Isotopic Variations in Meteoric Waters
The relationship between deuterium and oxygen-18 concentrations in natural meteoric waters from many parts of the world has been determined with a mass spectrometer. The isotopi...
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Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming.
From the Publisher: The past decade has seen considerable theoretical and applied research on Markov decision processes, as well as the growing use of these models in ecology, ...
<scp>genepop</scp>’007: a complete re‐implementation of the<scp>genepop</scp>software for Windows and Linux
Abstract This note summarizes developments of the genepop software since its first description in 1995, and in particular those new to version 4.0: an extended input format, sev...
The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic
An expert panel was convened in October 2013 by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) to discuss the field of probiotics. It is now 13 y...
Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Squamous-Cell Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Among patients with advanced, previously treated squamous-cell NSCLC, overall survival, response rate, and progression-free survival were significantly better with nivolumab tha...
Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?
Abstract An individual has a theory of mind if he imputes mental states to himself and others. A system of inferences of this kind is properly viewed as a theory because such st...
Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change
Ecological changes in the phenology and distribution of plants and animals are occurring in all well-studied marine, freshwater, and terrestrial groups. These observed changes a...
Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules
In a recent Physical Review Letters article, Vicsek et al. propose a simple but compelling discrete-time model of n autonomous agents (i.e., points or particles) all moving in t...
A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index
Abstract The authors propose a new climatic drought index: the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The SPEI is based on precipitation and temperature dat...