This project is aimed at studying environmental pollution using ion-beam analysis (IBA) techniques. The work will focus initially on the analysis of aerosol samples collected around New York State and will eventually be extended to include soil, water, sh, and tree samples. The samples will be analyzed using the IBA techniques of particle-induced X-ray emission, proton elastic scattering, parti...

Genome-wide association studies are proven tools for finding disease genes, but it is often necessary to combine many cohorts into a meta-analysis to detect statistically significant genetic effects. Often the component studies are performed by different investigators on different populations, using different chips with minimal SNPs overlap. In some cases, raw data are not available for imputat...

The article analyzes various aspects related to the meta-stereotype of 99 trash pickers who made their living from the garbage dumps in León (Nicaragua). This group is difficult to access, heavily stigmatized, and lives in extreme poverty. All the pickers in the city were interviewed using a heteroapplied structured interview. The results show that people who obtained their livelihood from garb...

Meta-cognition refers to learners' autonomous awareness of their own mental process and the ability to reflect, control, evaluate and regulate their own cognitive process. Influenced by traditional teaching mode, college students are always lack of the ability of autonomic learning and of learning methods. We should foster their consciousness of meta-cognition using meta-cognition strategy, hel...

I discuss CLEO-c opportunities in Dalitz plot analyzes with the data samples available now and projected by the end of CESR-c run. Using 281 pb−1 of e+e− collisions at mass of ψ(3770) we present results of the Dalitz plot analysis of D → π−π+π+. Using the CLEO-c and CLEO III samples of 5 pb−1, accrued at mass of ψ(2S), we study three body decays of χcJ produced in the radiative decay ψ(2S) → γχ...

Meta-analysis can roughly be divided into aggregate data (AD) meta-analysis and individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis. AD meta-analysis is the traditional form of meta-analysis and fully focuses on pooling effect sizes that are formulated at the study level, i.e. this analysis represents an analysis of analyses [6]. AD meta-analysis typically combines reported summary statistics from ...

This paper thoroughly reviews and analyzes the main characteristics and application portfolio of the so-called Harmony Search algorithm, a meta-heuristic approach that has been shown to achieve excellent results in a wide range of optimization problems. As evidenced by a number of studies, this algorithm features several innovative aspects in its operational procedure that foster its utilizatio...

Losada (1999) observed management teams develop their annual strategic plans in a lab designed for studying team behavior. Based on these findings he developed a dynamical model of team interaction and introduced the concept of Meta Learning (ML) which represents the ability of a team to avoid undesirable attractors. This paper analyzes the dynamic model in more detail and discusses the relatio...