University of Massachusetts Amherst

The theory of planned behavior

Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images

We make an analogy between images and statistical mechanics systems. Pixel gray levels and the presence and orientation of edges are viewed as states of atoms or molecules in a ...

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python.

Interviewing as qualitative research a guide for researchers in education and the social sciences

The third edition of this bestselling resource provides clear, step-by-step guidance for new and experienced interviewers to help them develop, shape, and reflect on interviewin...

The Incubation Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and Alexander von Humbold...

Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor

The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor1. A fundamental ...

Prediction of goal-directed behavior: Attitudes, intentions, and perceived behavioral control

The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical commu...

ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules

The degree of evolutionary conservation of an amino acid in a protein or a nucleic acid in DNA/RNA reflects a balance between its natural tendency to mutate and the overall need...

Multi-view Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Shape Recognition

A longstanding question in computer vision concerns the representation of 3D shapes for recognition: should 3D shapes be represented with descriptors operating on their native 3...