The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 61/105, concerning sustainable fisheries in the marine ecosystem, calls for the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME) from destructive fishing practices. Subsequently, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) produced guidelines for identification of VME indicator species/taxa to assist in the implementation of the resolution, but rec...

We have designed a standardized protocol with multiplex-primer sets capable of detecting majority IG kappa (IGK) and IG lambda (IGL) light chain rearrangements in plasma cell neoplasms (PCN). Thirty primers were combined in three multiplexed PCR reactions to target IGK, KDE and IGL rearrangements. Variable region (V) primers were designed to prevent “primer dimers”, provide matching melting tem...

BACKGROUND Geographic information systems have advanced the ability to both visualize and analyze point data. While point-based maps can be aggregated to differing areal units and examined at varying resolutions, two problems arise 1) the modifiable areal unit problem and 2) any corresponding data must be available both at the scale of analysis and in the same geographic units. Kernel density e...

This article studies the asymptotic properties of and alternative inference methods for kernel density estimation (KDE) dyadic data. We first establish uniform convergence rates KDE. Second, we propose a modified jackknife empirical likelihood procedure inference. The proposed test statistic is asymptotically pivotal regardless presence clustering. results are further extended to cover practica...

En este trabajo se analiza la distribución personal de los ingresos en distintos niveles: nacional, provincial y por actividad económica para el período 2006-2016, a partir información las encuestas hogares. Para probar si cambios del ingreso través tiempo son estadísticamente significativos, aplican pruebas no paramétricas k muestras basadas Función Distribución Empírica (FDE) Densidad Núcleo ...

AbstractIn this paper, we evaluate the performance of a spatial multiresolution analysis (SMA) method, that behaves like variable bandwidth kernel density estimation (KDE) for hazardous r...

Title: Making Sense of HIV in Southeastern Nigeria : Fictional Narratives, Cultural Meanings, and Methodologies in Medical Anthropology Authors: Kate Winskell, Peter J. Brown, Amy E. Patterson, Camilla Burkot and Benjamin C. Mbakwem Medical Anthropology Quarterly 27(2): 193–214; 2013. This is the authors’ post-­‐print. Please cite the final version of the article, available at http://dx.doi.org...

The status of universalism has been much debated by feminists at the end of the twentieth century. Poststructuralist feminism is readily positioned in these debates as antagonistic to normative universalism. It is criticized as such: how is injustice to be judged and condemned if contestation and the openness of ungrounded universalism are the only ideals? This paper is a ‘sub-philosophical’ en...

This paper applies multi-objective search based software remodularization to the program Kate, showing how this can improve cohesion and coupling, and investigating differences between weighted and unweighted approaches and between equal-size and maximising clusters approaches. We also investigate the effects of considering omnipresent modules. Overall, we provide evidence that search based mod...