Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract This paper presents an application of the contingent valuation method (CVM) and choice experiments (CEs). We examine consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for different health risk reduction levels of Salmonellosis and Campylobacteriosi...

Effective Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) require that the time-varying activation patterns of 2-D neural ensembles be modelled. The cluster variation method (CVM) offers a means for the characterization of 2-D local pattern distributions. This paper provides neuroscientists and BCI researchers with a CVM tutorial that will help them to understand how the CVM statistical thermodynamics formula...

A lactobacillus-dominant vaginal microbiota has been shown to decrease heterosexual HIV transmission. Nunn et al. now report that a vaginal microbiota dominated by Lactobacillus crispatus is associated with a relative inability of HIV pseudoviral particles to transverse cervicovaginal mucus (CVM) in vitro [mBio 6(5):e01084-15, 2015, doi:10.1128/mBio.01084-15]. The purported inhibitory mechanism...

The aim of this study was to identify the deficiency of uridine monophosphate synthase (DUMPS) and the complex vertebral malformation (CVM) in Iranian Holstein bulls. A total of 144 blood samples were prepared of Holstein bulls in Abbas Abad Animal Breeding Center and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad's Dairy Farm in Khorasan state of Iran. Genomic PCR-RFLP protocol was performed to amplify the po...

This paper derives asymptotic power functions for Cramer-von Mises (CvM) style tests for inference on a finite dimensional parameter defined by conditional moment inequalities in the case where the parameter is set identified. Combined with power results for Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) tests, these results can be used to choose the optimal test statistic, weighting function and, for tests based on ...

Using farmer responses to contingent valuation method (CVM) survey data in combination with actual market data from four watershed regions in the United States, this study estimates the minimum incentive payments a farmer would accept in order to adopt more environmentally friendly "best management practices" (BMPs). Combining actual market data with the CVM data adds information to the analysi...

The Animal Cancer Care and Research Program (ACCR) was established at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) in 2007. This program is built as a partnership between the CVM and the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota to devote the necessary resources to reduce the burden caused by cancer in companion animals and humans alike. The ACCR includes more than 50 f...

Standard SVM training has O(m) time and O(m) space complexities, where m is the training set size. In this paper, we scale up kernel methods by exploiting the “approximateness” in practical SVM implementations. We formulate many kernel methods as equivalent minimum enclosing ball problems in computational geometry, and then obtain provably approximately optimal solutions efficiently with the us...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between dental, chronological, and cervical vertebral maturation growth in the peak growth period, as well as to study the association between the dental calcification phases and the skeletal maturity stages during the same growth period. METHODS Subjects were selected from orthodontic pre-treatment cohorts consisting of 420 subjects where 255 were iden...

BACKGROUND Association of low cardiac vagal activity and poor outcome is demonstrated in the cardiology setting. This has not been addressed in the postoperative setting. Cardiac vagal motoneurones (CVMs) in the brain stem generate sinus arrhythmia. They may reduce blood pressure (BP) variability ('pressure lability'). An alpha-2 agonist, clonidine, was administered to assess whether cardiac va...