Estimates of range-wide abundance, harvest, and harvest rate are fundamental for sound inferences about the role of exploitation in the dynamics of free-ranging wildlife populations, but reliability of existing survey methods for abundance estimation is rarely assessed using alternative approaches. North American mallard populations have been surveyed each spring since 1955 using internationall...

This paper introduces a time-since-recovery structured, multi-strain, multi-population model of avian influenza. Influenza A viruses infect many species of wild and domestic birds and are classified into two groups based on their ability to cause disease: low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) and high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Prior infection with LPAI provides partial immunity towards...

Low-rank matrix recovery is an active topic drawing the attention of many researchers. It addresses the problem of approximating the observed data matrix by an unknown low-rank matrix. Suppose that A is a low-rank matrix approximation of D, where D and A are [Formula: see text] matrices. Based on a useful decomposition of [Formula: see text], for the unitarily invariant norm [Formula: see text]...