Two recent studies have shown that “cheap talk” is an effective means of eliminating positive hypothetical bias in experimental and field-auction settings. We further investigate the ability of cheap talk to mitigate positive hypothetical bias in a contingent-valuation phone survey administered to over 4,000 households. Positive hypothetical bias is detected in our data by contrasting revealed ...

The efficacy of garlic extract and PGF2α in the treatment of endometritis in cows was evaluated. A total of 26 parous cows affected with endometritis were randomly allocated into three groups. Group I (n = 10) animals were infused (IU) with 10 ml garlic extract mixed with 90 ml normal saline, three times at 12 h interval starting from the day of estrum, whereas the animals of Group II (n = 10) ...

Abstract We develop a data‐driven clustering method to evaluate velocity model using surface wave dispersion. This is done by first computing theoretical dispersion curves for 1‐D profiles of all the grid locations and then splitting resulting into certain number groups via K‐means clustering. The observed are also clustered following same procedure assessed comparing spatial patterns obtained ...

This article announces the first public release of an experimental research tool for variability management, called “CVM framework” and provides an overview of the tool’s capabilities and architecture.

In a recently published paper in JMLR, Tsang et al. (2005) present an algorithm for SVM called Core Vector Machines (CVM) and illustrate its performances through comparisons with other SVM solvers. After reading the CVM paper we were surprised by some of the reported results. In order to clarify the matter, we decided to reproduce some of the experiments. It turns out that to some extent, our r...

Let FN and F be the empirical limiting spectral distributions of an N×N Wigner matrix. The Cramér–von Mises (CvM) statistic is a classical goodness-of-fit that characterizes distance between in L2-norm. In this paper, we consider mesoscopic approximation CvM for matrices, derive its distribution. Appendix, also give distribution (without approximation) toy model CUE.

Introduction: Dental maturation is a useful indicator of growth. Moreover, skeletal maturation is assessed by the cervical vertebrae maturation (CVM) stages, using lateral cephalometric radiographs. This study aimed to investigate the association between Demirjian’s method and CVM stages and also to analyze the diagnostic performance of the dental maturation stages for identification of ...

We previously reported that the time-dependent relative changes of transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER) after exposing four different chemicals to a human corneal epithelium (HCE) model were well correlated to the potential of ocular irritancy. Meanwhile, we recently developed a collagen vitrigel membrane (CVM) chamber possessing a scaffold composed of high-density collagen fibrils equi...