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Dissecting genetic and sex-specific sources of host heterogeneity in pathogen shedding and spread.

PLoS Pathogens, 2021
Host heterogeneity in disease transmission is widespread but precisely how different host traits drive this heterogeneity remains poorly understood. Part of the difficulty in linking individual variation to population-scale outcomes is that individual ...
Jonathon A Siva-Jothy, Pedro F Vale
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Factors Affecting to Work-Life Balance of Accountants: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Kelaniya Journal of Management, 2023
Managing an appropriate balance between work and life has been an unending challenge for accounting professionals. The study aims to find out the impact of work environment, job burnout and demographic differences on the work-life balance of accounting ...
Nishath S. S., Kamaldeen M. N. F.
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Dealing with Common Method Variance in International Marketing Research

, 2021
Common method variance (CMV) is an important concern in international marketing research because presumed substantive relationships may actually be due to shared method variance.
H. Baumgartner, Bert Weijters
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Accounting for Variance in Machine Learning Benchmarks

, 2021
Strong empirical evidence that one machine-learning algorithm A outperforms another one B ideally calls for multiple trials optimizing the learning pipeline over sources of variation such as data sampling, data augmentation, parameter initialization, and hyperparameters choices. This is prohibitively expensive, and corners are cut to reach conclusions.
Bouthillier, Xavier, Delaunay, Pierre, Bronzi, Mirko, Trofimov, Assya, Nichyporuk, Brennan, Szeto, Justin, Sepah, Naz, Raff, Edward, Madan, Kanika, Voleti, Vikram, Kahou, Samira, Michalski, Vincent, Serdyuk, Dmitriy, Arbel, Tal, Pal, Chris, Varoquaux, Gaël, Vincent, Pascal   +16 more
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Female mice exhibit less overall variance, with a higher proportion of structured variance, than males at multiple timescales of continuous body temperature and locomotive activity records

Biology of Sex Differences, 2022
Highlights Female mice do not show more overall variance in temperature or activity than do males. When measuring rodents, phase of the daily rhythm accounts for a substantial amount of the overall variance.
Benjamin Smarr, Lance J. Kriegsfeld
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Development and initial validation of the multidimensional dispositional greed assessment (MDGA) with adults

Cogent Psychology, 2022
This article presents the development and assessment of the Multidimensional Dispositional Greed Assessment (MDGA) scores, designed to measure adults’ dispositional greed.
Glenn W. Lambie, Jaimie Stickl Haugen, Saundra M. Tabet   +2 more
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Using photographs for rating severity degrees of clinical appearance in research mice enables valid discrimination of extreme but not mild and moderate conditions: A pilot study.

PLoS ONE, 2023
To ensure good animal welfare in laboratory research and in stockbreeding severity ratings of the animals´ wellbeing are essential. The current study investigated how valid raters can evaluate different severity degrees of clinical appearance and how ...
Johanne C Krueger, Maren Boecker, Siegfried Gauggel, Andre Bleich, Rene H Tolba   +4 more
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Evaluation of significantly modified water bodies in Vojvodina by using multivariate statistical techniques [PDF]

Hemijska Industrija, 2013
This paper illustrates the utility of multivariate statistical techniques for analysis and interpretation of water quality data sets and identification of pollution sources/factors with a view to get better information about the water quality ...
Vujović Svetlana R., Kolaković Srđan R., Bečelić-Tomin Milena R.   +2 more
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Internalizing disorders and quality of life in adolescence: evidence for independent associations

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
Objective: To investigate whether internalizing disorders are associated with quality of life (QoL) in adolescents, even after accounting for shared risk factors.
Giovanni A. Salum, Diogo A. DeSousa, Vera L. Bosa, Ilaine Schuch, Marcelo Goldani, Luciano R. Isolan, Stefania P. Teche, Marcelo P. Fleck, Luis A. Rohde, Gisele G. Manfro   +9 more
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Coalition Formation in a Legislative Voting Game [PDF]

, 2013
We experimentally investigate the Jackson-Moselle (2002) model where legislators bargain over policy proposals and the allocation of private goods. Key comparative static predictions of the model hold as policy proposals shift in the predicted direction ...
Christiansen, N., Georganas, S., Kagel, J. H.   +2 more
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