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Comparison of Sampling Strategies to Estimate Abundance of Double-Crested Cormorants in Western Mississippi

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
We compared 2 sampling strategies designed to estimate abundance of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus, hereafter cormorants) on aquaculture ponds in western Mississippi.
Aaron T. Pearse , Brian S. Dorr, Stephen J. Dinsmore, Richard M. Kaminski   +3 more
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An Evaluation Framework for The Adoption of Big Data Technologies in Higher Educational Institutions

Journal of Information Systems and Informatics, 2023
The aim of this study is to develop a framework for the use of Big Data Technology in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). The research which employed a mixed method approach, is primarily based on relevant critical analysis and literature review of ...
Mercy Ziezo, Jude Odiakaosa Osakwe, Martin Ujakpa, Gloria Iyawa   +3 more
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Process Evaluation of an Implementation Trial: Design, Rationale, and Early Lessons Learnt From an International Cluster Clinical Trial in Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
BackgroundThe third INTEnsive care bundle with blood pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage Trial (INTERACT3) is an ongoing, international, multicenter, stepped-wedge cluster, prospective, randomized, open, blinded endpoint assessed trial ...
Menglu Ouyang, Craig S. Anderson, Craig S. Anderson, Craig S. Anderson, Craig S. Anderson, Lili Song, Lili Song, Alejandra Malavera, Stephen Jan, Guojuan Cheng, Honglin Chu, Xin Hu, Lu Ma, Xiaoying Chen, Chao You, Hueiming Liu   +15 more
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Evaluation of respondent-driven sampling [PDF]

, 2012
Respondent-driven sampling produced a generally representative sample of this well-connected nonhidden population. However, current respondent-driven sampling inference methods failed to reduce bias when it occurred.
Joseph Katongole, Hayes, Richard J., Janet Seeley, Natasha L. Lunel, Tarsh, Matilda N., Richard J. Hayes, Maher, Dermot, Sonnenberg, Pam, Tarsh, Matilda N, Johnston, Lisa G., Hayes, Richard J, White, Richard G, White, Richard G., Lunel, Natasha L, Richard Ndunguse, Copas, Andrew J, Matilda N. Tarsh, Frost, Simon DW, Richard G. White, Andrew J. Copas, Seeley, Janet, Fatima Jichi, McCreesh, Nicky, Nicky McCreesh, Simon D. W. Frost, Lunel, Natasha L., Copas, Andrew J., Jichi, Fatima, Pam Sonnenberg, Frost, Simon D. W., Ndunguse, Richard, Lisa G. Johnston, Johnston, Lisa G, Katongole, Joseph, Dermot Maher   +34 more
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Empowerment of Informal Settlements with Emphasis on Desirable Urban Governance Indicators (Case Study: Informal Settlements of Tabriz metropolis) [PDF]

برنامه ریزی فضایی, 2022
Today, one of the critical approaches to controlling and managing informal settlements is the approach of good urban governance. Good urban governance can be defined as the method and process of managing urban affairs with the constructive participation ...
Darioush Nowin, Ebrahim Taghavi, Bakhtyar Ezzatpanah   +2 more
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Impacts of urban safety net on income, food expenditure and intake capacity of poor households in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia, 2021

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Although measures taken to address food insecurity and income inequality showed notable outcomes, they have continued to be major global issues mainly in urban areas of developing countries. To relieve these problems, Ethiopia started an urban safety net
Kassa Moges Tareke
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Sampling with unequal probabilities [PDF]

, 2009
Since the mid 1950s, there has been a well-developed theory of sample survey design inference embracing complex designs with stratification and unequal probabilities (Smith, 2001).
Yves G. Berger, Tillé, Yves, Tille, Y., Berger, Y.G., Berger, Yves, Yves Tillé   +5 more
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A simple variance estimator of change for rotating repeated surveys: an application to the EU-SILC household surveys

, 2015
A common problem is to compare two cross-sectional estimates for the same study variable taken on two different waves or occasions, and to judge whether the change observed is statistically significant.
Berger, Yves G., Y. G. Berger, Priam, Rodolphe, R. Priam   +3 more
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Attenuation of species abundance distributions by sampling [PDF]

, 2015
Quantifying biodiversity aspects such as species presence/ absence, richness and abundance is an important challenge to answer scientific and resource management questions.
Shimadzu, Hideyasu, Hideyasu Shimadzu (2567326), Ross Darnell (44603), Darnell, Ross   +3 more
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Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for complex sampling designs

, 2016
We define an empirical likelihood approach which gives consistent design-based confidence intervals which can be calculated without the need of variance estimates, design effects, resampling, joint inclusion probabilities and linearization, even when the
De La Riva Torres, O., Berger, Y.G.
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