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[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Simple Short-Term Probabilistic Drought Prediction Using Mediterranean Teleconnection Information
No full textTimely forecasts of the onset or possible evolution of droughts is an important contribution to mitigate their manifold negative effects; therefore, in this paper, we propose a mathematically-simple drought forecasting framework gaining Mediterranean Sea temperature information (SST-M) to predict droughts. Agro-metrological drought index addressing seasonality and autocorrelation (AMDI-SA) was used in a Markov model in Urmia lake basin, North West of Iran. Markov chain is adopted to model drought for joint occurrence of different classes of drought severity and sea surface temperature of Mediterranean Sea, which is called 2D Markov chain model. The proposed model, which benefits suitability of Markov chain models for modeling droughts, showed improvement results in prediction scores relative to classic Markov chain model not including SST-M information, additionally
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Composite agrometeorological drought index accounting for seasonality and autocorrelation
No full textDrought indices are statistical tools used for monitoring the departure from normal conditions of water availability. Recently, the multivariate nature of droughts was addressed through composite indices capable of including different factors contributing to the occurrence of a drought. However, some issues (like the autocorrelation or the proper definition of the multivariate index) are still open and need to be addressed to make these indices applicable in current practice. Here, a composite agrometeorological drought index (AMDI-SA) has been introduced, accounting for meteorological and agricultural droughts, considering specifically seasonality and autocorrelation. The AMDI-SA combines, through the copula concept and the Kendall function, two drought indices [namely multivariate standardized precipitation index (MSPI) and the multivariate standardized soil moisture index (MSSI)] in a statistically consistent (normal distributed) drought indicator. Nonparametric distributions have been used for the variables of interest and the calculation of MSPI and MSSI, whereas parametric and nonparametric (empirical) copulas are used to build the AMDI-SA. A prewhitening procedure has been applied to the MSPI and MSSI to remove the autocorrelation. An application to the Urmia lake basin in Iran has been presented, drought indices compared, and their spatial variability investigated. Results showed that MSPI and MSSI are able to justify 72 and 89% of the variability throughout the year. The AMDI-SA reflects the combined effect of soil moisture and precipitation, and has a behavior in between whitened MSPI and MSSI. In addition, having nomemory and being a composite index, the AMDI-SAis able to clearly detect the temporal variability of recorded droughts to a greater extent than the MSPI and MSSI
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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