A new genus and species of non-hadrosaurid hadrosauriform dinosaur, Brighstoneus simmondsi gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation Isle Wight. The taxon has two autapomorphies, a nasal having modest bulla with convex sides, primary accessory ridges on lingual aspect maxillary crown. dentary at least 28 alveolar positions, which highest number recorded in an orn...

(1) Consider the randomized multiplicative weights algorithm on the alternatingly correct pair of experts A, B, with update (1 −). Without loss of generality, assume that A is correct on even days, and B on odd days. At iteration t, the loss vector l(t) = [l A (t), l B (t)] is given by l(t) = [1, 0] if t is odd [0, 1] if t is even therefore the wight updates are given by w(t + 1) = [w A (t)(1 −...

Can playscapes promote early childhood inquiry towards environmentally responsible behaviors? An exploratory study R. Alan Wight, Heidi Kloos, Catherine V. Maltbie & Victoria W. Carr a Arlitt Child & Family Research & Education Center, Educational Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA b Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA c Evaluation Service...

BACKGROUND This article investigated the prevalence of peanut allergy in three cohorts of children born in the same geographical location, Isle of Wight, UK and seeks to determine whether the prevalence of peanut allergy has changed between 1994 and 2004. METHODS Three cohorts of children (age 3-4 years) born on the Isle of Wight, were assessed for peanut allergy and the outcomes compared: Co...

This paper performs an extension to conventional regression neural networks (NNs) for replacing the point predictions they produce with prediction intervals that satisfy a required level of confidence. Our approach follows a novel machine learning framework, called Conformal Prediction (CP), for assigning reliable confidence measures to predictions without assuming anything more than that the d...

Extracts of Salacia reticulata Wight (Hypocrataceae) roots, stems, and leaves have been used in Asia for hundreds of years for the folkloric treatment of diabetes and other health problems. Constituents that have been identified as exhibiting anti-diabetic effects include salacinol, kotalanol, ponkorinol, salaprinol, and their corresponding de-0-sulfonated compounds. Mangiferin, kotalagenin 16-...

A method coupling high-performance liquid chromatography with hybrid ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) using an electrospray ionization source was firstly used to characterize ten major pregnane glycosides including one novel compound auriculoside IV from the roots of Cynanchum auriculatum Royle ex Wight. In the MS/MS spectra, fragmentation reactions of the [M+Na]+ were recorded...