Monitoring Grassland Bird Communities with Acoustic Indices
BirdsSeveral researchers have tried to find relationships between acoustic indices and vocal animal communities to use acoustic indices as a passive monitoring method, as human-derived surveys are expensive, time-consuming, and suffer from observer bias ...
Bethany L. Ostrom +2 more
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Acoustic indices are responsive to local-scale but not landscape-scale agricultural land use
Ecological IndicatorsAgricultural land use shapes biodiversity patterns. In the literature, land use and land cover at both local and landscape scales has been shown to be important to understanding variation in biodiversity in agricultural systems including measures of ...
John E. Quinn +4 more
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External Validation of the Passive Surveillance Stroke Severity Indicator
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques, 2022 ABSTRACT:Background:The Passive Surveillance Stroke Severity (PaSSV) Indicator was derived to estimate stroke severity from variables in administrative datasets but has not been externally validated.Methods:We used linked administrative datasets to identify patients with first hospitalization for acute stroke between 2007-2018 in Alberta, Canada.
Raed A. Joundi +7 more
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Using acoustic indices in ecology: Guidance on study design, analyses and interpretation
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The rise of passive acoustic monitoring and the rapid growth in large audio datasets is driving the development of analysis methods that allow ecological inferences to be drawn from acoustic data.
Tom Bradfer‐Lawrence +4 more
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Essays in Passive Investing and Asset Pricing
, 2021 This dissertation studies topics in Passive Investing and Asset Pricing. The first chapter, "When do flows matter for asset prices: Evidence from adoption of ETF creation in Israel," focuses on the effect of capital allocation to passive investments on ...
Dovman, Polina
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The association between smoking or passive smoking and cardiovascular diseases using a Bayesian hierarchical model: based on the 2008-2013 Korea Community Health Survey [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2017 OBJECTIVES Smoking and passive smoking have been extensively reported as risk factors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Despite the biological mechanisms underlying the impact of hazardous chemical substances contained in tobacco in ...
Whanhee Lee +3 more
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Biotic sound SNR influence analysis on acoustic indices
Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2023 In recent years, passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has become increasingly popular. Many acoustic indices (AIs) have been proposed for rapid biodiversity assessment (RBA), however, most acoustic indices have been reported to be susceptible to abiotic ...
Lei Chen +3 more
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PAIN: A Passive Web performance indicator for ISPs
Computer Networks, 2019 Understanding the quality of web browsing enjoyed by users is key to optimize services and keep users’ loyalty. This is crucial for both Content Providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Quality is intrinsically subjective, and the complexity of today’s websites challenges its measurement.
Martino Trevisan +2 more
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Fertility hormones and vitamin E in active and passive adult male smokers in Calabar, Nigeria. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Smoking is an extremely lethal act and is associated with many illnesses. Lately, major concerns that passive smokers face the same health risks as (if not higher than) active smokers have been raised.
Iya Eze Bassey +2 more
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Behavior of multitemporal and multisensory passive microwave indices in southern hemisphere ecosystems [PDF]
, 2014 ©2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. This study focused on the time series analysis of passive microwave and optical satellite data collected from six Southern Hemisphere ecosystems in Australia and Argentina.
Barraza, V, Grings, F +18 more
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