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The Independent Sign Bias: Gaining Insight from Multiple Linear Regression
No full textAs electronic data becomes widely available, the need for tools that help people gain insight from data has arisen. A variety of techniques from statistics, machine learning, and neural networks have been applied to databases in the hopes of mining knowledge
from data. Multiple regression is one such method for modeling the relationship between a set of explanatory variables and a dependent variable by fitting a linear equation to observed data. Here, we investigate and discuss some factors that influence whether the resulting regression equation is a credible model of the
data.Pazzani, Michael J. and Bay, Stephen D. (1999). "The Indepdendent Sign Bias: Gaining Insight from Multiple Linear Regression" Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.This research was funded in part by the National Science
Foundation grant IRI-9713990
D. Michael Quinn
No full textBlack and white photograph of author D. Michael Quinn, probably around 198
D. Michael Quinn
No full textBlack and white photograph of author D. Michael Quinn, probably around 198
Preventing species extinctions: a Global Conservation Consortium for Erica
No full textPresentation of the Global Conservation Consortium for Erica at Kew, June 8th 2022, based on
Pirie, M.D., Blackhall-Miles, R., Bourke, G., Crowley, D., Ebrahim, I., Forest, F., Knaack, M., Koopman, R., Lansdowne, A., Nürk, N.M., Osborne, J., Pearce, T.R., Rohrauer, D., Smit, M., & Wilman, V. 2022. Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10266</p
Global aksjon for å redde dinosaurtreet Wollemia nobilis
No full text“Global initiative to save the Wollemi pine”. Until an extraordinary discovery in 1994, the tree now called the Wollemi pine – Wollemia nobilis (Araucariaceae) – was known only to palaeontologists as a group of plants assumed to be extinct since the time of the dinosaurs. When a small number of trees was found growing in a remote gorge in the Wollemi National Park 150 kilometres from Sydney, it was the extraordinary first living evidence of this unique conifer beyond a fossil record that appeared to end over 70 million years ago. In this article, Pirie summarises the morphology, ecology, systematic position, and conservation status of W. nobilis in the context of a new international conservation initiative: an ex situ ‘metacollection’ of Wollemi pines. The project is coordinated by the Botanic Gardens of Sydney and involves partners including Forestry England, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, and around 30 botanic gardens across the world, including the Bergen University Gardens. Each garden has received six individual plants representing carefully selected subsets of the remaining genetic diversity of the species. Pirie discusses the future prospects for this and other collections of threatened plants at the gardens
Dissertatio De Censu Augusti / Quam Sub Praesidio ... Dn. Ulrici Obrechti, In Alma Argentinensium Universitate Professoris Histor. ... Ad Examen Solenne Proponit Michael Förtsch/ Wertheimio-Francus Author. A. D. [...] Maii MDCLXXV.
No full textDISSERTATIO DE CENSU AUGUSTI / QUAM SUB PRAESIDIO ... DN. ULRICI OBRECHTI, IN ALMA ARGENTINENSIUM UNIVERSITATE PROFESSORIS HISTOR. ... AD EXAMEN SOLENNE PROPONIT MICHAEL FÖRTSCH/ WERTHEIMIO-FRANCUS AUTHOR. A. D. [...] MAII MDCLXXV.
Dissertatio De Censu Augusti / Quam Sub Praesidio ... Dn. Ulrici Obrechti, In Alma Argentinensium Universitate Professoris Histor. ... Ad Examen Solenne Proponit Michael Förtsch/ Wertheimio-Francus Author. A. D. [...] Maii MDCLXXV. (1)
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Three new rarely collected or endangered species of Annonaceae from Venezuela
No full textThree new species of Annonaceae from Venezuela are described here: Cremastosperma venezuelanum Pirie, Klarobelia subglobosa Chatrou, and Pseudomalmea wingfieldii Chatrou. All three are represented by few collections (in comparison to those of other Neotropical species of Annonaceae). Klarobelia subglobosa and P. wingfieldii in particular are only known from a few individual specimens collected in areas vulnerable to habitat destruction. IUCN threat categories are assigned to these specie
A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Cremastosperma (Annonaceae), including five new species
No full textWe present a taxonomic revision of Cremastosperma, a genus of Neotropical Annonaceae occurring in lowland to premontane wet forest, mostly in areas surrounding the Andean mountain chain. We recognise 34 species, describing five as new here: from east of the Andes, C. brachypodum Pirie & Chatrou, sp. nov. and C. dolichopodum Pirie & Maas, sp. nov., endemic to Peru; C. confusum Pirie, sp. nov., from southern Peru and adjacent Bolivia and Brazil; and C. alticola Pirie & Chatrou, sp. nov., at higher elevations in northern Peru and Ecuador; and from west of the Andes, C. osicola Pirie & Chatrou, sp. nov. endemic to Costa Rica, the most northerly distributed species of the genus. We provide an identification key, document diagnostic characters and distributions and provide illustrations and extensive lists of specimens, also presenting the latter in the form of mapping data with embedded links to images available online. Of the 34 species, 22 are regional endemics. On the basis of the extent of occurrence and area of occupancy of species estimated from the distribution data, we designate IUCN threat categries for all species. Fourteen species proved to be endangered (EN) and a further one critically endangered (CR), reflecting their rarity and narrow known distributions
Interview with Michael Cronin
No full textMichael Cronin (Ph. D. Trinity College, Dublin). Author of the ground-breaking, Translating Ireland, (Routledge 1996) Michael Cronin is the foremost translation scholar working in Ireland today. Cronin established the cultural review Graph with Peter Sirr and Barra Ó Séaghdha in 1986 and was involved in the setting up of the Irish Translators Association and the creation of Ireland Literature Exchange, the body responsible for funding the translation of Iri..
LYRICOS : synthesis of singing voice using a sinusoidal model
No full textIssued as Final report, Project no. D-48-X46Final report has author: Michael Maco
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