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Fall faces
Fall faces reflect the season of color and chill by combining cool metallic eyes with lips that warm in rich reds and organic plums
Plausibility functions and exact frequentist inference
In the frequentist program, inferential methods with exact control on error
rates are a primary focus. The standard approach, however, is to rely on
asymptotic approximations, which may not be suitable. This paper presents a
general framework for the construction of exact frequentist procedures based on
plausibility functions. It is shown that the plausibility function-based tests
and confidence regions have the desired frequentist properties in finite
samples---no large-sample justification needed. An extension of the proposed
method is also given for problems involving nuisance parameters. Examples
demonstrate that the plausibility function-based method is both exact and
efficient in a wide variety of problems.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures, 3 table
Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) Quarterly Report First Quarter FY-14
NASA's LSP and other programs at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) use wind forecasts issued by the 30th Operational Support Squadron (30 OSS) to determine if they need to limit activities or protect property such as a launch vehicle due to the occurrence of warning level winds at VAFB in California. The 30 OSS tasked the AMU to provide a wind forecasting capability to improve wind warning forecasts and enhance the safety of their customers' operations. This would allow 30 OSS forecasters to evaluate pressure gradient thresholds between pairs of regional observing stations to help determine the onset and duration of warning category winds. Development of such a tool will require that solid relationships exist between wind speed and the pressure gradient of one or more station pairs. As part of this task, the AMU will also create a statistical climatology of meteorological observations from the VAFB wind towers
Disentangled cooperative orderings in artificial rare-earth nickelates
Coupled transitions between distinct ordered phases are important aspects
behind the rich phase complexity of correlated oxides that hinders our
understanding of the underlying phenomena. For this reason, fundamental control
over complex transitions has become a leading motivation of the designer
approach to materials. We have devised a series of new superlattices by
combining a Mott insulator and a correlated metal to form ultra-short period
superlattices, which allow one to disentangle the simultaneous orderings in
NiO. Tailoring an incommensurate heterostructure period relative to the
bulk charge ordering pattern suppresses the charge order transition while
preserving metal-insulator and antiferromagnetic transitions. Such selective
decoupling of the entangled phases resolves the long-standing puzzle about the
driving force behind the metal-insulator transition and points to the site
selective Mott transition as the operative mechanism. This designer approach
emphasizes the potential of heterointerfaces for selective control of
simultaneous transitions in complex materials with entwined broken symmetries.Comment: Accepted in Phys. Rev. Let
Association of treatment satisfaction and psychopathological sub-syndromes among involuntary patients with psychotic disorders
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