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Semanario erudito y curioso de Salamanca
No full textTítulo tomado de la cubierta del tomoAlgunos n. con suplementoÍndices: Publicados en Tomo X, n. 318 (31 marzo 1796) y Tomo XI, n. 344 (28 jun. 1796)Descripción basada en: N. 71 (3 jun. 1794)A partir del N. 278 (29 dic. 1795) el impresor es: Oficina de Francisco de ToxarA partir del N. 380 (1 nov. 1796) el impresor es: Imprenta de la calle Prior, por los impresores Manuel de Vega y Manuel Rodrígue
Normalized Power Prior Bayesian Analysis
No full textThe elicitation of power prior distributions is based on the availability of historical data, and is realized by raising the likelihood function of the historical data to a fractional power. However, an arbitrary positive constant before the like- lihood function of the historical data could change the inferential results when one uses the original power prior. This raises a question that which likelihood function should be used, one from raw data, or one from a su±cient-statistics. We propose a normalized power prior that can better utilize the power parameter in quantifying the heterogeneity between current and historical data. Furthermore, when the power parameter is random, the optimality of the normalized power priors is shown in the sense of maximizing Shannon's mutual information. Some comparisons between the original and the normalized power prior approaches are made and a water-quality monitoring data is used to show that the normalized power prior is more sensible.Bayesian analysis, historical data, normalized power prior, power prior, prior elicitation, Shannon's mutual information.
Development of active directional antennae for use in small UAVs
No full textFive different light-weight, medium and high gain directional antennas have been developed, which can be operated together with a gimbals system on the UAV or an antenna tracker system on the ground or with both to extend the range of communication and improve the quality of video signals. The antennas are based on PCB to reduce the mass. There are two types of antennas developed for different transmission frequency: Patch Antenna and Yagi-Uda Antenna. The gimbals system are under developing, which will be based on Arduino Micro Development Board, also quite light, and the board will drive a pan and tilt structure constructed with two small but powerful servos to ensure the antenna to point at the ground station
Prior upper body exercise reduces cycling work capacity but not critical power
No full textPurpose: This study examined whether metabolite accumulation, induced by prior upper body exercise, affected the power–duration relationship for leg cycle ergometry
Semanario erudito y curioso de Salamanca
No full textTítulo tomado de la cubierta del tomoAlgunos n. con suplementoCopia digital. España : Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. Subdirección General de Cooperación BibliotecariaÍndices: Publicados en Tomo X, n. 318 (31 marzo 1796) y Tomo XI, n. 344 (28 jun. 1796)Descripción basada en: N. 71 (3 jun. 1794)A partir del N. 278 (29 dic. 1795) el impresor es: Oficina de Francisco de ToxarA partir del N. 380 (1 nov. 1796) el impresor es: Imprenta de la calle Prior, por los impresores Manuel de Vega y Manuel Rodrígue
The Olasky Interview: Karen Swallow Prior on abolitionist Hannah More
No full textKaren Swallow Prior, a professor of English at Liberty University, is the author of Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More -- Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson, 2014)
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
No full textThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
Including design in e-manufacturing
No full textThis paper reviews major issues in the implementation of e-manufacturing, particularly the design aspects. It will examine recent progress, drawing out particular issues that are being addressed. Use will be made of the work by the author and colleagues to devise rule-based design and Internet-based control of machines to illustrate how these developments affect the integrated e-manufacturing environment. A dynamic Simulink model of the way e-manufacture is affected by overall design delays is used to evaluate general solutions for partial and complete e-based companies. These models show how changing to improved designs reduces WI
Prior elicitation in Bayesian quantile regression for longitudinal data
No full text© 2011 Alhamzawi R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original auhor and source are credited.This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.In this paper, we introduce Bayesian quantile regression for longitudinal data in terms of informative priors and Gibbs sampling. We develop methods for eliciting prior distribution to incorporate historical data gathered from similar previous studies. The methods can be used either with no prior data or with complete prior data. The advantage of the methods is that the prior distribution is changing automatically when we change the quantile. We propose Gibbs sampling methods which are computationally efficient and easy to implement. The methods are illustrated with both simulation and real data.This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund
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