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Sample Size Calculation: Inaccurate A Priori Assumptions for Nuisance Parameters Can Greatly Affect the Power of a Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 We aimed to examine the extent to which inaccurate assumptions for nuisance parameters used to calculate sample size can affect the power of a randomized controlled trial (RCT).
Elsa Tavernier, Bruno Giraudeau
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The moth Hylesia metabus and French Guiana lepidopterism: centenary of a public health concern
Parasite, 2012 The females of the moths Hylesia metabus have their abdomens covered by urticating hairs looking like micro-arrows and causing a puriginous dermatitis to humans known as “papillonite” in French Guiana and also called yellowtail moth dermatitis or ...
Jourdain F. +8 more
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Finite Sample Bernstein -- von Mises Theorem for Semiparametric Problems [PDF]
, 2014 The classical parametric and semiparametric Bernstein -- von Mises (BvM) results are reconsidered in a non-classical setup allowing finite samples and model misspecification. In the case of a finite dimensional nuisance parameter we obtain an upper bound
Panov, Maxim, Spokoiny, Vladimir
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American Journal of Public Health, 2002 AS VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATED IN this 1886 wood engraving, the American campaign against cigarettes long antedated the rigorous mid-20th-century epidemiological demonstration of the association between smoking and specific pathological conditions, such as lung cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Elizabeth, Fee +3 more
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Nuisance American alligators: an investigation into trends and public opinion
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 The population rebound of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis; hereafter, alligator), with the rapid growth of populations throughout its range, has caused an influx of human–alligator conflicts.
Cord B. Eversol +4 more
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, 2009 This paper generalizes a part of the theory of $Z$-estimation which has been developed mainly in the context of modern empirical processes to the case of stochastic processes, typically, semimartingales.
Nishiyama, Yoichi
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The commons and anticommons in the reform of property law: An illustration through the new Belgian Civil Code [PDF]
Pravni ZapisiA property law reform is, in all periods, a most foundational exercise. It determines and translates the (developments in the) relationship of humans with natural resources.
Sagaert Vincent
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AtmosphereAir pollution is a major health-related environmental challenge that affects many aspects of people’s daily lives. For amateur endurance athletes/exercisers, air pollution can cause, apart from the common health issues, reduced performance capacity ...
George Koskinas +2 more
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Mosquito Control in Poland: Pro- and Anti-Environmental Activities
Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, 2014 Mosquito control in Poland is still dominated by the use of chemicals. Although it has been 13 years since the flood of the century, only in few cities and towns (Wroclaw, Gorzow Wielkopolski and Torun) various methods of mosquito control such as mapping
Gliniewicz Aleksandra +2 more
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Effects of Aversive Conditioning on Behavior of Nuisance Louisiana Black Bears
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Complaints associated with nuisance activity by Louisiana black bears (Ursus americanus luteolus) in south Louisiana have steadily increased since 2000, demanding intervention by state and federal agencies.
Jennifer Leigh, Michael J. Chamberlain
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