High‐Speed Quantitative Nanomechanical Mapping by Photothermal Off‐Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) facilitates the measurement of nanomechanical (visco‐elastic) properties, but the throughput of such measurements is commonly limited by the mechanical resonance of the instrument. This restriction can be overcome by the photothermally actuation of the AFM cantilever.
Hans Gunstheimer+4 more
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Selective Multiple Classifiers for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
ABSTRACT Existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods based on image‐level labels always rely on class activation maps (CAMs), which measure the relationships between features and classifiers. However, CAMs only focus on the most discriminative regions of images, resulting in their poor coverage performance.
Zilin Guo+3 more
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The Consequences of Soil Organic Carbon for Crop Yield, Farm Productivity and Profit
ABSTRACT Crop choices affect soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, allowing farmers to manipulate the amount of carbon sequestered in the soil over time. This paper examines the private and public benefits of crop rotations that sequester additional carbon across the province of Saskatchewan, Canada using a novel field‐level dataset from the Saskatchewan ...
Devin Allen Serfas
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A pluralistic framework for measuring, interpreting and decomposing heterogeneity in meta‐analysis
Abstract Measuring heterogeneity, or inconsistency, among effect sizes is a crucial step for interpreting meta‐analytic evidence across diverse taxonomic groups and spatiotemporal contexts. However, ecologists and evolutionary biologists often interpret overall mean effects (mean population effects) as consistent across contexts, either explicitly or ...
Yefeng Yang+5 more
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Distance Measures for Unweighted Undirected Networks: A Comparison Study
ABSTRACT Networks are mathematical structures that allow the representation of complex systems by jointly modelling the elements of the system and the relationships that exist among them. To analyse different contexts or systems, methodological tools are necessary to allow for the quantitative estimation of the differences existing between two or more ...
Anna Simonetto, Matteo Ventura
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Reduced rank regression for mixed predictor and response variables
Abstract In this paper, we propose the generalized mixed reduced rank regression method, GMR3 for short. GMR3 is a regression method for a mix of numeric, binary and ordinal response variables. The predictor variables can be a mix of binary, nominal, ordinal and numeric variables. For dealing with the categorical predictors we use optimal scaling.
Mark de Rooij+2 more
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Financial Statement Information and Equity Value: The Role of Real Options Characteristics
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether firm‐specific real options characteristics are equity value‐relevant beyond valuation estimates anchored in financial statements. Using extensive historical data for the United Kingdom, we assess and compare the forecast accuracy and explanatory power for stock prices of equity valuation models based on residual ...
Mingyu (Chandler) Chen+2 more
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Debt Ceilings With Fiscal Intransparency and Imperfect Electoral Accountability
ABSTRACT We study optimal debt ceilings in a political‐agency model with uncertainty about both policymaker type (benevolent or selfish) and economic state (good or bad). Elections generate disciplining and selection effects that differ across pooling, hybrid, and separating equilibria induced by different ceilings.
Randolph Sloof+2 more
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Medical Knowledge Integration Into Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Summary The goal of precision medicine is to provide individualised treatment at each stage of chronic diseases, a concept formalised by dynamic treatment regimes (DTR). These regimes adapt treatment strategies based on decision rules learned from clinical data to enhance therapeutic effectiveness.
Sophia Yazzourh+3 more
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The Core‐Periphery Model Under Additively Separable Preferences
ABSTRACT This paper reexamines Krugman's core‐periphery model by substituting his constant elasticity of substitution (CES) utility with a general additively separable utility that comprehensively captures the pro‐competitive effect while preserving the income effect.
Congcong Wang, Dao‐Zhi Zeng, Xiwei Zhu
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