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Thomas H. Burbine, Richard C. Greenwood
Sample return from a main-belt asteroid has not yet been attempted, but appears technologically feasible. While the cost implications are significant, the scientific case for such a mission appears overwhelming. As suggested by the “Grand Tack” model, the structure of the main belt was likely forged during the earliest…
Queenie Hoi Shan Chan, Rhonda Stroud, Zita Martins, Hikaru Yabuta
Analysis of organic matter has been one of the major motivations behind solar system exploration missions. It addresses questions related to the organic inventory of our solar system and its implication for the origin of life on Earth. Sample return missions aim at returning scientifically valuable samples from target…
Xian Shi, Julie Castillo-Rogez, Henry Hsieh, Hejiu Hui + 24 more
'Wing-Huen Ip' 'Hanlun Lei' 'Jian-Yang Li' 'Federico Tosi' 'Liyong Zhou' 'Jessica Agarwal' 'Antonella Barucci' 'Pierre Beck' 'Adriano Campo Bagatin' 'Fabrizio Capaccioni' 'Andrew J. Coates' 'Gabriele Cremonese' 'Rene Duffard' 'Manuel Grande' 'Ralf Jaumann' 'Geraint H. Jones' 'Esa Kallio' 'Yangting Lin' 'Olivier Mousis'…
Paul Dolan, Caroline Rudisill
Financial incentives have been used in a variety of settings to motivate behaviors that might not otherwise be undertaken. They have been highlighted as particularly useful in settings that require a single behavior, such as appointment attendance or vaccination. They also have differential effects based on…
Yoko Chino, Toshimichi Onuma, Taro Ito, Akiko Shinagawa + 4 more
'Tetsuji Kurokawa' 'Makoto Orisaka' 'Yoshio Yoshida' 'Edward J. Pavlik'] Background: The increasing trend of cervical cancer in women in their 20s in Japan is largely attributable to the low rate of cervical cancer screening. This study aimed to assess the usefulness of human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling among…
Niklas Wilming, Simon Harst, Nico Schmidt, Peter König + 1 more
The interest in saccadic IOR is funneled by the hypothesis that it serves a clear functional purpose in the selection of fixation points: the facilitation of foraging. In this study, we arrive at a different interpretation of saccadic IOR. First, we find that return saccades are performed much more often than expected…
Lauren Powell, Chelsea Reinhard, Donya Satriale, Margaret Morris + 2 more
'James Serpell' 'Brittany Watson'] A considerable number of adopted animals are returned to animal shelters post-adoption which can be stressful for both the animal and the owner. In this retrospective analysis of 23,932 animal records from a US shelter, we identified animal characteristics associated with the…
Steven G. Luke, Joseph Schmidt, John M. Henderson
Oculomotor inhibition of return (O-IOR) is an increase in saccade latency prior to an eye movement to a recently fixated location compared to other locations. It has been proposed that this temporal O-IOR may have spatial consequences, facilitating foraging by inhibiting return to previously attended regions. In order…
Alberto Sandoval, Javier Márquez, Ignacio Cervera, Stefan Cristian Gherghina
'Stefan Cristian Gherghina'] This work uses long-term operating accruals, rather than current, as an accounting measure to identify major anomalies. Past and abundant accounting and financial literature associates anomalies with problems of reliability and assigns lower reliability to long-term operating accruals than…
Stephen Taylor, Ming Fang
This article develops unbiased weighted variance and skewness estimators for overlapping return distributions. These estimators extend the variance estimation methods constructed in Bod et. al. (Applied Financial Economics 12:155-158, 2002) and Lo and MacKinlay (Review of Financial Studies 1:41-66, 1988). In addition…
Luca Scrucca, Josip Pečarić, Muhammad Adil Khan, Đilda Pečarić
Volatility in financial markets refers to the variation in asset prices over time. High volatility indicates increased risk, making its evaluation essential for effective risk management. Various methods are used to assess volatility, with the standard deviation of log-returns being a common approach. However, this…
Michel H Hof, Anita CJ Ravelli, Aeilko H Zwinderman
Background In population-based observational studies, non-participation and delayed response to the invitation to participate are complications that often arise during the recruitment of a sample. When both are not properly dealt with, the composition of the sample can be different from the desired composition.…
Bo Yu, Zongda Jin, Jiayong Tian, Ge Gao
This paper considers the problem of estimation for binomial proportions of sensitive or stigmatizing attributes in the population of interest. Randomized response techniques are suggested for protecting the privacy of respondents and reducing the response bias while eliciting information on sensitive attributes. In…
Min Liu, Jia Zhang, Yunyan Zhou, Shuqi Xiong + 10 more
Background Sex hormones play important roles in the estrus return of post-weaning sows. Previous studies have demonstrated a complex and bi-directional regulation between sex hormones and gut microbiota. However, the extent to which the gut microbiota affects estrus return of post-weaning sows is largely unknown.…