• Implementing conservation measures for data-limited species is a fundamental challenge for wildlife managers and policy-makers, and proves difficult for cryptic marine animals occurring in naturally low numbers across remote seascapes. (frontiersin.org)
  • We found that V1 populations straighten naturally occurring image sequences, but entangle artificial sequences that contain unnatural temporal transformations. (nature.com)
  • This temporal straightening process is specific to natural sequences: the same analysis of neural responses to frames of synthetic videos that contain unnatural transformations revealed that V1 populations substantially entangle such sequences. (nature.com)
  • Temporal probabilistic modeling of bacterial compositions derived from 16S rRNA sequencing. (cdc.gov)
  • We resolve the spatio-temporal development of the disease spread through the population in great detail and are able to find non-trivial correlations of infection and fatality rares with a variety of societal factors. (lu.se)
  • Essentially, racialism argues that human populations are substantially different from each other to a degree which necessitates biological classification similar to or below the species level. (rationalwiki.org)
  • DCPC is collaborating with the MITRE Corporation, leading scientists from the National Cancer Institute, and other CDC subject matter experts to translate existing narrative guidelines into computable format and develop clinical decision support tools for integration into health IT systems such as electronic health records with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes and decreasing disparities in cervical cancer outcomes among populations that are medically underserved. (cdc.gov)
  • but, rates of severe outcomes were comparable with the general GBS population. (neurologyadvisor.com)
  • Couples receiving ART are monitoring the outcomes of these treatments to see whether any differences exist between babies conceived naturally and those conceived via ART. (bvsalud.org)
  • If this were true, the mathematical properties of probabilistic judgments would preclude forensic clinicians from applying group-based findings about risk to individuals. (jaapl.org)
  • The Bayesian models account for factors, such as social visibility, that influence heterogeneous capture probabilities, resulting in more reliable population size estimates. (cdc.gov)
  • Stem and progenitor cell populations are often heterogeneous, which may reflect stem cell subsets that express subtly different properties, including different propensities for lineage selection upon differentiation, yet remain able to interconvert. (lu.se)
  • Reliable key population size estimates are needed to guide HIV epidemic response efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to use empirical methods for sampling and analysis to improve the quality of population size estimates of female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people who inject drugs in 7 states (Akwa Ibom, Benue, Cross River, Lagos, Nasarawa, Rivers, and the Federal Capital Territory) of Nigeria for program planning and to demonstrate improved statistical estimation methods. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: From October to December 2018, we used 3-source capture-recapture to produce population size estimates in 7 states in Nigeria. (cdc.gov)
  • Median population size estimates were derived using Bayesian nonparametric latent-class models with 80% highest density intervals. (cdc.gov)
  • and population size estimates for people who inject drugs ranged from 3400 to 30,400. (cdc.gov)
  • Our population size estimates were larger than previously documented for each key population in all states. (cdc.gov)
  • The larger population size estimates suggest a need for programmatic scale-up to reach these populations, which are at highest risk for HIV. (cdc.gov)
  • The USGS develops reliable deterministic and probabilistic estimates of the hazards that are used by engineers and policymakers to help reduce risk. (usgs.gov)
  • These estimates do not include recommend that CWFPs be included as part of a compre- dental services provided in other settings, such as hospitals, hensive population-based strategy to prevent or control nor do they include services for other oral health conditions, dental caries in communities. (cdc.gov)
  • Mycobacterium leprae genomes from naturally infected nonhuman primates. (cdc.gov)
  • Mixture distributions arise in many contexts in the literature and arise naturally where a statistical population contains two or more subpopulations. (wikipedia.org)
  • By their very design, they depend on relationships established in specific populations at specific times in the past, and these relationships may not apply, or may not apply in exactly the same way, to future populations living in different social contexts and circumstances. (jaapl.org)
  • Data analysis concerning statistical models involving mixture distributions is discussed under the title of mixture models, while the present article concentrates on simple probabilistic and statistical properties of mixture distributions and how these relate to properties of the underlying distributions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Probabilistic models for binary spike patterns provide a powerful tool for understanding the statistical dependencies in large-scale neural recordings. (princeton.edu)
  • EDAs are generic evolutionary searching methods that make use of probabilistic models to learn the structure and statistical parameters of a problem domain. (edu.hk)
  • Despite this, the model largely replicated differences in population-level straightening effects across natural videos. (nature.com)
  • Misrepresenting anti-racialism as the position that "all human populations are identical" or there are "no differences between populations" is a common tactic among racialists. (rationalwiki.org)
  • It provides useful tools that organize and analyze data that defines the frequency of disease variation among populations. (statisticshomeworkhelper.com)
  • The impact of recent healthy eating policies and beverage market evolutions on population-level consumption patterns in Canada is unknown. (springer.com)
  • Particular focus is put on explaining detailed steps to build a probabilistic model and to derive Gibbs sampling algorithm for the model. (eatatnakama.com)
  • BBox [0 0 100 100] Before we get to the inference step, I would like to briefly cover the original model with the terms in population genetics, but with notations I used in the previous articles. (eatatnakama.com)
  • Latent Dirichlet allocation Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a generative probabilistic model of a corpus. (eatatnakama.com)
  • We construct universal models using a Dirichlet process centered on a well-behaved parametric base measure, which naturally combines the flexibility of a histogram and the parsimony of a parametric model. (princeton.edu)
  • Using a dynamic disease transmission model combined with probabilistic model inputs that characterize uncertainty for a stratified world to account for variability, we find that global health leaders will face some difficult choices, but that they can take actions that will manage the risks effectively. (umd.edu)
  • Markov Random Fields (MRFs) and other Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) are suitable for representing structured prediction: they can model joint distributions and utilize standard inference procedures. (umd.edu)
  • in some situations this may be less likely to maximise health gain in the population. (bmj.com)
  • Data were aggregated by key population and state for analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • Probabilistic exposure modeling that used NHANES dietary data from 2003-2004 coupled with duplicate diet and biomarker measurements estimated that the major contributors to dietary inorganic arsenic intake are vegetables (24%), fruit juices and fruits (18%), and rice (17%) (Xue et al. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The analysis includes data for 172 public water systems in Colorado that serve populations of 1000 individuals or more. (cdc.gov)
  • Methods: Data from the Tanzania and Zambia Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA) household surveys which were conducted during 2016 was used. (bvsalud.org)
  • The infection is propagated through the virtual population through simulated social contacts, and the progress of the disease in infected individuals and their trajectory through the healthcare system is then simulated, based on public health data. (lu.se)
  • Is this effect directly observable in the activity of neural populations, and if so, what are the response properties that underlie it? (nature.com)
  • Moreover, whereas ivermectin-resistant parasites swiftly appeared in treated animals… no confirmed drug resistance appears to have arisen in parasites in human populations, even in those that have been taking ivermectin as a monotherapy for over 30 years. (vijayvaani.com)
  • there is human population structure. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Epidemiology is a branch of medical science that studies the distribution of diseases in the human population and the different factors that determine that distribution using statistics. (statisticshomeworkhelper.com)
  • 1 Naturally, therefore, when thinking about how risks are interpreted, two elements must be addressed. (bmj.com)
  • 3 4 From this abstract angle, it appears that discussion of risks and provision of information to healthcare users should address both the probabilistic aspects and the importance and nature of the adverse events being described. (bmj.com)
  • This talk will present the insights of efforts to use integrated dynamic, probabilistic risk, decision, and economic models to address critical policy questions related to managing global polio risks. (umd.edu)
  • We derive computationally efficient inference methods using Bernoulli and cascaded logistic base measures, which scale tractably to large populations. (princeton.edu)
  • Several findings indicate that, over time, the physical characteristics of babies born by ART, and those born naturally are comparable. (bvsalud.org)
  • And it's not just economic well-being that has been declining: Life expectancies of large swaths of the American population have started to decline, as well. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Increasingly inbred and fragmented populations of Plasmodium vivax associated with the eastward decline in malaria transmission across the Southwest Pacific. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Thompson maintains long-standing interests in the issues related to variability in risk for sensitive sub-populations, particularly children, and the potential risk trade-offs associated with policies designed to protect them. (umd.edu)
  • She developed and taught a course on Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Assessment, Management, and Communication. (umd.edu)
  • As far as we are aware this population has not been hitherto specifically investigated in terms of determining their health risk compared to the optimal birthweight population, and not when the focus of that investigation was minor illness. (bvsalud.org)
  • The rationale for naming population units below the species level comes from the simple fact that members of a species are seldom, if ever, evenly distributed throughout the species' geographical range. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Critically, AIR's approach features the industry's first fully probabilistic tsunami module, a sophisticated tool capable of capturing both the complex nature of a tsunami's development and its behavior as it nears the coast and comes ashore (see the text box at the end of the article for an explanation on the generation and propagation of tsunami waves). (air-worldwide.com)
  • More precisely, he is interested in using probabilistic models for complex structured problems with applications to knowledge base population, modeling social networks, extracting information from text and coreference resolution. (umd.edu)
  • Understanding cell-fate decisions in stem cell populations is a major goal of modern biology. (lu.se)
  • We constructed a detailed digital twin of the UK population, with supreme social and geographical granularity, representing 55 million residents in England and Wales and tracing their daily movements and activities. (lu.se)
  • 4 estimate that 44% of the adult population of Scotland were sero-positive for A/H1N1 influenza by 1 March 2010 with the majority of these being a result of natural infections as opposed to vaccine. (bvsalud.org)
  • ART and naturally conceived children do not vary in academic achievement or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. (bvsalud.org)
  • Key populations, including female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people who inject drugs, are more vulnerable to HIV than the general population due to stigmatized and criminalized behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • The EDA-based zone design is compared with the GA-based zone design for finding equal population regions. (edu.hk)
  • In reality, zone design problem is naturally a multiple-objective optimization problem. (edu.hk)
  • Deme (pronounced "deem," from the Greek for "people" and originally referring to a political division within ancient Greece) has been used in biology since the 1930s as a term for a local interbreeding population within a species. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Given that a great deal of epidemiologic research concerning the health effects of inorganic arsenic exposure from drinking water has been conducted in South Asian and Taiwanese populations, for whom rice is a dietary staple, the committee recommends that the contribution of inorganic arsenic intake from rice be considered in interpreting findings from those regions. (nationalacademies.org)
  • In this study, we estimate the cost savings associated with community water fluoridation programs (CWFPs) in Colorado and potential cost savings if Colorado communities without fluoridation programs or naturally high fluoride levels were to implement CWFPs. (cdc.gov)
  • We recorded V1 population activity in anesthetized macaques while presenting static frames taken from brief video clips, and developed a procedure to measure the curvature of the associated neural population trajectory. (nature.com)
  • Our analysis revealed that the early visual system transforms the frames of natural videos so as to straighten their V1 population trajectories. (nature.com)
  • Many - including the new millionaires, naturally enough - don't see this as a problem. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The 2004 ( n = 34,775) and 2015 ( n = 20,176) nutrition-focused cycles of the Canadian Community Health Surveys are cross-sectional surveys representative of the population of the 10 Canadian provinces. (springer.com)
  • In subsequent rounds, key population members were offered an object and asked to identify objects received during previous rounds (if any). (cdc.gov)