We are excited to announce a new line-up of articles for a new series called Novel Statistical Methods. These articles will focus on several topics, including, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, machine learning, and data visualization, in the context of cardiovascular research. There are recent developments on statistical methods in these areas, and they are being increasingly applied in m...

riving south through Connecticut's Naugatuck River Valley brought back memories. My dad used to drive this road to and from work 30 years ago, when the river was actually more polluted but the circumstances were less complicated. On this night, a week after Thanksgiving, the fog seemed inseparable from the road. We were looking for Derby High School, site of our first town meeting. The high sch...

the present article intends to study badr shakir al sayyab poetries in descriptive – analytical method by place semiotics which is paid attention by linguists. the outcome is that the study of place semiotics assists us to find the place beauties in sayyab poetries and discover the hidden treasures inside his poetry by the cities and villages he met his beloved. this article has been done based...

In the 1970s, schoolchildren in Czechoslovakia were taught that as far back as the year 965, an itinerant Arab merchant recorded the existence of the city of Prague to the outside world. Two things were left out of the lesson. First, the merchant, Ibrahim ibn Jakub, was an Arabian Jew. Second, ibn Jakub recorded the existence not only of the city itself, but also of Jewish merchants in Prague m...

We are excited to announce a new line-up of articles for a new series called Novel Statistical Methods. These articles will focus on several topics, including, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, machine learning, and data visualization, in the context of cardiovascular research. There are recent developments on statistical methods in these areas, and they are being increasingly applied in m...

We are excited to announce a new line-up of articles for a new series called Novel Statistical Methods. These articles will focus on several topics, including, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, machine learning, and data visualization, in the context of cardiovascular research. There are recent developments on statistical methods in these areas, and they are being increasingly applied in m...

In spring 2006, Sierd de Vries and I were contacted by Professor Stive about an Australian surfboard manufacturer, Greg Webber, searching assistance in the development of a new invention; a circular pool with surfable waves generated by ship-like hulls. Soon the contact was established and it turned out to be an interesting research project. The results of research are documented in two theses....

In Hiroshima Prefecture, there are warehouse called “Hanya” which have earth and stone masonry walls used for the production storage of ash. this study, we investigated constitution use ash houses to clarify architectural characteristics Hanya. Sixty-five shacks were found mainly in Miyoshi City, most them along Mihara River Miwaka Town Aribara Town, Ueda Town.