We propose a "weighted and sample-size adjusted" Kolmogorov-Smirnov type statistic to test the assumption of conditional symmetry maintained in the symmetrically trimmed least-squares (STLS) approach of Powell (1986b), which is widely used to estimate censored or trunca...

Beta estimates for interactions between selected single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in PLCG2 and current use of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) on square-root-transformed percent mammographic density in women not diagnosed with breast cancer and in women with breas...

Comment: 30 pages (including supplementary material), 6 figures

We tackle two long-standing problems related to re-expansions in heuristic search algorithms. For graph search, A* can require $\Omega(2^{n})$ expansions, where $n$ is the number of states within the final $f$ bound. Existing algorithms that address this problem like B ...

Comment: accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity. Review talk for the Amaldi8 conference series

Climate change is expected to exacerbate heat stress at the workplace in temperate regions, such as Slovenia. It is therefore of paramount importance to study present and future summer heat conditions and analyze the impact of heat on workers. A set of climate indices b...

This study examines the Holocene evolution of an inland subarctic permafrost peatland located on the north bank of Wiyâshâkimi Lake (Nunavik, northeastern Canada). The analysis of plant macrofossil...

Recent evidence points to a role of the primary visual cortex that goes beyond visual processing into high-level cognitive and motor-related functions, including action planning, even in absence of feedforward visual information. It has been proposed that, at the neural...

The $\gamma_2$ norm of a real $m\times n$ matrix $A$ is the minimum number $t$ such that the column vectors of $A$ are contained in a $0$-centered ellipsoid $E\subseteq\mathbb{R}^m$ which in turn is contained in the hypercube $[-t, t]^m$. We prove that this classical qu...

Several members of the C-C MCP (meta-cleavage product) hydrolase family demonstrate an unusual ability to hydrolyse esters as well as the MCPs (including those from mono- and bi-cyclic aromatics). Although the molecular mechanisms responsible for such substrate promiscu...