This paper introduces a tree-based model that combines aspects of CART (Classification and Regression Trees) and STR (Smooth Transition Regression). The model is called the Smooth Transition Regression Tree (STR-Tree). The main idea relies on specifying a parametric nonlinear model through a tree-growing procedure. The resulting model can be analyzed as a smooth transition regression with multi...

The in vivo efficacy of streptomycin (STR), doxycycline (DOX), rifampin (RIF), ciprofloxacin (CIP), and their combinations was evaluated for a Brucella melitensis experimental infection in a mouse model. Animals were infected with 2 x 10(4) to 4 x 10(4) CFU of B. melitensis intraperitoneally on day 0 and were randomized to receive, starting on day 7, STR alone at 75, 150, or 300 mg/kg of body w...

Scene text recognition (STR) has been an active research topic in computer vision for years. To tackle this challenging problem, numerous innovative methods have successively proposed and incorporating linguistic knowledge into STR models recently become a prominent trend. In work, we first draw inspiration from the recent progress Vision Transformer (ViT) to construct conceptually simple yet p...

Twelve new species of the genus Cephennium Müler & Kunze, 1822 are described: C. (s. str.) irenae sp. n. (from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro); C. (s. str.) sladjanae sp. n. and C. (s. str.) fallax sp. n. (both from Serbia and Bulgaria); C. (s. str.) viti sp. n. (from Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Bulgaria); C. (s. str.) fairchildi sp. n., C. (s. str.) ivanjicense sp. n., C. (s....

The development of new biopharmaceuticals relies on robust scale-up from small-scale screening studies to industrial bioreactors. Novel SUB designs can prove highly beneficial, although they lack the extensive characterisation traditional STRs. Pall Corporation’s Allegro™ STR 50-2000 L bioreactor range has a unique design square cross-section, with three wedge-shaped baffles. A scale-down 1 pro...

Most Active Queue Management (AQM) algorithms based on control theory have difficulty in obtaining desirable performance once the network conditions or the traffic patterns change out of the presumed ones they are designed for. To address these problems, a new self-tuning AQM algorithm called STR is proposed in this paper. STR has the ability of keeping minimum variance between the instantaneou...

Chinese species of the subgenus Paederus s. str. (genus Paederus Fabricius, 1775) are reviewed. Paederus (s. str.) xinjiangensis Li & Zhou, n. sp. is described from Xinjiang, Northwest China. Male genitalia and other critical characters are illustrated for five other Chinese species of the subgenus Paederus s. str., namely P. (s. str.) socius Bernhauer, 1916, P. (s. str.) coxalis Fauvel, 1895, ...

Tactile allodynia can be modeled in experimental animals by acutely blocking spinal glycine or GABA(A) receptors with intrathecal (i.t.) strychnine (STR) or bicuculline (BIC), respectively. To test the hypothesis that glycine and GABA effect cooperative (supra-additive) inhibition of touch-evoked responses in the spinal cord, male Sprague-Dawley rats, fitted with chronic i.t. catheters, were us...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the effects of a surge in tourism short-term rentals (STR) on housing prices municipalities within Portugal’s two largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Design/methodology/approach study applies difference-in-differences (DiD) methodology by using feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) estimator seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) equation model. Findings...