A permutation test typically requires fewer assumptions than does a comparable parametric counterpart. The multi-response permutation procedure (MRPP) is a class of multivariate permutation tests of group difference useful for the analysis of experimental data. However, psychologists seldom make use of the MRPP in data analysis, in part because the MRPP is not implemented in popular statistical...

Palliative care is increasingly delivered in the community but access to medicines, particularly 'out of hours' remains problematic. This paper describes the experience of developing a model to deliver pharmaceutical palliative care in rural Scotland via the MacMillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner (MRPP) project. The focus of the service was better integration of the MRPP into d...

Crude Maillard reactive product (MRP) and Maillard reactive product precursors (MRPP) of C. albidum pulp origin were extracted by varying temperature 0 C (30-70), time (min) (10-30 ) and addition of sodium carbonate solution (%) (2-10 mL) using the central composite rotatable designs. Equations for predicting objective indices namely; crude melanoidin, free amino acids, reducing sugar and relat...

Con el objetivo de determinar la riqueza y composición los insectos fitófagos asociados a plantaciones aguacate para región Caribe colombiana, se realizaron estudios campo en tres principales núcleos productivos: Montes María (MM), Sierra Nevada Santa Marta (SNSM) Serranía del Perijá (SP). El trabajo realizó 78 fincas, abarcando 26 municipios muestreo. Para captura utilizó método manual nivel p...

P-V curve and V-Q curve (often term as Q-V curve) are widely used for planning and operation studies. The P-V curve and V-Q curve of an unbalanced three-phase system, unlike the balanced three-phase system, may not have similar loading margin (LM) and reactive power margin (RPM) on each phase. Therefore, DIgSILENT Programming Language (DPL) has been used to study the maximum loading point (MLP)...

Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum) is a federally endangered plant species with a large population along Sideling Hill Creek, Allegany and Washington Counties, Maryland. Monitoring of this species is difficult owing to the unpredictable flood events that change the distribution and composition of stream substrates of its rocky shoal habitat. We characterized substrate types in 80 quadrats using tw...

This paper focuses on analyzing extensive results generated from running diverse multi-robot patrolling algorithms with different configurations towards measuring the influence of the variables of the general problem. In order to do this, a statistical technique by the name of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is employed to compare the parameters and identify the ones which give raise to the total ...

To better understand the contribution of understory to biodiversity of a forest ecosystem, we examined the understory in stands of: (1) a Phyllostachys edulis (Moso bamboo) plantation, (2) a Cunninghamia lanceolata (Chinese fir) plantation and (3) a natural evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest (natural mixed forest) in Mt. Mao’er in southern China, and the distribution and diversit...

We suggest to employ propositional satisfiability techniques in solving a problem of cooperative multi-robot path-finding optimally. Several propositional encodings of path-finding problems have been suggested recently. In this paper we evaluate how efficient these encodings are in solving certain cases of cooperative path-findings problems optimally. Particularly, a case where robots have mult...