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Simon Chamaillé-Jammes
The selection ratio (SR), i.e. the ratio of proportional use of a habitat over proportional availability of this habitat, has for long been the standard metric of habitat selection analyses. It is easy to compute and directly estimates disproportionate use. Its apparent restriction to habitat selection analyses using…
John Fieberg, Johannes Signer, Brian Smith, Tal Avgar
Resource-selection and step-selection analyses allow researchers to link animals to their environment and are commonly used to address questions related to wildlife management and conservation efforts. Step-selection analyses that incorporate movement characteristics, referred to as integrated step-selection analyses…
Lara Kallab, Richard Chbeir, Michael Mrissa, Paolo Bellavista
In the Web of Things (WoT) context, an increasing number of stationary and mobile objects provide functions as RESTful services, also called resources, that can be combined with other existing Web resources, to create value-added processes. However, nowadays resource discovery and selection are challenging, due to (1)…
Ming Tai Ha, Matteo Turilli, André Merzky, Shantenu Jha
—The advantages of distributing workloads and utilizing multiple distributed resources are now well established. The type and degree of heterogeneity of distributed resources is increasing, and thus determining how to distribute the workloads becomes increasingly difficult, in particular with respect to the selection…
Luke J. Sutton, Jayson C. Ibañez, Dennis I. Salvador, Rowell L. Taraya + 3 more
Quantifying home range size and habitat resource selection are important elements in wildlife ecology and are useful for informing conservation action. Many home range estimators and resource selection functions are currently in use. However, both methods are fraught with analytical issues inherent within…
Mevin B. Hooten, Xinyi Lu, Martha Garlick, James A. Powell
A suite of statistical methods are used to study animal movement. Most of these methods treat animal telemetry data in one of three ways: as discrete processes, as continuous processes, or as point processes. We briefly review each of these approaches and then focus in on the latter. In the context of point processes…
Théo Michelot, Paul G. Blackwell, Jason Matthiopoulos
The two dominant approaches for the analysis of species-habitat associations in animals have been shown to reach divergent conclusions. Models fitted from the viewpoint of an individual (step selection functions), once scaled up, do not agree with models fitted from a population viewpoint (resource selection…
Daniel W. Linden, Alexej P. K. Sirén, Peter J. Pekins
Estimating population size and resource selection functions (RSFs) are common approaches in applied ecology for addressing wildlife conservation and management objectives. Traditionally such approaches have been undertaken separately with different sources of data. Spatial capture-recapture (SCR) provides a framework…
Rui-Wu Wang, Ya-Qiang Wang, Jun-Zhou He, Yao-Tang Li + 1 more
The fitness of any organisms includes the survival and reproductive rate of adults and the survival of their offspring. Environmental selection pressures might not affect these two aspects of an organism equally. Assuming that an organism first allocates its limited resources to maintain its survival under…
Saba Moeinizade, Guiping Hu, Lizhi Wang
Genomic selection (GS) is a technique that plant breeders use to select individuals to mate and produce new generations of species. Allocation of resources is a key factor in GS. At each selection cycle, breeders are facing the choice of budget allocation to make crosses and produce the next generation of breeding…
Ruby Annette, W. Aisha Banu
Cloud computing is gaining popularity in the 3D Animation industry for rendering the 3D images. Rendering is an inevitable task in creating the 3d animated scenes. It is a process where the scene files to be animated is read and converted into 3D photorealistic images automatically. Since it is a computationally…
Kyle E. Coblentz
Much of the theory on disruptive selection has focused on selection in generalist consumers caused by ecological opportunity through the availability of alternative resources and intraspecific competition for those resources. This theory, however, makes several ecologically unrealistic assumptions. First, it assumes…
Lovis Heindrich, Falk Lieder
better projects Authors: ['Lovis Heindrich' 'Falk Lieder'] The decisions of individuals and organizations are often suboptimal because normative decision strategies are too demanding in the real world. Recent work suggests that some errors can be prevented by leveraging artificial intelligence to discover and teach…
Iiris Sundin, Alexey Voronov, Haoping Xiao, Kostas Papadopoulos + 5 more
A de novo molecular design workflow can be used together with technologies such as reinforcement learning to navigate the chemical space. A bottleneck in the workflow that remains to be solved is how to integrate human feedback in the exploration of the chemical space to optimize molecules. A human drug designer still…
Frédérique Autin, Anatolia Batruch, Fabrizio Butera
Educational institutions are considered a keystone for the establishment of a meritocratic society. They supposedly serve two functions: an educational function that promotes learning for all, and a selection function that sorts individuals into different programs, and ultimately social positions, based on individual…
Thomas Sandholm, Sayandev Mukherjee
We argue for giving users the ability to "lease" bandwidth temporarily from any mobile network operator. We propose, prototype, and evaluate a spectrum market for mobile network access, where multiple network operators offer blocks of bandwidth at specified prices for short-term leases to users, with autonomous agents…
Laurent Musango, Ajoy Nundoochan, Yogendranath Ramful, Joses Muthuri Kirigia
'Joses Muthuri Kirigia'] Background The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) is that every individual has access to high-quality health services without running the consequences of financial hardship. The World health report 2013 "Research for universal health coverage" states a performant National Health Research…
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Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a transformative approach to accelerate material discovery. A critical challenge in building predictive ML models is the selection of representative and informative training datasets from large databases. In this study, we present a framework that integrates inducing points and…
Keith D Farnsworth, Larissa Albantakis, Tancredi Caruso
The concept of function arises at all levels of biological study and is often loosely and variously defined, especially within ecology. This has led to ambiguity, obscuring the common structure that unites levels of biological organisation, from molecules to ecosystems. Here we build on already successful ideas from…