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On parsimony and clustering [PDF]
PeerJ Computer Science, 2023 This work is motivated by applications of parsimonious cladograms for the purpose of analyzing non-biological data. Parsimonious cladograms were introduced as a means to help understanding the tree of life, and are now used in fields related to ...
Frédérique Oggier, Anwitaman Datta
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Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE) in Iranian freshwater basins based on subterranean amphipods genus Niphargus (Crustacea, Malacostraca) [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2020 The order Amphipoda is one of the most diverse taxa that globally distributed in all environments and virtually habitats. The members of genus Niphargus represent an important part of the Western Palearctic subterranean amphipoda fauna.
Somayeh Esmaeili-Rineh
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Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2023 Although many information system ontologies (ISOs) claim to be parsimonious, the notion of parsimony seems to influence the debate on ISOs only at the level of vague and uncritical assumption.
Timothy Tambassi
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Games, 2011 This paper presents a case of parsimony and generalization in model comparisons. We submitted two versions of the same cognitive model to the Market Entry Competition (MEC), which involved four-person and two-alternative (enter or stay out) games.
Tomás Lejarraga +2 more
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Elements for an Alternative Reading of Aristotle’s Axiomatics. The Case of On the Heavens I [PDF]
Ideas y Valores, 2015 The standard notion of axiomatics attributed to Aristotle presupposes a set of basic propositions on the basis of which a larger set of derived propositions is inferred. This is known as the principle of parsimony.
Manuel Berrón
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Termite colonies, composed of large numbers of siblings, develop an important caste-based division of labor; individuals in these societies interact via intra- or intercaste chemical communications. For more than 50 years, termites have been known to use
Yuki Mitaka, Toshiharu Akino
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Philosophy of Medicine, 2022 Ockham’s razor is the idea that simpler hypotheses are to be preferred over more complex ones. In the context of medical diagnosis, this is taken to mean that when a patient has multiple symptoms, a single diagnosis should be sought that accounts for all
Bengt Autzen
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Resurrection of an ancestral 5S rRNA
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background In addition to providing phylogenetic relationships, tree making procedures such as parsimony and maximum likelihood can make specific predictions of actual historical sequences.
Fox George E, Lu Qing
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A survey of current software for haplotype phase inference
Human Genomics, 2004 In the past two years, tracking the explosion in data due to ever-improving single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) maps and cheaper high-throughput genotyping technologies, a bewildering array of new algorithms and relevant software have appeared for ...
Weale Michael E
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Cultural Confusion: Parsimony, Social Learning, and Humpback Whales [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2022 In his viewpoint against the general zeitgeist of humpback whale song analyses, Mercado (2022) makes several problematic arguments Although minimized, his arguments are based in parsimony; Mercado is assuming that the most efficient answers are the most ...
Heidi Lyn
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