the air quality in shiraz was assessed based on a one-week passive sampling campaign.during the first week of the summer 2003, about 400 passive samplers were used in groups of two andthree, so that 187 sampling stations covered all of shiraz. pollutant gases including so2, no2 and btx(benzene, toluene and xylene) were sampled by diffusive sampling tubes. collected samples wereanalyzed and poll...

Title of thesis: Nested Sampling and its Applications in Stable Compressive Covariance Estimation and Phase Retrieval with Near-Minimal Measurements Heng Qiao, Master of Science, 2016 Thesis directed by: Professor Piya Pal Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Compressed covariance sensing using quadratic samplers is gaining increasing interest in recent literature. Covariance matri...

BACKGROUND Incidence density sampling is typically the least biased efficient method for control sampling in nested case-control studies. However, in studies of genetic variants and prostate cancer progression, some argue that controls should be sampled from men who did not progress by end of follow-up. Thus, we examined the validity of relative risk (RR) estimates of prostate cancer progressio...

Coral reefs are one of the world's most precious natural resources. In an effort to simply better understand coral reefs, biologists worldwide continue to study aspects of their biology and ecology. In addition, basic biological monitoring is often necessary to detect changes in reef systems that might be warning signals of reef degradation. It is the intent of this chapter to introduce surveyi...

We discuss and estimate the contributions of the new particles predicted by topcolor assisted technicolor(TC2) models to the muon anomalous magnetic moment aμ. Our results show that the contributions of Pseudo Goldstone bosons are very small which can be safely ignored. The main contributions come from the ETC gauge boson xμ and topcolor gauge boson Z ′. If we demand that the mass of Z ′ is con...