delaying the temporal effects of a pandemic, reducing the overall and peak attack rate, and reducing the number of cumulative deaths. Such measures could potentially provide valuable time for pandemic-strain vaccine and antiviral medication production and distribution. Optimally,...

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role during magnetic reconnection. They are believed to be primarily generated by tearing mode instabilities in the electron diffusion region (EDR). However, they have never been observed inside EDR. Here, we present first observation of an MFR The bifurcated nonforce-free MFR, with width ∼27.5 de L direction and ∼4.8 N direction, was moving away from X...

Spatially resolved, diagnostic signatures across the X-line and electron-diffusion region (EDR) by the Polar spacecraft are reported at Earth's magnetopause. The X-line traversal has a local electron's skin depth scale. First, resolved EDR profiles are presented with peak electron thermal Mach numbers >1.5, anisotropy >7, calibrated electron agyrotropy >1, and misordered expansion parameters in...

We wish to estimate the associated excess death rate (EDR) or mortality ratio (MR) from a published study of persons with a given medical condition. This requires computation of the expected mortality in the study population. If age- and sex-specific person years of data are available, this task is straightforward. Most often, however, we have only descriptive statistics--percentage male, avera...

Fully kinetic simulations are applied to the study of 2D anti-parallel reconnection, elucidating dynamics by which electron fluid maintains force balance within both diffusion region (EDR) and ion (IDR). Inside IDR, magnetic field-aligned pressure anisotropy ($p_{e\parallel}\gg p_{e\perp})$ develops upstream EDR. Compared previous investigations, use modern computer facilities allows for at nat...

This paper describes the outline of the EDR Concept Dictionary and gives some examples of interlingual representations as the semantic representations for an input sentence.