Revealed preference tests are elegant nonparametric tools that ask whether individual or aggregate data conform to economic models of optimizing behavior. In designing a test using revealed preference, however, one faces a vexing tension between goodness-of-…t and power. If the test …nds violations, then one must ask if the test was too demanding— is there an acceptable tolerance for goodness-o...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether surface treatments affect the translucency of laminate veneers with different shades and thicknesses. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 224 disc-shaped ceramic veneers were prepared from A1, A3, HT (High Translucent) and HO (High Opaque) shades of IPS e.max Press (Ivoclar Vivadent) with 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm thicknesses. The ceramics were d...

Reproductive isolation is both an indicator of speciation and a mechanism for maintaining species identity. Here we review the progress in studies of hybrid sterility in rice to illustrate the present understanding of the molecular and evolutionary mechanisms underlying reproductive isolation. Findings from molecular characterization of genes controlling hybrid sterility can be summarized with ...

MOTIVATION The process of transcription is controlled by systems of factors which bind in specific arrangements, called cis-regulatory modules (CRMs), in promoter regions. We present a discriminative learning algorithm which simultaneously learns the DNA binding site motifs as well as the logical structure and spatial aspects of CRMs. RESULTS Our results on yeast datasets show better predicti...

This paper introduces a new image representation for scene recognition, where an image is described based on the response maps of object part filters. The part filters are learned from existing datasets with object location annotations, using deformable part-based models trained by latent SVM [1]. Since different objects may contain similar parts, we describe a method that uses a semantic hiera...