Et Tu, Torsten? This critique of my Economic Policy paper generates many emotions. It is certainly an honor for my research to be taken seriously by such an eminent scholar as my friend Torsten Persson. And while any publicity is good, a negative citation dominates a positive one. There is irony; I came up with the original idea in a hallway conversation with Harry Flam a few feet from Persson’...

A traditional view of the nature of species holds that populations within species maintain genetic cohesion through substantial intraspecific gene flow and that the whole genome of a species is protected from interspecific gene flow by strong reproductive isolation. Both aspects of this view have been challenged. Reproductive barriers between recently evolved species can be incomplete and perme...

This paper describes and discusses the impacts of the passage of cold fronts on the vertical structure of the Carlos Botelho (Lobo-Broa) Reservoir as demonstrated by changes in physical, chemical, and biological variables. The data were obtained with a continuous system measuring 9 variables in vertical profiles in the deepest point of the reservoir (12 m) coupled with climatological informatio...

Two new species of Dolichothele Mello-Leitão, 1923 are described from Brazil and Bolivia, D. mottaisp. n. from Distrito Federal and the state of Goiás, Brazil, and D. camargorumsp. n. from the state of Rondônia, Brazil, and the La Paz region, Bolivia. Males of the two new species resemble Dolichothele bolivianum (Vol, 2001) in having a small subapical keel on the distal embolus and females in p...

an enhamced scheme is introduced for the solution of two dimensional umsteady euler equations. the finite- volume method of jameson et al. is modified by devicing a pnessune sensor in cell flux calculations. then the discretized gorerning equations ane relaxed in time until na steady state is reached. an appropriate model for the artificial dissipation was also employed. several tests wene cond...

Fluvial nutrient loads are usually calculated through a bilogarithmic regression relating flow and river nutrient concentration. This relationship, however, can be highly nonlinear, due to changes in watershed land uses over time. Also, retransformation of data can result in important biases, and available databases usually do not provide the statistical properties needed to apply parametric st...

ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Wang H, Yang Z, Chang X, Y, Li J, Han Z. Oblique supine position versus prone for percutaneous nephrolithotomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Videosurgery Other Miniinvasive Techniques/Wideochirurgia i inne techniki małoinwazyjne. 2023. doi:10.5114/wiitm.2023.126453. APA Wang, H., Yang, Z., Chang, X., Y.,...

Simple least-significant-bit (LSB) substitution is a method used to embed secret data in least significant bits of pixels in a host image. The LSB approaches typically achieve high capacity. A simple LSB substitution, which hides secret data directly into LSBs, is easily implemented but will result in bad quality of the stego-image. In order to reduce the degradation of the host image after emb...

Applications of non-linear kernel Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to large datasets is seriously hampered by its excessive training time. We propose a modification, called the approximate extreme points support vector machine (AESVM), that is aimed at overcoming this burden. Our approach relies on conducting the SVM optimization over a carefully selected subset, called the representative set, of...

part of its information-gathering activity. The views, conclusions, and recommendations are not intended to represent the views of the Commission. part of its information-gathering activity. The views, conclusions, and recommendations are not intended to represent the views of the Commission. Disclaimer This is a working paper of the World Commission on Dams-the report published herein was prep...